Centre for Health Promotion
University of Toronto
The Banting Institute
100 College Street, Rm 207
Toronto, ON
M5G 1L5
Tel: 416-978-1809
Fax: 416-971-1365
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   EInfo Update Spring 2002

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Acting Director’s Remarks

I feel a bit like a duck with a serene expression on her face that's paddling like crazy underneath  the water. The time since our last newsletter has been eventful, although you may not see many  changes at the Centre -- yet.

The Task Force on the Centre for Health Promotion has been meeting regularly since the end of  November and submitted its final report to Harvey Skinner, Department of Public Health Sciences (PHS) in early May. Dr. Skinner and his department have reaffirmed their commitment  to support the Centre and will renew their search for a topnotch researcher/director. Details of the major thrusts of the report are included in this newsletter. In brief, the task force recommended that the Centre continue as a strong community agency-university partnership. They also recommended that all of the Centre's endeavours focus on knowledge development in health promotion. This includes the development of theory and conceptual frameworks, development of best practices and the transfer of knowledge into practice and policy -- done within a set of health promotion values and principles, evaluated and tested in community and practice settings. The Centre will continue to play a key role in the education of graduate students as well as in the continuing education of practitioners. The Centre will also practice what it preaches and use participatory and collaborative approaches in all phases of its work.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the members of the Task Force for their hard  work and support for the Centre. Special thanks go to Ilze Kalnins who put in a huge number of hours writing and reworking the report. For her optimism, leadership and perseverance, I am very grateful.

As we move into the next phase of work for the Centre, I (along with others) will be meeting with community agencies and organizations, looking for partners to contribute core funding support to the Centre. In addition, Harvey Skinner will be setting up a steering committee with the involvement of PHS faculty, community partners and others to develop a workplan and refine the long term vision for the Centre. There will be a delay of at least a year before PHS can put the finances together to fill the researcher/director position. Thus the current interim period will be extended -- provided community partner funding can be obtained.

I am excited that the task force recommended that the Centre continue its community-university partnership, particularly because this will mean a greater role for community partners in funding and defining the overall focus and direction of the Centre. The Centre will be a model of this partnership in its own structures as well as individual research projects. I will also turn my attention to engaging other members of the university community, and many of you, in the Centre's work.

I will be setting up a small group to review the role of members and associates of the Centre and to set out clear criteria and expectations for this group of individuals. If any of you feel strongly about this issue and would like to be part of this small group, please let me know before May 31, 2002.

In other news, the National Crime Prevention Community Mobilization Program has moved out of the Centre and into space at Justice Canada. We are sorry to see them go -- I enjoyed their youthful energy and they provided work opportunities for two of our health promotion students. This summer, the Centre's Suite 207 offices will house me (my contract has been extended until the end of September), Andrea Norquay (working on a practicum), Dr. Mohammed Poureslami (a visiting scholar from Iran, and director of a health promotion program in the process of establishing a health promotion research centre in Iran University of Medical Sciences), Barry MacDonald (our Business Officer), Noelle Gadon (our one day a week administrative support), Michael Goodstadt (part-time) and, possibly, the return of Irv.

The team at the Centre is always glad to see visitors. I will keep you posted about what's happening at the Centre in September.

Have a great summer!

Suzanne F. Jackson, Acting Director

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Feature: Highlights of the Centre for Health Promotion Task Force

Report

The Task Force concluded that PHS, the Faculty of Medicine, and the University of Toronto need to give a high profile to health promotion. The ongoing changes in the health care system, the aging population, the spread of diseases that once were thought to be conquered and the appearance of new diseases are complex issues that affect all of society and require combined theoretical and applied research in health promotion and its dissemination to public health practice. Population health research and approaches need to be complemented with health promotion and social science concepts.

Therefore, the Task Force recommended that the Centre continue to exist with a renewed mandate to consolidate a University-Community Agency Partnership. Vision

The Centre is envisioned as a University-Community Agency Partnership. This focus builds on the activities and strengths of the past, when the Centre worked directly with its partners to identify the research question, develop a research project, conduct the research and then share the findings. Using this approach, the Centre has developed models from the information collected, conducted reality checks with respect to practice and engaged in dissemination activities such as the publication of a tool for practitioners, development of positive community indicators, publication of an academic book and presentation of the material in workshops and the Health Promotion Summer School (HPSS). The capacity to go full circle is a unique strength arising from academic-practitioner partnerships. The focus of the Centre on knowledge development will be expressed through research, education and knowledge transfer activities.

Research: The Centre is envisioned as developing a research program of high quality. Projects would be developed in partnership with community agencies and would focus on applied research addressing a health promotion topic or a health topic using a health promotion approach.

There would be an emphasis on community-based participatory research, which is in contrast to the theoretical development of health promotion concepts and methodology expected of academic faculty. The research would be built on multi disciplinary teams and community agency partnerships.

Considerable planning with all stakeholders, in the context of funding opportunities, would be necessary to refine the substantive areas to which this process could be applied. Although the specific research projects would reflect the interests of the community partners, the unique contribution of the Centre is the application of a health promotion lens and a participatory approach. In addition, the experiences, results and theories developed by these specific research projects could be brought together around ongoing key health promotion issues such as (a) What are the characteristics of communities that support health? (b) Which interventions are effective? and (c) What are effective processes of knowledge transfer?

Education: The Centre is envisioned as having strong connections to the PHS graduate programs as teachers and supervisors and as a resource for student practica though community links. The community link is necessary for a credible professional program and is extremely important for job opportunities after graduation, akin to publications in a peer-refereed journal for research degree students. The Centre's continuing education activities such as the HPSS, workshops and symposia are highly valued and in demand as opportunities for the dissemination of research knowledge. This demand will stem from a shortened professional degree program and the fact that throughout Ontario, public health departments are hiring new staff with little training and experience in health promotion. Although community capacity to support the Centre has decreased with the abolition of the teaching health units and reorganization of Toronto Public Health, the need for links with research, evaluation expertise, and training has not. In collaboration with its partners, the Centre would continue to emphasize professional continuing education.

Transfer of Knowledge: The work of the Centre is envisioned as clearly concerned with the transfer of knowledge into practice and policy. In collaboration with its community agency partners, the Centre would identify special activities or products that would help bridge the gap between research and application in practice. These knowledge transfer products may include special reports, synthesis papers, and research briefs as well as peer-reviewed publications. This is in contrast to the virtually exclusive emphasis on peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals expected of academic faculty. Transfer of knowledge so that it influences practice and policy is problematic for academic researchers who lack the time, skills, and reward systems for such activities. Yet funders increasingly expect it. The Centre would continue to lead in the organization of conferences that span academic and community interests. In addition, the Centre could be interested in researching the process of knowledge transfer and health communications and exploring what combinations of strategies work best.

Proposed Funding

Sustained funding for Centre must be found from community agency partners who believe that the Centre gives added value to their work. Without such funding the Centre cannot exist. It is hoped that community agencies can equal the university's contribution.

Proposed Administration/Governance

The Centre would exist as a clear partnership between PHS and community agency funders. It would be a separate entity from PHS, albeit integrated with it administratively and financially. On the basis of joint funding, PHS, the Centre and the community agency partners would jointly set the research agenda and annual expectations of productivity and plan for other Centre activities and products. This would require joint strategic planning between PHS, the Centre, and community agency partners to develop

  • clearly articulated focus in research, education, and knowledge transfer activities;
  • criteria for evaluation of work accomplished; and
  • an administrative structure that gives voice to the University and its Community Agency Partners.

Next Steps

PHS has agreed that health promotion was an important focus of the department and that the future of the Centre will be built on a university-community partnership. Although the department is committed to contributing a tenure-track position in health promotion to support the research of the Centre, it cannot fill this position until at least 2003-2004. Given the current financial situation of the Centre (no funding for the acting director after September 2002), there is a need to introduce an interim or short-term plan for the Centre.

In the short-term plan an acting director would be required for two years (supported by community contributions), a steering committee would be required to develop a long-term vision and the Centre would continue to operate its internal units and establish research teams and seek grant funding. Over the long term, a permanent director will be selected and the PHS faculty position will be filled.

Task Force Members

Ilze Kalnins, Chair, PHS faculty; Jim Armstrong, Wellesley Central Health Corporation; Connie Clement, Ontario Prevention Clearing House; Peter Coleridge, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Roberta Ferrence, Director, Ontario Tobacco Research Unit; John Garcia, Cancer Care Ontario; John Hastings, Professor Emeritus; Suzanne Jackson, Centre Acting Director; Liz Janzen, Toronto Public Health Department; David Korn, PHS faculty; Barry MacDonald, Centre Administrative Officer; Jack Shapiro, Community Member

Ilze Kalnins and Suzanne F. Jackson

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Feature: Highlights of Community Input on the Future of the Centre

In the process of preparing input for the task force, many friends and staff of the Centre were consulted. The unit directors (Fran Perkins, Larry Hershfield, Rebecca Renwick, Roberta Ferrence, and Michael Goodstadt) were an ongoing support group providing feedback to the acting director throughout the last seven months. Special sessions were held for Centre staff and consultants as well as at the AGM. Input on issues and directions in health promotion was also received via small group sessions at the International Symposium in May 2001. Here are the main points raised by these groups:

  • need adequate number of core human resources
  • need sustainable long-term core funding
  • keep core work of Centre based on the Ottawa charter
  • have a clear mission and vision or focus
  • have mutual respect and clarity of roles with UoT
  • have a health promoting organizational culture
  • act as a bridge between academia and the community
  • be recognized as an international leader in health promotion
  • be a leader in health promotion education and training for practice
  • be a leader in evidence development and dissemination
  • increase community/academic partnerships, foster collaboration among researchers,
  • practitioners and community members
  • get involved in knowledge transfer
  • be involved in evaluation and evidence development

In addition, a survey was sent out to 78 associates and friends of the Centre. We received 13 replies (response rate of 17%) and the respondents wanted the Centre to continue to produce a newsletter, maintain a website, and hold an annual summer school. Most respondents' level of involvement in the Centre was limited to reading the newsletter, although some expressed an interest in becoming more involved if they knew of opportunities. Despite such limited involvement, the kind of impact the Centre for Health Promotion had on these respondents was wide-ranging:

  • initiated and facilitated a community project
  • referred graduate students to Centre for supervision
  • had access to researchers and other experts
  • broadened understanding of health promotion
  • discussions on research methodology and findings stimulated the growth of public health
  • interventions
  • is source of resources and consultation
  • through support and dialogue gave respondent the confidence and conviction to press on with
  • developing a health promotion department at a large health care facility
  • gave respondent greater understanding of the different aspects of health promotion were then
  • carried forward by contributing a health promotion perspective on other committees
  • enhanced respondent's work on committees that involved individuals representing different
  • sectors.
  • relied on consultation from Centre in designing, implementing and evaluating projects that
  • embedded
  • health promotion principles

When asked "what would you lose or miss if Centre ceased to exist?" respondents replied

  • the leading institution of academic health promotion in Canada;
  • excellence in health promotion research; the excellent work that the Centre has produced;
  • credibility for health promotion in organizations and health care settings;
  • confirmation that health promotion is an issue at the government level and in the community;
  • access to an international perspective;
  • ability to be involved with individuals from different sectors;
  • information, support, colleagues, contacts, and a fine local source for a range of information and expertise; and
  • opportunity to consult Centre staff and associates about research or project activities from a health promotion perspective.

Other respondents noted that if the Centre ceased to exist, it would be a major setback in health promotion in Canada and that they already miss the comradery that used to be found through the network of agencies associated with the Centre as well as involvement in planning and advisory activities. In general, answers to this question reflected the general importance of the Centre as a flagship for health promotion and its importance as a catalyst for ideas and expertise.

Suggestions for the future of the Centre included

  • involve members more actively;
  • don't lose touch with those involved in the past;
  • increase the dialogue to a wider sector and aggressively engage others;
  • play a more effective advocacy role;
  • increase Francophone component;
  • do research in collaboration with community;
  • update website, create resource library, produce a weekly newsletter;
  • to link academic, practice and policy domains;
  • support the Centre as institution; and
  • be a health promotion model.

All of this information was summarized and presented to the task force. Your input was much appreciated.

Suzanne F. Jackson

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News from the Centre

Work on Homelessness, Housing and Health Promotion

Andrea Norquay, a first year Master's student in health promotion is doing a practicum this summer with the Centre. Her task is to help us define a potential research topic in the area of homelessness, housing and health promotion. If you are interested in being part of a group to explore this over the next few months, please get in touch with Suzanne Jackson or Andrea Norquay at 416-978-1100, suzanne.jackson@utoronto.ca or andrea.norquay@utoronto.ca.

Suzanne F. Jackson

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News from the Centre's Funded Units

Ontario Tobacco Research Unit

March brought to fruition a major collaborative project of various partners of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy (OTS), including the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU). Members of the Tobacco Cluster group, resource centres and key associates of the OTS, organized the Ontario Tobacco Control Conference held in Toronto on March 21-23 . OTRU's Mel Martin chaired the organizing committee. The conference profiled tobacco control progress and issues in Ontario since the renewal of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy and provided a forum for public health professionals, policymakers, advocates and researchers to share their knowledge and experiences. OTRU's principal investigators and staff presented research findings on a variety of topics including issues related to environmental tobacco smoke in home, workplace and outdoor environments; smoking prevalence among special populations; mortality and morbidity attributable to tobacco use; the role of health care professionals in smoking cessation; and other policy related research. A conference breakfast hosted by OTRU also provided an opportunity to acknowledge recipients of their Studentship Awards.

Marilyn Pope

International Health Promotion Unit

International Union for Health Promotion and Education
The International Union for Health Promotion (IUHPE) North America Region (NARO) has its Canadian site office at Centre. A one-day meeting was held in April in Victoria, in partnership with CIHR Institute for Aboriginal Health, The National Aboriginal Health Organisation (NAHO) and Health Canada (Aboriginal Health) and IUHPE. This meeting was held to bring People involved in aboriginal health research together in preparation for the 18th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion in Australia, April 2004. A group was formed to work together and with other networks to foster collaboration in this field and prepare for the conference. In addition they held a workshop on this topic at the 6th National Health Promotion Conference. IUHPE is also undertaking a second phase of an Evidence of Health Promotion Effectiveness project. The Canadian Board members of IUHPE/ NARO met to explore their involvement in this world wide project and will work closely with people in the wider North American and Caribbean region.

Building Capacity in Applying Health Promotion as a Cross-Cutting Tool for Health Planning and Program Development in the Caribbean
Fran Perkins and Paulina Salamo participated in an advisory committee meeting in Barbados in mid-January 2002 to finalize training modules and plan a week-long training event. As part of this PAHO-funded endeavour, Caribbean professionals and from health and other sectors will be trained in health promotion, healthy public policy and the incorporation of health promotion into planning and evaluation activities. An advisory committee, spearheaded by the PAHO-Caribbean Program Cooperation Office in Barbados, has been guiding this initiative. committee members include representatives from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the British Virgin Islands, Ministry of Health of St. Lucia, University of West Indies and the Centre, which is taking the lead in the development of the training modules.

School of Public Health, Cear , Brazil
As part of a Department for International Development (UK) project with Secretaria de Sa£de of Fortaleza, Paulina Salamo worked with colleagues at the School of Public Health of Cear in Brazil on the development of a health promotion curriculum for the school. The week-long visit in mid-February 2002 was very fruitful, as key competencies for students, enhancements for current courses and potential clients were identified. The visit also built on previous exchanges between the two institutions.

Evaluation of Healthy Municipalities
Paulina Salamo participated in a Core Evaluation Group meeting of this PAHO-CDC initiative April 1-3, 2002, in Washington, D.C. They discussed the draft toolkit for the evaluation of healthy municipalities' endeavours as well as a plan for pilot testing the toolkit in different countries in the Americas. Participants in this meeting included representatives from Brazil, Canada, Colombia and the U.S.. Suzanne Jackson will be meeting with the Policy Group in mid-May in Brazil. The Centre for Health Promotion applied for and received funding to host the next meeting of both the Core Evaluation Group and the Policy Group in Toronto in late summer or fall.

International Involvements of the Acting Director
Suzanne Jackson is sitting on the Scientific Advisory Committee planning the Health Promotion Forum in the Americas in Santiago, Chile, October 20-24, 2002. This forum is a follow-up to the WHO Fifth Global Conference on Health Promotion in Mexico City, June 2000. It will review the progress made in the Americas in strengthening health promotion over the last two years.

Fran Perkins & Suzanne F. Jackson

Best Practices and Evaluation Unit

The Annual Stakeholders Meeting of the Best Practices Project was held March 26 with about 70 enthusiastic participants. In addition to a hands-on exploration of best practices decision-making factors, small groups discussed their experiences related to finding and using evidence, including challenges, suggestions and priorities for the future. Reports were presented by the Best Practices partners, the Francophone project, Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice field sites (on their experiences using the Interactive Domain Model [IDM] Evidence Framework), and the federal Diabetes Strategy (on their experience using the general IDM Framework for a literature review). Reports were provided on the Health Canada-funded IDM Facilitation Resource Package, and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care funded the Using Research in Practice Learning Module. Participants received drafts of the IDM Manual. The improved and expanded IDM Manual is now available on the Centre's website in Word and PDF at http://www.utoronto.ca/Centre/bestp.html. Sections include Introduction and Basics, with a foreword by Irv Rootman; Values, Goals and Ethics; Evidence Framework; Research and Evaluation; Working Through the IDM Framework; Workshops; Resources for Health Promotion (annotated, ranging from heath promotion-related journals to databases and more); and a number of others.

Barbara Kahan

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News from the Centre's Working Groups and Committees

Cancer Prevention Interest Group (CPIG)

The group has held several meeting to explore and discuss cancer prevention initiatives related to the precautionary principle at the provincial and national levels. Terry Sullivan, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), met with the group to discuss the CCO directions and strategy on cancer prevention. Following his presentation, Trevor Hancock, who is leading the Delphi study, elaborated on the process underway. At the May meeting, we hope to have a representative from the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) to discuss their most welcome new policy on the use of the precautionary principle relating to primary prevention with regard to pesticides. This information was presented at the recent symposium on pesticides held in Caledon, Ontario by Dr. Barbara Wylie of the CCS. Several members of the CPIG are involved with the Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition (Environmental and Occupational sector), the organization that evolved from the Task Force Report at the City of Toronto level. Please see http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/health for the Top Ten Carcinogens Report and http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/health/resources/tcpc/index.htm (click on "Action plan" to follow links) for the environmental report.

CCO, at the request of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, is leading the development of a broad provincial plan -- Cancer 2020 -- for cancer prevention and early detection. This plan will result in the development of ten- and twenty-year targets for cancer reduction, and the identification of the means to reach those targets. The plan will be completed by Fall 2002. Terry Sullivan, vice-president and head of the Division of Preventive Oncology, is the chair of an external steering committee overseeing the development of the plan. The steering committee includes representatives from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and from provincial organizations such as the CCS, the Ontario College of Family Physicians, the Ontario Public Health Association and the Ontario Network for Cancer Prevention as well as cancer patients. The steering committee is using an innovative "futures" approach for the planning exercise, which involves the development of two cancer-focused alternative societal futures for the years 2010 and 2020. Staff in CCO's Division of Preventive Oncology have been preparing background materials for this exercise.

In early- to mid-May 2002, the project team will facilitate regional consultations across the province to present and discuss the scenarios and projections. These consultations, hosted by CCO regional cancer prevention and screening networks, will include a broad base of community stakeholders involved in cancer prevention. Once the regional meetings have concluded, we will publish a provincial benchmark document for cancer prevention planning and reporting. For more information call or e-mail Terry Sullivan at terry.sullivan@cancercare.on.ca, 416-971-5100 x1131, or Helen Angus at helen.angus@cancercare.on.ca or x2241.

Author Sara Rosenthal is a member of the CPIG group. Her new book, Stopping Cancer at the Source, is based on the Recommendations of Ontario Task Force on the Primary Prevention of Cancer published by the Ontario Government in 1995. For more information visit http://www.sarahealth.com.

Dorothy Goldin-Rosenberg

Healthy University Group

Suzanne Jackson and Jody MacDonald will be trying to get the University of Toronto to enshrine health university concepts in the university's mission. A Healthy University group in Brazil has been in touch with our group looking for help.

Suzanne F. Jackson

Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research

The Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research (CCHPR) met in Victoria, B.C., at the beginning of April. The major item for discussion was a background document written to help prepare a framework agreement with Health Canada to fund the Consortium. The CCHPR will be discussing and developing the details of a framework agreement with Health Canada and a workplan for the next three to five years. Suzanne Jackson, Irv Rootman, Joan Feather (Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre, Saskatoon), Marcia Hills (Community Health Promotion Coalition, Victoria), and Cathie Scott (Health Promotion Research Group, Calgary) will continue to work with Health Canada representatives (regionally and nationally) to develop this agreement.

Suzanne F. Jackson

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Upcoming Events

THCU Spring and Fall Workshops

May 27, 2002 to November 19, 2002
Toronto, Ontario

THCU is pleased to offer its series of provincial workshops for 2002. All workshops are free of charge for Ontario residents.

Introduction to Health Promotion Planning
May 27 - 28, 2002, Brian Hyndman and Nancy Dubois, The Health Communication Unit

This two-day workshop introduces participants to the process of planning health promotion programs.

Overview of Health Communication June 13 - 14, 2002, Nancy Dubois, The Health Communication Unit and Peggy Edwards, The Alder Group

This two-day workshop provides an overview of the 12 steps necessary to develop and implement health communication campaigns.

Introduction to Evaluating Health Promotion Programs
October 21 - 22, 2002, Smaller World Communications

This workshop provides participants with the knowledge and skills to select and design the most appropriate evaluation for a health promotion project..

Overview of Health Communication
November 18-19, 2002, Larry Hershfield and Nancy Dubois, The Health Communication Unit

This two-day workshop provides an overview of the 12 steps necessary to develop and implement health communication campaigns.

This series of workshops is being held at Oakham House, 63 Gould Street, in downtown Toronto. For detailed descriptions, general information and registration visit http://www.thcu.ca, call 416-978-0522 or email hc.unit@utoronto.ca.

9th Annual Ontario Health Promotion Summer School

Health Promotion in Action: Embracing the Winds of Change.

This 4-day event will be held June 24 - 27, 2002, at the Institute for Learning, Toronto, Ontario. Pre-school session is June 23rd.

Learn more about how to embrace, manage and prepare for ongoing, diverse and accelerating change as individuals, working with our communities and in the broader social system. Learn, network and have fun! There is a relaxing and comfortable venue, great food, social events each evening, private accommodation, pool, and a fitness facility. Visit our website for more details at http://www.utoronto.ca/Centre/hpss2002.html. The brochure can be downloaded from this website.

The HPSS is hosted by the Centre for Health Promotion and funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The curriculum is planned by a Provincial planning committee and Aboriginal, Francophone and Anglophone sub-committees to bring participants diverse, relevant and culturally sensitive curriculum.

There is a choice of 10 concurrent sessions (6 hours each). Sessions include managing change (individual), managing change (system level), community mobilization, emerging trends in community planning, aboriginal health management, social environments for health (aboriginal health in context), community mobilization through the theatre (Francophone). There are also many toolbox sessions (90 minutes each) to choose from. Some are offered in French.

There are approximately 70 diverse, motivational and knowledgeable presenters including Dr. Sheela Basrur, Medical Officer of Health, Toronto Public Health - Leadership in A Complex Organizational System; Patricia Baxter, Aboriginal Co-Chair, Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy - Keynote; Regina Cowan, Professor, School of Nursing, Atkinson, York University - Alternative Ways of Dealing with Stress; Suzanne Jackson, Acting Director, Centre for Health Promotion - Thinking at a Cross-Sectoral Systems Level; Dalton Kehoe, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, York University - Communicating Leadership and Change; Sandra Lacle, Director, Health Promotion, Sudbury and District Health Unit - Panel Member - Managing Change - System Level; Sylvia Maracle, Executive Director, Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres - Social Environments for Health: Aboriginal Health in Context; Marvyn Novick, Professor, School of Social Work, Ryerson University - Perspectives on Community Mobilization; Irv Rootman, Professor, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto - Health Promotion 101; Susan Wright, Ed.D. - Managing Change: The Cycle of Renewal; and David Zakus, Director, Centre for International Health - Closing Panel.

We welcome management and staff to this event. Our Concurrent Sessions on managing change have been designed to address both management and staff needs/issues. Our Pre-School Sessions are planned for those new to health promotion and for those in the field who would like a refresher or update.

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