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Health in All Policies: Taking Intersectoral Action for Equitable & Sustainable Health
PHABC 2013 Annual Conference and General Meeting November 4th – 5th 2013
Overcoming Challenges – Taking Vision to Action
Ministry of Health half-‐day Session November 6th, 2013
PHABC 4th Annual Conference Presenter and Moderator Biographies Plenary 1: IAH, HPP, HiAP & more: a Guided Tour Chair: Marjorie MacDonald Presenters: Dr. Trevor Hancock and Dr. Kira Fortune
Dr. Marjorie MacDonald Dr. Marjorie MacDonald is a Professor in the School of Nursing at UVIC and teaches in the MPH program in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at UVIC. She holds a CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair in Public Health Education and Population Intervention Research. In her Applied Public Health Chair, she is focusing on three streams of research: a series of studies exploring the implementation and impact of the Core Public Health Functions Framework in BC; studies related to adolescent health promotion in the areas of health literacy and adolescent smoking; and research related to conceptualizing the nature of advanced practice nursing in public health. Cross cutting themes in her research include health equity, partnerships, knowledge translation, and methodological innovation. In her public health services research she is Academic Lead (with Trevor Hancock as Decision Maker Lead) of the Core Public Health Functions Research Initiative (CPHFRI), a large collaborative venture involving researchers and decision makers in BC and Ontario. Since 2011, she has been the President of the Public Health Association of British Columbia after serving on the board of directors and the Executive Committee for several years.
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Dr. Trevor Hancock Dr. Trevor Hancock is a public health physician and health promotion consultant and is currently a Professor and Senior Scholar at the new School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria. He is one of the founders of the (now global) Healthy Cities and Communities movement and originated the term 'healthy public policy'. Over the past 30 years he has worked as a consultant for local communities, municipal, provincial and national governments, health care organizations, NGOs and the World Health Organization. In the recent past he spent nine years as a Public Health Consultant at the Ministry of Health in British Columbia, where he worked to implement core programs in public health, to increase preventive services in primary care, to foster a population health promotion approach, to develop a comprehensive self-‐care strategy and to ‘green’ the health care system. In particular he developed and led the implementation of BC's Core Public Health Functions Initiative, and its Clinical Prevention Policy Review. Nationally, he is a member of the Canadian Council on the Social Determinants of Health, a member of the Board of the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada, and is on the Advisory Council of the Arts and Health Network Canada. He is leading a CPHA workgroup that is revising and updating a 1992 report on the ecological determinants health In BC he is a member of the Board of BC Healthy Communities and Co-‐Director of the Core Public Health Functions Research Initiative at UVIC. Dr. Kira Fortune Kira Fortune, Ph.D., M.I.H., M.A., B.Sc. has worked more than 15 years in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America in positions related to public health, gender and social determinants of health. Kira spent four years working in the Department of Global Advocacy at The International Planned Parenthood Federation in London and then spent three years with UNICEF in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where she was responsible for the program on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV. Kira has extensive experience working with and within NGOs, academia as well as in inter-‐governmental organizations focusing on gender mainstreaming, social determinants of health, reproductive health and rights as well as general public health issues. Prior to moving to Washington DC she coordinated The International Health Research Network in Denmark with the objective of translating research evidence into policy. In 2008 she joined the Pan-‐American Health Organization, the regional office of the UN's World Health Organization, where she is responsible for the social determinants of health. Kira holds a Master's degree in Anthropology, Development and Gender as well as a Doctorate in Sociology on The Challenge of Gender Mainstreaming for a Contemporary NGO from University of London, England. She also holds a Master's Degree in International Public Health from Copenhagen University, Denmark.
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Plenary 2: Intersectoral Action in the Community & Social Innovation Chair: Simon Carroll Presenters: Gordon Hogg and Jodi Mucha
Simon Carroll, Ph.D. Simon recently completed a post-‐doctoral fellowship on the use of theories and approaches to complexity relevant to population health promotion interventions. He is currently working for the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, and researches in the areas of: intersectoral action for health; health equity; and, the application of complexity science and systems thinking in public health and health promotion research. He is currently working on a collaborative policy research project, funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, looking at the legacy and sustainability of intersectoral action for health in British Columbia. Gordon Hogg Gordon has been a Little League Coach, a foster parent and a board member of over 15 committees and non-‐profit. He was a youth probation officer, the warden of Burnaby Youth Custody Centre, a city councilor and the Mayor of White Rock for over 10 years. He is currently the MLA for Surrey-‐White Rock, he has served as the Minister of Children and Family Development, Health Prevention (Act NOW) and has presented to the World Health Organization in Bahrain and the Commonwealth Conference in Nigeria. Gordon chaired the Boundary Union Board of Health, and White Rock Health Council. His father was one of the first doctors in White Rock. He has a Master’s degree in Psychology and is currently working on his PhD at SFU. He served on White Rock council for 20 years, for 10 of which he was mayor. He has been a board member of more than 15 committees and non-‐profit societies, including the Peace Arch Community Health Council and Peace Arch District Hospital. He has also been a foster parent and little league coach. Gordon and his wife, LaVerne, live in White Rock and have one son.
Jodi Mucha Jodi Mucha is currently the Executive Director with BC Healthy Communities. Jodi has a Masters in Environment and Management from Royal Roads University, and over 20 years of community development experience working both at the local and international level. She also has a strong background in community-‐based research, developmental evaluation, social capital and healthy public policy. She provides expertise in multi-‐sectoral collaboration and partnerships, systems thinking, the healthy communities approach and practical approaches to understanding the links between the determinants of health. In her spare time, Jodi competes in long distance triathlons all around the world.
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Plenary 3: Intersectoral Action: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Chair: Dr. Irv Rootman Presenters: Mary Collins and Dr. Gord Miller
Dr. Irving Rootman Irving Rootman is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria and a Visiting Professor in Gerontology at Simon Fraser University. He has been a researcher, research manager, program manager, professor and consultant in the field of health promotion for more than thirty years. Currently, he is a Board member and Co-‐chair of the Capacity-‐Building Committee for the Public Health Association of BC as well as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the BC Health Literacy Network. He also Co-‐Chaired the Canadian Expert Panel on Health Literacy. Mary Collins Mary is the Director of the Secretariat of the BC Healthy Living Alliance in Vancouver BC which promotes collaborative action to reduce chronic disease and health inequities. She is also the Chair of the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, which focuses on similar issues at the national level. During the mid eighties Mary served as a Member of Parliament and a Cabinet Minister holding the portfolios of Associate Minister of National Defense, Minister of Health and Welfare, Status of Women, Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State for Environment. From 2002-‐2007 she worked in Russia with the World Health Organization and throughout her career has been involved in health policy and practice, locally, nationally and internationally. She is an active participant in many organizations serving on the Boards of the Vancouver Police, Royal Roads University, the Arts Club Theatre and the Vancouver Opera Foundation. Dr. Gord Miller Gord is an Assistant Professor within School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria. He was a former Research Officer and Senior Policy Analyst with the Ministry of Health, and Ministry for Children and Family Development. He has been involved in the provincial development and implementation of: Healthy Workplaces; Healthy Schools; Healthy Communities; Health Impact Assessment (HIA); Provincial Health Goals; Meaningful Youth Participation; Youth Agreements; Agreements with Youth Adults; and, Youth Policy Framework. As an international consultant, he has been involved in the country-‐wide development and evaluation of “Healthy Schools Initiatives” and “Health Impact Assessment” within Sweden, Australia, and the Bahamas. Gord is founding chair of the “Community Youth Development Coalition of British Columbia” and board member of the Public Health Association of BC.
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He received an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the University of Victoria, and is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Fellow. His research centers on understanding how programs, institutions, and communities affect adolescent development. Gord is the principal investigator and co-‐researcher for Surrey’s Community Youth Mapping Research Project; SD 62’s Staying in School Research Project; and, the Ministry of Children and Family Development’s Youth Engagement Project. He is actively involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate level courses.
Plenary 4: Intersectoral Action for Mental Health Chair: Paola Ardiles Presenters: Warren O’Briain, Leanne Boyd and Laura Tate
Paola Ardiles Paola Ardiles is the founder and network lead for the newly established Bridge for Health Network: an innovative, interdisciplinary and collaborative platform to promote health and well-‐being for all. The network started in Vancouver as a local not-‐for-‐profit, and is expanding internationally to Latin American and Europe in the fall of 2013. Paola holds a Bachelor of Science (Psychology Specialist) and a Master of Health Science (Health Promotion), both from the University of Toronto. Paola obtained the Investment for Health: Integrating Health in All Policies Diploma (2008), from the University of Padova Medical School and WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development. She also completed the Global Health Diplomacy Summer Executive Diploma (2009) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, Paola is affiliated with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, and is teaching a graduate level Health Promotion course for the fall semester. Paola is an active board member of the Public Health Association of B.C., and the co-‐chair for the newly established Public Engagement subcommittee of the Capacity Building committee. Through her policy research and capacity-‐building work, Paola advocates for programs and policies that promote equity and well-‐being, by applying interprofessional, inter-‐sectoral and strength-‐based approaches. In September 2012, the Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division awarded her the Dr. Nancy Hall Public Policy Leadership Award of Distinction, for Paola's local, provincial and national work to promote a shift in the way mental health is conceptualized. Warren O'Briain Warren O'Briain is an Executive Director with BC's Ministry of Health. His branch formulates provincial policy related to communicable disease prevention and control, harm reduction and mental health promotion, including the upstream components of Health Minds, Healthy People: a 10-‐year plan to address mental health and substance use in BC. Health Minds, Healthy People uses a population health approach, emphasizes promoting positive mental health and preventing mental illness in settings such as home, school and work, and is Canada's first whole-‐of-‐government mental health and substance use plan.
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Laura Tate Since 2011 Laura Tate has been the Provincial Director of the Community Action Initiative, a group which provides grant funding and some training to enable community-‐led projects addressing mental health and substance use challenges. This lean but mighty organization has recently benefitted from a$15 million investment this past April from the Province of British Columbia –funds which will be used to help communities to do even more to build their strengths. Prior to her work with the Community Action Initiative, Laura held positions with two provincial ministries and as a community planner with various municipalities in Metro Vancouver. She also completed her doctorate in community development and planning at the University of British Columbia. Laura believes passionately in the power of communities, and in the importance of seeing good ideas come to fruition. Some of her recent academic research and writing has focused on group processes in implementation and on the innovation process. She also manages to have a personal life. Laura lives in Victoria with her husband and border collie –both of whom keep her on her toes. She enjoys travelling, exploring various parks with the dog, being part of a motorbike gang (as a passenger), reading, watching international films, and has recently begun learning to play the guitar (badly). Leanne Boyd Leanne Boyd is the Director, Policy Development, Research and Evaluation at the Healthy Child Manitoba Office (HCMO), the staff and secretariat of the Government of Manitoba's Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet (HCCC), the only legislated Cabinet committee in Canada dedicated to the well-‐being of children and youth (prenatal to age 18 years). HCCC comprises the Ministers of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs; Culture, Heritage and Tourism; Education; Family Services and Consumer Affairs; Health; Healthy Living, Youth and Seniors; Housing and Community Development; Justice; and Labour and Immigration/Status of Women. Under the Healthy Child Manitoba Act (2007), HCMO is mandated to work across departments and sectors through integrated research, policy, practice, and evaluation to facilitate best possible outcomes for children, youth, family, and community. Leanne represents/co-‐chairs Manitoba on several Federal, Provincial, Territorial (F/P/T) and national committees such as: National Monitoring Committee; Canadian Institute for Child Health (CICH) National Advisory Board; Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) – Institute Advisory Board; National Forum on ECD Monitoring and Measurement; Healthy Peoples Healthy Communities Steering Committee; Many Hands, One Voice Advisory Committee (co-‐led by the Canadian Pediatric Society and the major national Aboriginal organizations); Mental Health Promotion Task Group, Healthy Peoples, Healthy Communities; Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention Network; Pan-‐Canadian Early Development Instrument (EDI) Working Group; Directing Committee, Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development; Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Early Child Development (SKC-‐ECD) – Advisory Committee; Federal/Provincial/Territorial Sub Committee on the OECD Network on ECEC; as well as chairing many provincial cross-‐departmental committees.
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Leanne has BSW and MSW degrees from the University of Manitoba and an Advanced Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry internship. Leanne has worked with the Province of Manitoba, for the last 37 years, as a director, senior policy analyst, mental health therapist, and instructor, focused on improving health, especially mental health outcomes of children, youth, families and communities.
PHABC Conference Closing Keynote Speaker Dr. John Millar After a 15-‐year career in clinical medicine, surgery, health policy and administration in the developing world Dr. Millar returned to Canada where he specialized in population and public health. After serving as a Medical Health Officer in several BC jurisdictions, Dr. Millar became the Provincial Health Officer from 1992-‐ 1998 during which time, among other achievements, he developed health goals for BC. After serving for 5 years (1998-‐2003) as the Vice President for the CIHR in Ottawa, from 2003 to 2011, Dr. Millar was the Executive Director, Population and Public Health for the BC Provincial Health Services Authority. In this role Dr. Millar was the Chair of the BC Obesity Reduction Task Force, Chair of the National Advisory Committee for the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health and Chair of the BC Healthy Built Environment Alliance. Dr. Millar is a Lifetime Honourary member of both the Canadian Public Health Association and the Public Health Association of BC. He is a member of the Health Officers Council of BC and a past member of the BC Population Health Network as well as many other organisations and networks dedicated to improving population health, reducing health and socio-‐economic inequities and the better prevention and management of chronic disease. Dr. Millar has received several awards recognizing his contributions to public health nationally and provincially and has many publications to his credit. Dr. Millar is Clinical Professor Emeritus at the School for Population and Public Health at UBC where he is involved in teaching and research in public health leadership, health policy and international health. Dr. Millar is currently Vice President of the Public Health Association of BC and serves on the BC Healthy Living Alliance and the Coordinating Committee of First Call. Dr. Millar continues his interest in international and global health issues and has consulted on health projects in numerous developing countries (Cuba, Uganda, Kosovo, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Laos, Zambia, Papua New Guinea).
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Overcoming Challenges – Taking Vision to Action
Ministry of Health half-‐day Session November 6th, 2013 8:00am – 11:30am
Arlene Paton Arlene Paton became the Assistant Deputy Minister, Population and Public Health, Ministry of Health, in September 2011. She is responsible for a team of about 130 people working across the health system, government and society on the full range of population and public health programs, services and initiatives. These include environmental health, communicable disease prevention, immunization, health emergency management, health promotion and citizen engagement, maternal, child and youth public health programs, healthy schools, communities and workplaces, strategies to increase healthy eating and physical activity levels, and mental health promotion, as well as a focus on specific populations such as Aboriginal peoples and status of women. Arlene has worked for the provincial government in Victoria since 1988, starting at Treasury Board in the Ministry of Finance, and was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Post Secondary Education Division, Ministry of Advanced Education, in October 2004. She moved to the Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation as Assistant Deputy Minister in 2006 to lead the all-‐of-‐government approach to closing the social and economic gaps that exist between Aboriginal and other British Columbians. Arlene holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Queen's University. Jeffrey Simpson Award-‐winning journalist and current events expert Jeffrey Simpson has his finger on the pulse of Canada and the world. National affairs columnist with The Globe and Mail, Simpson has been recognized with Canada's top literary awards: the Governor-‐General's award for non-‐fiction writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for his newspaper columns. Simpson's presentations are alive with the same unique and thought-‐provoking insight as his columns. With clarity and detail, he offers a concise interpretation of Canada and the world around us.