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Funding for the Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment (CPCHE) and Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) Promotes Ongoing Advocacy on Children's Health Agenda
The Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment (CPCHE) is a collaborative partnership of eleven groups that are working together across traditional boundaries to protect children's health from environmental contaminants. The partnership aims to: move children's environmental health issues into the minds of decision-makers both on the front lines and at the policy level; promote children's environmental health amongst caregivers and the public; and, coordinate activities and create efficiencies amongst the partners.
The Ontario Trillium Foundation has recently approved funding for CPCHE's "Building Local Children's Environmental Health Champions" project, with the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) as the project lead. OPHA has been a leader in children's environmental health issues through its environmental health committee and children's health committee and this project is a natural extension of their existing work.
"Building Local Children’s Environmental Health Champions" will enable OPHA and CPCHE partners to build the capacity of local thought leaders currently working in service provider organizations to deliver high quality children's environmental health programming in their communities. The goal is to create a network of champions throughout the province who can advance the cause of children's environmental health in their local communities. OPHA is pleased to announce that Beth Anne Currie has been hired as a consultant to implement this project.
In addition to the Local Champions project, this grant will also enable OPHA and CPCHE to work with public health inspectors (PHIs) to bring a child health and environment lens — namely the prevention of exposure to environmental contaminants and other hazards — to the daily work of PHIs in the child care and school settings.
OPHA 2007
Public Health: Who's at Risk? What's at Stake?
Early Bird registration is now open for this year's OPHA Conference, co-hosted by Toronto Public Health. The conference will be held on November 18-21, 2007
at the Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre. Online registration and the complete preliminary program guide are available at our conference website.
During six concurrent sessions, delegates will be able to choose from numerous panels and oral presentations in five sub-themes:
- Working in a Health System under Reform
- Evidence Based Practice and the Precautionary Principle
- Emerging Issues in Public Health
- Populations at Risk
- Access, Equity and Social Justice
This year's lineup of keynote speakers includes
- Giller prize-winning author and emergency physician Dr. Vincent Lam
- Michele Simon, author of the highly-acclaimed "Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back"
- Dr. Vincent Covello, founder and director of the US-based Center for Risk Communication
- Angela Robertson, Executive Director of Sistering: A Woman's Place.
As well, keynote panel discussions on youth, Aboriginal Health, and Health System Reform are planned.
"From Politics to the People" — CPHA 2007 Annual Conference
In association with OPHA, the CPHA 2007 Annual Conference will be held on September 16-19, 2007 at the Westin Ottawa/Ottawa Congress Centre, in Ottawa. The conference will feature such distinguished speakers as:
- Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's first Chief Public Health Officer
- Allan Gregg, Chairman of The Strategic Counsel, one of Canada's leading market research and polling firms
- Dr. James Orbinski, a veteran of many of the world's most disturbing and complex humanitarian emergencies
At the conference, CPHA and OPHA will host a public forum to discuss the David Suzuki Foundation's groundbreaking report calling for a National Environmental Health Strategy. Conference delegates and members of the public will be able to discuss the report's findings with Foundation representatives, environmental health physician Dr. Lynn Marshall, OPHA Environmental Health Workgroup Chair Louise Aubin, and an international guest speaker to be announced shortly. The forum will be held on Tuesday, September 18th at 7:00 p.m. at the conference venue.
OPHA Secretariat 20th Anniversary Open House "celebrates the past and moves forward to the future"
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