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Reflections & Directions

Reflections & Directions. April 21-22, 2008 Ginette Thomas Managing Director - NCCAH. Overview. Greetings from Margo Greenwood Introduction to the NCCAH Reflections on current projects Future directions. NCCs Across Canada. Determinants of Health – Nova Scotia

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Reflections & Directions

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  1. Reflections & Directions April 21-22, 2008 Ginette Thomas Managing Director - NCCAH

  2. Overview • Greetings from Margo Greenwood • Introduction to the NCCAH • Reflections on current projects • Future directions

  3. NCCs Across Canada • Determinants of Health – Nova Scotia • Healthy Public Policy – Quebec • Methods and Tools – Ontario • Infectious Diseases – Manitoba • Environmental Health – Vancouver, BC • Aboriginal Health – Prince George, BC

  4. Goals of the NCCs • Existing knowledge is translated into useful evidence; • Gaps in public health knowledge needs are identified; and • Links to networks of regional, national and international expertise and practice are established.

  5. What is “KSTE” • Knowledge • Synthesis • Translation • Exchange

  6. NCCAH KSTE priority areas • Child and youth health • Aboriginal health policy synthesis • Knowledge interfaces • Social determinants of health • Emerging public health priorities

  7. Some of our products • DVD on Intersection of Indigenous knowledges and western science • Papers on Indigenous social determinants of health • Web symposium on FASD • FN Environmental health network database and Website (FNEHIN) • Who’s who database in Aboriginal health reseasrch • Fact sheets

  8. Directions for 2008-09 • Build on the success of collaborations established last year • Focus on key KSTE priority directions • Develop products that have an impact on practice

  9. Contact us Holly Nathan Communications nathan@unbc.ca 250.960.5986 Email: • nccah@unbc.ca • bciniti@unbc.ca • fnehin@unbc.ca Websites: • www.nccah.ca • www.bcinitiatives.ca • www.fnehin

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