Welcome to CPHA

The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is a national, independent, not-for-profit, voluntary association representing public health in Canada with links to the international public health community. CPHA’s members believe in universal and equitable access to the basic conditions which are necessary to achieve health for all Canadians.


Highlights

Download the position paper
  • New CPHA Position Statement on Tobacco Use in Canada
    On December 7, the CPHA Board approved a new position statement on tobacco and smoking. The Winnable Battle: Ending Tobacco Use in Canada is a forceful call to action for all who care about public health to commit to the steady reduction and ultimate eradication of tobacco use. It proposes the goal of a tobacco-free Canada by the year 2035 and calls on all levels of government, communities, public health practitioners and citizens to work aggressively to achieve the specific intermediate targets.
 
Logo for the decade for action on road safety
  • CPHA became a Partner of the Road Safety Fund
    CPHA became a non-governmental Institutional Partner of the Road Safety Fund, the global fund established by the FIA Foundation and the World Health Organization to promote and encourage financial and technical support for the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The CPHA and the Road Safety Fund will work together to identify potential funding partners and to support the implementation of road injury prevention programs in developing countries. For additional information, visit


  • Recommendations to Strengthen the Food Safety System
    CPHA welcomes the Government of Canada's announcement about the release of Action on Weatherill Report Recommendations to Strengthen the Food Safety System: Final Report to Canadians.




Read more about the guidelines
  • Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines
    For the first time ever, Canada has one national set of low-risk alcohol drinking guidelines. These guidelines are informed by the most recent and best available scientific research and evidence. They are intended to provide consistent information across the country to help Canadians moderate their alcohol consumption and reduce their immediate and long-term alcohol-related harm.
 
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  • The Basic Shelf Cookbook
    Newly Updated 2011 Edition

    This is a very special cookbook because all the recipes can be made from one list of low-cost, nutritious ingredients that make up what we call “the basic shelf”. In this updated edition, the best recipes from the first edition of the cookbook were kept and a number of new recipes were added.
 
link to: Report on the State of Public Health in Canada, 2011


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  • Anti-bullying: Best Practices
    CPHA Assessment Toolkit for Bullying, Harassment and Peer Relations at School provides a standard way to measure the nature and prevalence of school peer relationship problems, standards for quality programs, and a common set of tools to assess the impact of school-based programs. An electronic copy is available free. The print version includes a CD with Excel data entry files, sold through CPHA Publication Sales.
 
Visit the CPHA Public Health KnowledgeCentre
  • The CPHA Public Health KnowledgeCentre™
    The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is pleased to announce the launch of the CPHA Public Health KnowledgeCentre™.

    CPHA’s Public Health KnowledgeCentre™ is a group subscriber-based service for those working in public health. We’ve developed this service to share what you know and strengthen how you collaborate across jurisdictions. Our goal is to advance public health practice in Canada.

    We are proud to say that the KnowledgeCentre™ has been built by public health for public health.

    If public health is your profession, this is your community.
 
Read the SOPHA Program review
  • A Favourable Review of CPHA’s SOPHA Program
    The August 2011 issue of the Journal of Public Health Policy includes an article reviewing the achievements and contribution of CPHA’s Strengthening of Public Health Associations (SOPHA) Program to build public health capacity in developing countries over the past 25 years. The review was written by two independent authors, Christer Hogstedt, former Head of the Research Department at the Swedish National Institute of Public Health, and Bosse Pettersson, former Deputy Director-General at the Swedish National Institute of Public Health.
 

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