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Canadian Public Health Association

Preliminary Program

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Updated 27 January; 14:00 (ET)
Program is subject to change.

Simultaneous interpretation will be provided for sessions marked with an asterik (*).

WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH

12:30 - 14:00 *Welcome and Plenary I - Use with care: Governing AI for the public good in health
14:00 - 15:45

Poster Presentations

15:45 - 16:00

Transition Break

16:00 - 17:30

Concurrent sessions

  • Bridging the divide: Supporting organizations to use their own research
  • Equipping outdoor spaces at schools and child-care settings to promote child health and well-being, health equity, and climate resiliency
  • Equity-informed responses to the growing public health threat of wildfires and smoke: Perspectives from the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health
  • The future of digital public health: Human-centred AI and extended reality for precision prevention of public health crises
  • Gender-specific response to the opioid epidemic: Integrating evidence-based research to inform gender-specific policy and practices
  • *Rebuilding trust in vaccines: Insights and actions
  • Strengthening settler capacity to uphold Indigenous rights, truth, and reconciliation through the Colonial Knot Review Collective
  • Oral Abstract Sessions 1 & 2

Thursday 12 March

9:00 - 10:30

Concurrent sessions

  • 10-year anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action: Truth telling in public health
  • Bridging disciplines, breaking silos: Collaborative environmental health strategies for a changing world
  • Enhancing surveillance for better insights: Bridging data to actions addressing health inequities
  • *Filière économique de la prévention : une occasion stratégique pour le Canada
  • Research about youth, by youth, for youth: A workshop to operationalize the Canadian Journal of Public Health’s new guidelines on youth engagement
  • Sustaining trust, advancing equity – Emerging challenges and opportunities in vaccination: An Applied Public Health Chairs symposium
  • Oral Abstract Sessions 3 - 5
10:30 - 11:30 Refreshment Break with Sponsors and Exhibitors

11:30 - 13:00

Concurrent sessions

  • Bridging evidence and action: Lessons in making data accessible, actionable, and impactful
  • Building connections for Black health: Engaging public health and preventive medicine physicians and residents to address structural anti-Black racism
  • Building trust in turbulent times: A community-driven rapid research response to wildfires and Indigenous displacement
  • Community engagement as a transformative force in public health: A symposium with Applied Public Health Chairs
  • Mapping education curricula and public health practice training initiatives to Canada’s updated core competencies
  • The Ottawa Charter, 40 years on: Celebrating global and regional progress, and renewing our commitment to health promotion
  • Pandemic preparedness through behavioural science: An enhanced iCARE partnership to tackle public trust
  • Oral Abstract Sessions 6 & 7
13:00 - 14:30

Networking Lunch with Sponsors and Exhibitors

14:30 - 16:00

Concurrent session

  • Calling in public health leaders, researchers, and practitioners to make ripples of change for equity
  • Investing in tomorrow: Developing the next generation of emergency responders in Canada
  • Making it make sense: Practical skills for evidence-informed decision-making in public health
  • A national conversation on cultural safety and Indigenous-specific racism indicators, Indigenous data governance, and data stewardship
  • Nurturing Algoma: Advancing infant mental health and resilience through the Canadian database of development, infancy to six, and community-wide collaboration
  • The politics and profit of disinformation in public health
  • Oral Abstract Sessions 8—10

Friday 13 March

9:00 - 10:30

Concurrent sessions

  • Advancing health equity using frameworks with learnings from co-created, practice-based, and published evidence
  • Building multilingual trust: Countering health misinformation through faith-based and community-led outreach
  • Cultivating change: Public health actions to transform food systems and advance food justice
  • Equity in crises: Addressing inequities in emergency contexts
  • Integrating modelling and economics into public health decision-making to optimize health outcomes: Current practice and future opportunities
  • Restoring Indigenous jurisdiction and data sovereignty: A treaty-based tool for research governance
  • Weight stigma as a social determinant of health: Toward more inclusive public health approaches
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment Break with Sponsors and Exhibitors

11:00 - 12:30

Concurrent sessions

  • Addressing misconceptions about behavioural science in public health: Setting the record straight!
  • Flexible surge solutions for public health emergencies: Filling gaps in hard-to-reach Canadian communities
  • Harnessing data for action: Health data to inform public health initiatives for the unhoused population
  • How can public health programs and guidelines consider impacts on planetary health?
  • Ontario’s implementation of RSV immunization programs across the lifespan: Lessons from the first three seasons
  • A practical workshop towards assessing, understanding, and applying infectious disease modelling research in public health
  • Publishing in the Canadian Journal of Public Health: Tips from the Editor-in-Chief
  • Reckon, rebuild and reimagine: Critical reflexivity for anti-racist public health action
12:30 - 13:30 Networking Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 *Plenary II and Closing - The work of trust, relationships, and reconciliation