2011 IPPH News

November

• Global health research case studies: Lessons from partnerships addressing health inequities

October

• Armine Yalnizyan receives Ontario Public Health Association's Award of Excellence

September

• Pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) Knowledge Exchange Workshop

August

• Let's Start a Conversation About Health… and Not Talk About Health Care at All
• Government of Canada is committed to improving health equity in Canada and around the world

July

• Call for Cases for a New Publication: Population and Public Health Ethics Casebook

June

• Team Grant: Implementation Research on Hypertension in Low and Middle Income Countries
• Health in All Policies
• Canadian Public Health Association Conference
• Casebook in Population and Public Health Ethics: Pre-announcement

April

• Promoting Health Equity: Action on the Social Determinants of Health

• Over 130 researchers, decision-makers, funders, and others in the field of population health attended a Population Health Intervention Research (PHIR) Symposium in November 2010.
  
  The purpose of the Symposium was to:
  • Identify issues relevant to advancing the science of PHIR
  • Identify emergent PHIR priorities and related data infrastructure requirements
  • Showcase PHIR examples from Canada and other countries

  The event was sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - Institute of Population and Public Health, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes.

  Read more in the Symposium Summary Report.
  View the Symposium presentations, event program, and full report.

• Approximately 60 researchers met in December 2010 for a Population Health Intervention Research workshop.

  The objectives of the workshop were to:

  • create a forum to contrast, debate, and discuss the different theoretical and methodological underpinnings of PHIR in order to advance the science of population health interventions
  • identify priority areas for theoretical and methodological development in PHIR

  Read more in the Workshop Summary Report.
  View the Workshop presentations, event program, and full report.

• CIHR Café Scientifique Program

March

• Examples of Population Health Intervention Research
• CIHR-IPPH and CPHI-CIHI Population Health Intervention Research Casebook - 2011

February

• Registration is open for the Canadian Public Health Association Conference, June 19-22, 2011. Montreal, QC

• Pre-announcement of the first joint research activity - hypertension
  The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD), a consortium of national health research funding agencies that includes CIHR, announced on December 8, 2010, its intention to release a Request for Applications (RFA) on Implementation Research on Hypertension in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Investigators are invited to submit proposals to improve effective approaches to the prevention and control of hypertension. CIHR will be accepting applications for research in both LMICs and with First Nations, Metis and Inuit populations and communities.

  The final announcement is expected in April 2011

January

• CIHR-IPPH 2011 Summer Student Employment Opportunity at the University of Ottawa
• Ottawa Exhibition: 100 Years of Public Health
• CIHR-IPPH-CPHA Population and Public Health Research Milestones