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Public Health 2025

Winnipeg, Manitoba (28 April 2025) – Public Health 2025 is the national conference where public health professionals, researchers, policy-makers, academics, students and trainees come together to strengthen efforts to improve health and well-being, to share the latest research and information, to promote best practices and to advocate for public health issues and policies grounded in research.

What:    Public Health 2025: The Canadian Public Health Association’s annual conference
When:    Tuesday 29 April at 09:00 to Thursday 1 May at 13:30 (CT)
Where:    RBC Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba (375 York Ave.) 

Programs
The scientific program is available on the conference website. 

Highlights
Plenary I – Advancing Indigenous health equity: Bridging truth, reconciliation, and decolonization

  • Marcia Anderson, Vice-Dean, Indigenous Health, Social Justice and Anti-Racism, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
  • Wayne Inuglak Clark, Director, Wâpanachakos Indigenous Health Program, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta
  • Senator Margo Greenwood
  • Caroline Tait, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

Plenary II – Social connection as climate resilience

  • Evalyna Bogdan, Assistant Professor, Disaster & Emergency Management, York University
  • Melissa Lem, Clinical Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, President, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
  • Abhay Singh Sachal, Founder and Executive Director, Break The Divide

Plenary III – Visioning the future of public health in Canada

  • Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada

Requests for interviews with any presenter can be made via CPHA communications staff. Complementary attendance for members of the media is available. Simultaneous interpretation is available in plenary sessions.

CPHA is pleased to host Public Health 2025 through a unique and effective collaboration with the following organizations:

Contributing Partners
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
National Collaborating Centres for Public Health

Collaborators
Alberta Public Health Association
Assembly of First Nations
Canadian Alliance for Regional Risk Factor Surveillance
Manitoba Métis Federation
Manitoba Public Health Association
Métis National Council
Network of Schools and Programs of Population Public Health
Pan America Health Organization
Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Health Physicians of Canada
Saskatchewan Public Health Association

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For more information contact:
Dolores Gutierrez, Communications & Marketing Officer
Canadian Public Health Association
Telephone: 613.725.3769, ext. 190
communications@cpha.ca

About the Canadian Public Health Association
Founded in 1910, the Canadian Public Health Association is the independent voice for public health in Canada with links to the international community. As the only Canadian non-governmental organization focused exclusively on public health, we are uniquely positioned to advise decision-makers about public health system reform and to guide initiatives to help safeguard the personal and community health of Canadians and people around the world. We are a national, independent, not-for-profit, voluntary association. Our members believe in universal and equitable access to the basic conditions that are necessary to achieve health for all.

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