Program

Networking break with Sponsors and Exhibitors
Poster Presentations

12:00 - 13:15

Networking lunch

Concurrent sessions

• Beyond illness: Operationalizing a substance use health framework into community development and public health initiatives in Ottawa
• Bridging gaps in public health: Understanding and addressing anti-Black racism through Black community stories
• Community-led vaccine research and health promotion in Yukon First Nations communities
• From intent to action: Advancing cultural safety and humility
• How the pandemic reshaped trust and equity in Canadian public health
• Overcoming barriers: Enhancing access to primary health care services in national and territorial contexts in the region of the Americas
• Oral Abstract Presentations

Networking break with Sponsors and Exhibitors

Concurrent sessions

• Centering health equity in the knowledge synthesis process: Sharing evidence and learnings
• COVID-19 and Indigenous public health sovereignty in British Columbia: Addressing systemic inequity through community-driven solutions
• Engaging community to scale and evaluate stigma reduction interventions: Lessons learned piloting the organizational stigma assessment tool to promote more supportive and inclusive sexual health and harm reduction services
• The impact of health system transformation on public health in the prairie provinces: The good, the bad, and the ugly
• Science as an essential component of public health pandemic preparedness: A workshop to inform science coordination and collaboration within the upcoming Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Plan
• Social prescribing as a public health tool: Addressing health equity and community needs
• Oral Abstract Presentations

11:00 - 12:30

Concurrent sessions

• Advancing Black People’s health: Culturally responsive approaches in health research
• Global health diplomacy skills in an uncertain world
• Growing ‘Unlearning Clubs’ towards eradicating Indigenous-specific structural racism and systemic White supremacy in population and public health
• Innovative ways to engage the public health workforce: Integrating and sustaining the updated core competencies for public health in Canada in practice
• Iyâkwâmisîtâu wichîhîtutâu kiyâh chiskûtimâsûtâu iiyaakwaamisiitaau wichiihiitutaau kiyaah chiskuutimaasuutaau | Collaborations between public health and emergency measures: Lessons learned from Eeyou Istchee
• Shared health priorities: Measuring progress and bridging data gaps with common indicators

Networking lunch

Concurrent sessions

• Applied Public Health Chairs: A case study of applied research and advocacy
• Better together: Drawing on 20 years of knowledge translation to navigate new public health challenges
• Determining the comprehensive gender-inclusive sexual and reproductive care needs of Indigenous Peoples in Ontario: A desire-based, Indigenous-led collaborative assessment of needs
• Engagement resources to advance health equity for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples and communities
• Equitable leadership for public health systems change
• Screen use and child and adolescent health in Canada: Triangulation of evidence assessing the state of the sector
• Turning vision into action: Advancing public health surveillance in Canada

Concurrent sessions

• Empowerment and decentralization of STBBI testing using dried blood spots, for communities experiencing health inequities
• Evaluating implementation strategies of the Black Health Primer in public health practice: Reflections, strategies, and ways forward
• Health economics and modelling 101 for public health
• Hindsight + Insight = Foresight: Invigorating population and public health equity research in uncertain times
• Integrating AI training into the curricula of schools and programs in public health: What are the core competencies required for public health practice?
• Mental health and substance use in Sioux Lookout area First Nations: Trends, challenges, and community-centered solutions

Concurrent sessions

• Climate-sensitive health risks and wildfire evacuations in Manitoba
• Community organizing: A community power-building approach to advancing health equity
• Fifty years of struggle for recognition of mercury poisoning: Learning from the experience of Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek, Grassy Narrows First Nation
• Indigenized forum theatre for youth mental wellness
• Publishing in the Canadian Journal of Public Health: Tips from the Editor-in-Chief
• Understanding root causes of Indigenous health inequity, its impact on health outcomes, and how to move forward in a good way with health data
• What matters to public health clients regarding their public health experiences? How their involvement in co-designing public health initiatives can make a difference

10:30 - 12:00

Concurrent sessions

• The battle for truth: Misinformation and the role of the health professional
• Bringing it all together: Approaches for navigating, communicating and decision-making with public health evidence
• Build your climate literacy: Climate data tools for public health adaptation
• From managing to preventing: How the homelessness sector can benefit from Canada’s public health data infrastructure
• Instructions have been provided: Addressing Indigenous-specific racism and implementing foundational obligations to Indigenous Peoples in public health system
• Looking forward, looking back: Two decades of pan-Canadian public health leadership
• Using digital storytelling to gather insights on Indigenous health, wellness and sovereignty: Lessons from four community-based research projects