TOPHC 2022 Spring Workshop

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The Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC)

TOPHC 2022 Spring Workshop:  Measuring What Counts in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic: A tool for equity

COVID-19 has highlighted and amplified long-standing inequities in Canadian society and health systems. Various health equity indicator prompts, and resources to support their use, have been developed to build on earlier work by Public Health Ontario and colleagues on an emergency preparedness framework to support public health system resilience and a set of public health emergency preparedness indicators. The framework, indicators and prompts help explicitly assess organizational capacity and move to integrate health equity considerations systematically and systemically in all decision making for emergency preparedness, response and recovery. In this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to test an interactive tool for measuring progress towards integrating health equity considerations in public health planning, response and recovery. Effective integration of equity considerations requires they be integrated in all planning efforts and all of the time. We will engage workshop participants in a discussion of the challenges and opportunities for using these tools to support an equity approach.

Intended audience: This 2-hour session is designed to support public health professionals, such as those working in emergency preparedness, response and/or recovery, with integrating health equity considerations.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to: <ul><li>Apply a public health emergency preparedness framework including indicators and equity prompts.</li><li>Evaluate the use of these tools in public health organizations.</li><li>Examine how using the framework, indicators and equity prompts can support explicitly using an equity approach to emergency planning, response and recovery. </li></ul>

Continued Conversations (optional 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT) Join us after the workshop for an optional 30-minute discussion and networking session. A PHO facilitator will lead the Continued Conversation session where participants will discuss the key topics and themes from the workshop.

About the facilitators: Dr. Claire Betker (left) and Margaret Haworth-Brockman (right)

Dr. Claire Betker, Scientific Director, National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH), is a registered nurse and since March 2019 has been the NCCDH’s scientific director. Prior to coming to the NCCDH, Claire was the Executive Director of the Population and Public Health Branch with Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living. Her career has included roles in rural and urban public health, home health, primary health care, a regional health authority and the Public Health Agency of Canada, as well as previously serving as a senior knowledge translation specialist with the NCCDH. Claire is a past president of the Canadian Nurses Association and of the Community Health Nurses of Canada. Her PhD work focused on the capacity for public health leadership to advance health equity, a knowledge base that informs her contributions to the NCCDH, the public health field and community. Claire brings a wealth of expertise, rich networks and a passion to translate knowledge and evidence, especially to position public health to advance health equity.

Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Senior Program Manager, National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID). She supervises NCCID’s comprehensive program of knowledge translation and exchange for public health audiences at all levels of authority. She is also involved in several mathematical modelling research projects, providing sex and gender-based analysis expertise as well as knowledge brokering support. Her training and experience also include mixed-methods research methods and policy development in a number of areas of population and public health. Ms. Haworth-Brockman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba and she has an appointment in Sociology at the University of Winnipeg where she holds a CIHR Research-Policy grant.

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AccessibilityTOPHC is committed to complying with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact 647-260-7100 or tophc@oahpp.ca.

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