Webinars: PHESC On-Demand Webinar Series

This on-demand webinar series, offered through the 2018–2020 Public Health Training for Equitable Systems Change (PHESC) project, will help you better understand the requirements of the Ontario Public Health Standards through a health equity lens. 

Full series duration: Six ~30-minute modules (approximately 3.5 hours to complete in full)

Format: On-demand, meaning that these webinars are pre-recorded and can be viewed at any time. 

• On-Demand Webinar 1: Introduction to Health Equity (38:03)
• On-Demand Webinar 2: Assessing and reporting on health inequities (37:59)
• On-Demand Webinar 3: Approaches to developing equitable public health interventions and strategies (29:33)
• On-Demand Webinar 4: Moving upstream: Working across sectors to decrease health inequities (28:02)
• On-Demand Webinar 5: Policy development and advocacy to improve health equity (33:36)
• On-Demand Webinar 6: Racial Health Equity: Embracing a decolonial, anti-racist practice (38:08)

Location: Online

Cost: Free

Contact the NCCDH (nccdh@stfx.ca) for more information.

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On-Demand Webinar 5: 

The NCCDH will launch this on-demand webinar on policy development and advocacy to decrease health inequities.

In line with requirement #4 of the Health Equity Standard under the Ontario Public Health Standards, and guideline 6.4 of the Ontario Health Equity Guideline, 2018, this on-demand webinar will explore policy development in the public health context, and the importance of advocacy as a public health role.

This content explores the meaning of systems change in the public health context, and the importance of language in addressing the social determinants of health and health inequities.

Listeners will learn about

• public health’s role in leading and supporting policy development and advocacy;
• downstream-, midstream- and upstream-level interventions;
• the steps involved in healthy public policy development;
• advocacy roles for public health professionals; and
• choosing advocacy tools appropriate for effective public health practice.

Register here for "On-Demand Webinar 5"