Hello all,

Excuse what may seem to some as blatant self-promotion and please
indulge a little horn blowing here. We are so proud of Peggy, I
couldn't resist to share this with you. Those of you who know Peggy
will agree that this is a well deserved honour indeed. Peggy always
considered Ron a mentor, so you can imagine what this award means to
her!

Hope everyone is having an enjoyable summer wherever you are!

Best Regards,
JM Dupont

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Peggy Edwards of The Alder Group wins Health Promotion Award

Ottawa, July 4, 2002 – On Monday, July 8, 2002, the Canadian Public
Health Association will honour Peggy Edwards, as someone who has
contributed significantly to the field of public health. The award
will be presented at the 93rd Annual Conference of CPHA, to be held in
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Ms. Edwards, a principal of The Alder Group, an Ottawa-based health
promotion consulting firm, will be awarded with the Ron Draper Health
Promotion Award for her immense contribution to community work in
health.  The Ron Draper Health Promotion Award is presented to an
individual, group or organization engaged in community work who has
made a significant contribution to health promotion by working to
build healthy public policy, create environments that support health,
enable community actions, enhance personal skills and re-orient health
services.

Among Ms. Edward's many accomplishments:

- Principal author of Second Report on the Health of Canadians, a
public policy report for the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Advisory
Committee on Population Health.

- One of the original ParticipACTION team, developing and writing much
of their health material

- Author of the World Health Organization’s Active Ageing, A Policy
Framework

- Developer of a training program in healthy child development for
recreation leaders and supervisors in collaboration with a development
team, on behalf of Parks and Recreation Ontario and the Ontario
Ministry of Culture and Recreation.

- Co-author of The Healthy Boomer, a comprehensive guide to midlife
health, and its soon-to-be-released follow-up, The Juggling Act:  The
Healthy Boomer’s Guide to Achieving Balance in Midlife

- Authored a booklet for the public on the determinants of health
entitled Nurturing Health: A New Understanding of What Makes People
Healthy for the Premier's Council on Health, Well-Being and Social
Justice (Ontario).

- Author of numerous articles on health in national magazines
(Canadian Living, Mclean’s)

- Drafted A Vision of Health for Children and Youth in Canada
(national goals) for Health Canada.

- Consultant to the Palestinian and Costa Rican Public Health
Associations, Barcelona Olympic Games Smoke-Free Committee, and the
World Health Organization Healthy Cities office in preparing the
Second International Conference on Health Promotion.

For further information about Peggy, please visit
http://www.aldergroup.com, or contact her bytelephone  at
+613.730.0378 or by email at [log in to unmask] or
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