With one month to go, there are now 400 registrants for the Social Determinants
of Health Across the Life-Span conference in Toronto.
There are only 100 places left.

Registration and conference information is at  http://www.socialjustice.org

Friday, November 29

 12:00 - 5:00 PM

 Pre-Conference Workshop
 Dennis Raphael  >> Associate Professor, School of Health Policy and Management,
 York
 University
 Connie Clement  >> Executive Director, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse

  Raising the Profile of the Social Determinants of Health: Experiences
  in Canada and the USA

   Dennis Raphael and Connie Clement will initiate group discussion by
   describing their efforts to raise the profiles of SDOH. Working groups will
   discuss successes, challenges and making connections with media,
   broad activist/social justice communities, public health and health care
   workers, elected representatives, and academics.

 7:00 PM

 Opening Remarks
 Scott Broughton
 Assistant Deputy Minister of Health
 Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada
 Lorna Marsden
 President, York University
 Alan Bernstein
 President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (invited)

   8:00 PM
 Keynote Address

The State of Canadian Health Care Services and Its Impact as a
Determinant of Health

   Health services have a direct impact on health and an indirect impact on
   other social determinants of health. Dr. Rachlis' session will assess the
   current state of Canadian health care and reflect on their role on the social
   determinants of health.

 Michael Rachlis  >>
 Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy,
 Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine,
 University of Toronto

   8:45 PM
 Questions and Comments

9:15 PM
      Reception and Poster Session

Saturday, November 30
 9:00 AM - 10:40 AM

 Income and Income Distribution
Speaker:
   Katherine Scott  >>  Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian Council on Social
   Development, Ottawa

Respondent:  Richard Lessard  >>   Director of Public Health, R



égie régionale de
 la santé et des
   Services sociaux de Montréal-Centre

 Employment Security and Unemployment

  Speaker:    Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay  >>
   Professor and Director of Research, Tele-University of the
   University of Québec

Respondent:    Andrew King  >>
   National Health, Safety and Environment Coordinator
   United Steelworkers of America

  10:40 AM - BREAK

  10:55 AM - 12:30 PM
  Employment and Working Conditions

  Speaker:   Andrew Jackson  >> Senior Economist, Canadian Labour Congress,
Ottawa

Respondent:   Michael Polanyi  >> Assistant Professor,
 Saskatchewan Population Health Research and Evaluation Unit,
 and Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of
 Regina

  Social Safety Net

  Speaker:   Yves Vaillancourt  >> Professor, School of Social Work,  University
 of Quebec in Montreal

Respondent:
 Pat Armstrong  >> Chair in Health Services and Nursing Research, Canadian
 Health Services Research Foundation / Canadian Institutes of
 Health Research, and Professor, Department of Sociology, York
 University

12:30 PM - 1:35 PM - LUNCH

 1:35 PM - 5:15 PM

 Early Life
Speaker:  Martha Friendly  >>Director, Childcare Resource and Research Unit,
Centre for
Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto

  Respondent:  Gina Browne  >>Professor, Nursing and Clinical Epidemiology &
Biostatistics,
and Director, System-Linked Research Unit, McMaster University


 Education
  Speaker:   Charles Ungeleider  >> Professor, Sociology of Education,
University of British
 Columbia and former Deputy Minister of Education for the Province of British
Columbia

Respondent:   Daniel Keating  >> Atkinson Professor of Early Child Development
and Education,
 Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology at  the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education/University of
 Toronto
 Fellow and Director, Program in Human Development, Canadian  Institute for
Advanced Research

  Food Security
  Speaker:   Lynn McIntyre  >> Professor, Faculty of Health Professions,
Dalhousie University

Respondent:   Valerie Tarasuk  >> Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional
 Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

  Housing

Speaker:   Sharon Chisholm  >> Executive Director, Canadian Housing Renewal
Association, Ottawa
Respondent:   Toba Bryant  >> Post-doctoral fellow, Centre for Health Studies,
York University

  Sunday, December 1

  9:30 AM

  Social Exclusion

  Speaker:   Grace-Edward Galabuzi  >> Researcher, Centre for Social Justice
 Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, York University

Respondent:   Ronald Labonte  >> Director Saskatchewan Population Health and
Evaluation
 Research Unit  Professor, Community Health and Epidemiology, University of
 Saskatchewan Professor, Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina

  Closing Plenary

Moving from Research to Policy and from Policy to Action

 Chair:  John Frank  >>    Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Population and
 Public  Health

 Panelists:        Ken Battle  >>  President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy

            Jack Layton  >> Councillor, City of Toronto and former President of
the Federation of Canadian Municipalities

            Madeline Dion Stout  >>
  Consultant on Aboriginal health issues, and former Director of   the Centre
for Aboriginal Education, Research and Culture,
  Carleton University

  Shirley Douglas (invited)  Chair, Canadian Health Coalition

  Joanne Roulston  >>  Executive Director, National Council of Welfare