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
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