I know Ann Simard well, mention my name with any application.

Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Management
York University
4700 Keele Street
Room 418, HNES Building
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
416-736-2100, ext. 22134
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael

Of interest:

* NEW * About Canada: Health and Illness
http://tinyurl.com/2c2tm6l

Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential Readings
http://tinyurl.com/ycb4rm5

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition, 
Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/5l6yh9

Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life 
Foreword by Jack Layton
http://tinyurl.com/2hg2df

Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 
2nd edition 
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/yehawne

See a lecture!  The Politics of Population Health
http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d


Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health 
Disparities in Cleveland Ohio
http://www.case.edu/med/ccrhd/education
 




From:   Regina Pinto <[log in to unmask]>
To:     [log in to unmask]
Date:   11/25/2010 08:58 AM
Subject:        [SHPM-LIST] Practicum placement opportunity  - Ontario 
Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.
Sent by:        School Health Policy Management <[log in to unmask]>



  
Attached please find a practicum placement opportunity at the OAHPP.   







Proposed Student Practicum 

Title of Practicum

Supporting research, program evaluation, professional development & 
education and knowledge exchange in public health 

Name of Supervisor: 
E-mail address: 
Phone number:
Anne Simard 
Director of External Relations 
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647 260 7195 

Ideal dates for commencing and ending:
January 3, 2011 to March 31, 2011 
Potential for 12-16 week practicum duration

Physical location of practicum project:
Suite 300, 480 University Avenue, 
Toronto, Ontario

Availability of funds: (if yes, please specify range of what student may 
expect)
Yes, $500 per week as a stipend

Practicum level (Year of study 1 or 2)
Prefer 2nd year, 1st year is acceptable. 





Description 
of the proposed 
practicum 


In January 2011, the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion 
(OAHPP) will begin to play a greater role in supporting applied research 
and program evaluation, professional development and education, and 
knowledge exchange functions in public health. Such functions are key to 
evidence-informed public health practice and to the development of public 
health professionals across the province.  ?? 

OAHPP has engaged health units, professional associations and provincial 
ministries in developing a program that meets the sector?s needs and 
advances health units? ability to meet the Ontario Public Health 
Standards. A multi-step engagement process has included consultations, 
development and dissemination of a discussion paper providing an overview 
of the strategic considerations, principles and menu of potential program 
elements that would support the program functions, survey, focus group. 
The consultation will culminate in program design and implementation in 
late Fall, early Winter 2010/2011. More information about this initiative 
is available on the OAHPP website at 
http://www.oahpp.ca/resources/projects/srke/index.html??This project 
offers students with an interest in program planning, implementation and 
evaluation to be actively involved in the final planning and roll-out of a 
new provincial program. 

Working with the senior planner and director of external relations, 
student activities would include jurisdictional and comparative analyses, 
drafting of policies and support structures for advisory committees 
activities, preparing briefing materials for senior management, 
participating in internal and external planning and implementation teams, 
and engaging with OAHPP programmatic leadership, committee members, 
ministry partners to bring about the implementation. 
Proposed educational objectives 
·        Describe approaches to supporting knowledge exchange, applied 
research, program evaluation and professional development in public health 
as well as approaches to program planning and evaluation; 
·        Discuss the applicability of different approaches (and 
advantages/disadvantages) to the transition underway and new program 
design; 
·        Analyze how the program elements can contribute to meeting the 
needs of the public health units and practitioners; 
·        Integrate theoretical knowledge about program planning and 
evaluation to an element of the new program design; 
·        Create a program logic model and an evaluation framework for one 
of the aspects of the new program design; 
·        Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and 
tools. 
Proposed deliverable at the end of the practicum 
·        A paper outlining a program logic model for one of the elements 
of the new design and a evaluation plan for this same element. 
·        A presentation to the supervisor and senior management on 
student?s work. 



If interested, please submit CV and letter of interest to Keisha Mair at 
[log in to unmask] by Nov. 26.