2 Day Summer Institute: Community Health & Wellbeing
July 23 & 24 - Lakehead University, Orillia
Featured Presenter: Rod MacRae, PhD, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
 Dr. Rod MacRae is a food policy analyst, focusing on programs and policies to support the transition to health-promoting sustainable food and agriculture systems. Rod's research focuses on creating a national food agriculture policy for Canada, and the set of coherent and comprehensive programs required to support such a policy.
He writes extensively on these themes in the academic and popular press, consults to government, business and NGOs, and teaches at York. He has a PhD from McGill.
Goals of the Institute:
At the Community Health & Wellbeing Summer Institute we will work together to:
Take advantage of early bird pricing until July 7th and attend the Summer Institute for only $300!
Register now
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Community Health and Wellbeing Week
During Community Health & Wellbeing Week organizations across Ontario mount special events that spotlight the need to shift the conversation about health and health care. These events highlight a more comprehensive approach to improving the health of individuals, families and entire communities.
Stay tuned: In July we will share more resources, ideas, tips and present a CHWW organizing webinar.
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Stop the cuts to refugee healthcare
 Reps from AOHC and local CHCs attended the large rally in downtown Toronto on June 16 to call on the federal government to reverse the cuts to the Interim Federal Health program.
Many physicians and nurses shared firsthand stories of how this policy change is having damaging effects on some of the most vulnerable people in our communities - such as pregnant women who have no access to care, and refugees with cancer and diabetes who cannot afford medications. Dr David McKeown spoke of the risk to public health when refugees from Designated Countries of Origin (eg Hungary, Mexico) are no longer eligible for any health coverage and may suffer from infectious diseases. |
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Liberal majority for Ontario
The June 12th election returned Premier Kathleen Wynne to office with a majority Liberal government. Their platform included a number of commitments where we see strong opportunities for AOHC members to play a key role: the planned 'Community Wellness and Culture of Health Strategy' and the promise to expand access to primary health care providers. The Legislature will re-open July 2nd with a budget to be tabled within 20 days. This budget will be the same/ similar to the May budget which included $270 million increased funding for the community health sector for 2014/15, and a new $300 million capital fund over ten years for renewal and expansion of community health infrastructure. We also expect implementation of budget measures relating to poverty reduction.
It's widely expected there will be a new Minister of Health & Long Term Care - AOHC will seek a meeting once announced to hear about her/his priorities and discuss how our members can contribute.
More information on the Liberal healthcare platform |
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Wound Healing and Skin Ulcer Prevention Program seminars
St. Michael's is hosting a series of interdisciplinary and interactive Wound Healing and Skin Ulcer Prevention Program seminars in September and November.
More information
Registration form
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June
August
October
- October 17-19 - Nightingale Connects 2014 - Toronto, ON
November
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Join AOHC: Policy Analyst, Policy & Communications Team
The Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) is seeking an action-oriented Policy Analyst to support a range of primary health care policy and project work.
This is a position that combines two vital ingredients required for successful policy and communications initiatives:
* The ability to identify, analyze, synthesize and report on new data and research to inform evidence-based decision-making related to primary health care policy issues;
* Successful management of multi-pronged projects that involve a strong degree of alignment between research, government relations, media relations and other public engagement efforts.
Read more about this position (pdf)
Other job postings on aohc.org
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