Upcoming Chats
Fireside Chats are FREE pan-Canadian discussions on pressing community health issues, for community health professionals and stakeholder sectors via a simultaneous Telephone and Internet 'conference'.
Upcoming Fireside Chats:
CNA - AQHI a tool for nurses to address climate change
Date & Time: Thursday, 04 March 2010, 01:00 PM — 02:30 PM (Eastern Time)
Diet and Heart Disease
Advisors on Tap:
Dr. Marco Di Buono, Director, Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
Stephen Sammis, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Dr. Kim Raine
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 01:00 PM — 02:30 PM (Eastern Time)
"Knowledge Translation: How Do Researchers Engage Our Partners?"
Advisor on Tap: Anita Kothari, PhD,
Date & Time: Friday, 26 March 2010, 01:00 PM — 02:30 PM (Eastern Time)
How to register for Fireside Chat via www.chnet-works.ca login section
(and answers to other related questions)
For those with Log-in accounts on www.chnet-works.ca
a) Log in using your username and password
b) From the list of Upcoming Fireside Chats, select the topic that
interests you
c) At the bottom of the page - click registration
d) You will receive an automatic email with registration confirmation
and access instructions for the Fireside Chat.
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a) Create a Log-in account, make note of your username and password
b) follow the instructions for those with Log-in accounts for this website.
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after registering.
The same information is sent via email again: 1-2 working days and again 1-2
hours prior to the 'chat'.
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Past Web Seminars
Climate Change and Aboriginal Health in Canada -
Challenges to Adaptation - Dec 2, 2009
This Fireside Chat is a partnership between Canadian Network for Human Health and the Environment and CHNET-Works!
http://www.chnet-works.ca
In this Fireside Chat we bring together two disparate bodies of scholarship – climate change and Indigenous health – to identify and characterize challenges to adaptation to the health effects of climate change among Indigenous peoples. We focus on Canada’s Aboriginal population, whose experience of continuing and pervasive socio-political-health inequality confronts the notion that developed nations will be insulated from the worst effects of climate change.
While opportunities exist to prevent, reduce and manage the effects of climate change, five key challenges are likely to constrain action in absence of intervention: information, poverty and income disparity, technological capacity, socio-political values and inequality, and institutional capacity.
Overcoming these challenges requires a new public health movement focusing on collaboration and cooperation between policy makers, scientists, health professionals, and Aboriginal peoples, and a focus on capacity building at local, regional, and federal levels.
Ultimately, efforts to reduce vulnerability and adapt to climate change will fail unless the broader social determinants of Aboriginal health and existing health inequalities are addressed.
Advisors on Tap:
Dr James D. Ford
Assistant Professor, McGill University, Dept. of Geography
Bio:
Dr James D. Ford, is an assistant professor in geography at McGill University.
Dr Ford works with Aboriginal communities on climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning, and received a major award from the Canadian government for his innovative community based research.
A Nobel Prize winner as a contributing author to the IPCC fourth assessment report, he is currently focusing on public health in a changing climate among Canada’s Aboriginal population.
He has also worked closely with Aboriginal organizations and government agencies on climate change adaptation planning. |
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Pesticides May 21, 2009
Seminar Agenda:
Pest Management Regulatory Agency Summary
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Speaker: Gideon Forman
Topic: What lobbying actions did CAPE undertake in order for the ban to be successful?
Length of talk: 20 minutes
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Canadian Environmental Law Association
Speaker: Kathy Cooper
Topic: The potential legal ramifications of the Ontario decision and the Dow court challenge: Could there be a repeat in Ontario?
Length of talk: 20 minutes
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Questions/comments arising from the webinar
Pesticides Webinar - May 21, 2009
Q: Is the PMRA using the developmental neurotoxicity data being generated via the USEPA Data Call--in for OP pesticides, and possibly the carbamates in their evaluations to protect children's neurodevelopment? Apparently EPA has 70-80 DNT studies to date.
Barbara McElgunn, RN
Health Policy Advisor
Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
A: The PMRA requires that the developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) study be submitted as part of it's toxicology data requirements for specific pesticides, both for new pesticide applications and for pesticides under re-evaluation. Criteria are in place that describe under what conditions a DNT study is necessary. DNT studies were required for the organophosphate pesticides that underwent re-evaluation as well as for some carbamates. Many of these studies have been reviewed by the PMRA, or reviews are in progress.
André Poliquin, B.Sc., M.P.M.
Project Manager
Pest Management Regulatory Agency / Health Canada
Introduction to the Chemicals Management Plan - March 5th, 2009
Seminar Agenda:
Grant Hogg (Manager Program Development and Engagement Division, Risk Management Bureau, Health Canada) gave an overview of the CMP and how it is designed, how it works, what it has done to date. Download presentation to your computer
Philana Dolan (National Caucus Coordinator and Coordinator Capacity Building Project for the CMP, Canadian Environmental Network) gave a summary of the RCEN’s Capacity Building Project. Download presentation to your computer
Anna Tilman (Chair, CMP Advisory Committee for the Capacity Building Project) provided her perspectives on the CMP and its progress to date.
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