ACCESS Health Enabling What Canadians Want for Their Health Care System April 22, 2020 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT     Fraser Ratchford, Senior Director ACCESS Health at Canada Health Infoway joins MindWell Founder and Chief Training Officer, Dr. Geoff Soloway for this upcoming webinar on Canada Health Infoway (Infoway)'s ACCESS 2022 movement....

Farm to School BC & Can You Dig It Orchestrating a Growing Movement in the City of Victoria     On April 2nd , 2020, the City of Victoria passed a motion to 1) temporarily reprioritize the focus of some Parks Department capacity to grow food plants from seed in the municipal nursery and greenhouses...

Join us on April 22, 2020, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. (ET) for a conversation on community impacts and responses related to food security, disability and ethics. As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, it follows and amplifies lines of existing inequities. We recognize that you, our friends and colleagues in the public health community, are...

Don’t Let Them Down Understanding Youth Vaping and What We Can Do About It        Public Health researcher, Dr. David Hammond found that vaping increased by a stunning 74% among 16-19 year olds from 2017 to 2018; and with that cigarette smoking increased by 45% in the same period.     Please join...

Public Health Intelligence Rapid Implementation of an Open-Source Contact Tracing Solution     Gevity is holding an educational webinar open to all on Monday April 27th at 10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT. Anushka Premji-Osman and Marc Koehn will demonstrate for public health officials the WHO’s open-source contact tracing software, Go.Data, and share their insights and...

Farm to School Webinar Series Small But Mighty Farm to School in a Rural-Remote Context     Learn about the Farm to School on Gabriola Island in a Rural-Remote Context. We will be learning from Kenda Chang-Swanson, Food Programs Coordinator from People for a Healthy Community   Kenda will share the story of her small...

Buildings, Occupants and the Changing Environment National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health   Presenter: Dr. Karen Bartlett, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia     Occupants of buildings depend on what we term “good” Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ). The actual definition of IEQ is somewhat elusive, as it is the absence...