Children and young people (ages: 7-18) have need support in staying healthy. This is especially true when it comes to how they understand health information and when they think about what it means to be “healthy”. We call this their “health literacy”. Health literacy means their ability to understand and use information about their health....

Registration is now available: https://ubc.eventsair.com/in9543/registration/Site/Register Course Description Diabetes is an emerging epidemic. No matter what area of healthcare you work in, you will encounter people affected by diabetes. New approaches to diabetes management are continuously appearing. This comprehensive course is for health professionals from a variety of disciplines who face diabetes in practice. The goal...

Reminder: The extended deadline for submissions of oral presentations is 28th February and for posters is 31st March, 2016. The 4th Annual Weight Stigma Conference will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada April 29 and 30, 2016. For more information about this conference please see: http://stigmaconference.com/abstract-submission/

The 4th annual weight stigma conference is happening! Despite the growth of weight stigma scholarship, weight-based oppression continues to be dominant within society, where thinness is privileged and fatness is oppressed. Given the harmful psychological and physiological consequences of weight stigma, exploring ways to change cultural attitudes and beliefs about body size is, therefore, evermore...

Looking for tools to support program evaluation? Is there a program or initiative in your health department, unit or regional health authority that you would like to evaluate? Establishing a plan for conducting the evaluation is a key step in gathering, analysing and reporting on data to assist in decision making. The Program evaluation toolkit can help!...

Save the Date! The Centre for Health Science and Law (CHSL) will host a one-day expert conference on public health nutrition law and science on the occasion of the annual standard-setting negotiations of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling, the joint commission of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organziation that sets...