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BC Immunization Forum 2022 – March 1 & 2 FREE & ONLINE
Providing a forum for sharing scientific, policy, and operation lessons learned and to inform the planning and delivery of immunization programs in British Columbia.
Tuesday morning, March 1, 9:00 a.m. – noon
and
Wednesday afternoon, March 2, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 pm.
Sessions will be virtual, via Zoom from UBC Robson Square.
This event is for public health professionals, immunization providers, nurses, physicians, midwives, pharmacists, naturopathic physicians, program managers and leaders.
Registration:
Click on the Eventbrite link below and enter your name and email address:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bc-immunization-forum-2022-registration-250892695807
The forum will be held on Zoom; Please click here for helpful tutorials: www.Zoom.us and test your Zoom link at this link: https://zoom.us/test
On the days of the Forum the feed will be live 30 minutes ahead of start time with an identifying slide so you can test your connection. This event is webinar style and you will not be visible to other participants.
Slido will be used to manage questions, answers, and polls. To participate in the Q&A via Slido, go to www.Sli.do and enter the access code, or you can download it from the App store to your personal device. The Access code is #ImmsForum2022 and it will become active on March 1, before 9:00. This is where and how you can ask questions of the speakers by typing them into the app. You can “upvote” others’ questions that you think are important by “liking” them, which you do by clicking on the thumbs up symbol beside their question. The moderator will present the most important questions to the speaker.
Send your questions to ImmsForum@bccdc.ca
Statement from the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health (CCMOH) on the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic response
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Open in new tab Community Health Nurses of Canada Conference: Call for Abstracts
The Community Health Nurses of Canada are excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for CHNC2022: Community Health Nurses: Responsive, Reflective, Resilient, our national Community Health Nursing conference.
CHNC2022 will take place entirely online, on June 8-10, 2022.
Our goal is advancing Community Health Nursing in Canada and you are invited to join a dynamic group of nurses from across Canada who will come together and share their community health knowledge.
The CHNC2022 conference theme acknowledges that Community Health Nurses have been at the heart of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while continuing to ensure that other health needs of Canadians in their communities were also addressed. The past two years have generated an ongoing need to be reflective about nursing practice, determinants of health, Truth and Reconciliation, and more. As time moves forward, the need to be resilient draws upon nurses’ ability to regroup, recharge and reconnect with partners and colleagues.
Our conference brings together individuals who have an interest in Community Health Nursing from practice, research, administration, policy and education. Networking opportunities offer a forum to explore issues of mutual concern as well as exchange knowledge, share evidence and ideas, and generate solutions.
Abstracts are due by March 4, 2022. (Were you accepted to present at CHNC2020? You should have received an update message from CHNC with instructions for proceeding; if not, please be in touch — you may not need to submit your abstract again)
For more information, please visit the conference website at https://CHNC2022.ca
Showcase your company to leaders in community health nursing! CHNC2022 offers opportunities for sponsorship, exhibiting and advertising — great exposure with no travel costs! For more information, please view our CHNC2022 Prospectus.
Dr. Richard Stanwick Retires
The Board of the Public Health Association of BC would like to congratulate Dr. Richard Stanwick on his retirement after nearly 26 years in BC’s Public Health sector. Dr. Stanwick served with care and distinction. He has served at the forefront of the opioid crisis establishing the first supervised injection site in Victoria, and provided us all unwavering support during the pandemic.
His accolades include the notable Canadian Public Health Association Devries award; however, this is only one of many recognitions of his outstanding service to public health in Canada.
We appreciate Dr. Stanwick’s delayed retirement in order to ensure the best outcomes and management of the Coronavirus pandemic in the Island Health region.
Dr. Stanwick has been an active supporter of PHABC, providing advice and encouragement over his many years of service.
Perhaps most importantly, Dr. Stanwick led the way on working with municipal and regional governments to establish healthy public policy and regulation designed to address health hazards, like smoking, bicycle helmets, and tanning beds.
In partnership with our association, Dr. Stanwick spearheaded a bicycle helmet safety campaign with British Columbian youth that saw hundreds of hand-crafted postcards sent to provincial legislators. The rest, as they say, is history. Dr. Stanwick helped to forge a powerful pathway for advocates seeking to promote healthy communities based on scientific evidence with both organized governance and accountability. That legacy will stand the test of generations and represents a profound contribution to public and population health.
