For the moment, the project is focused on training activities on how to apply the method for synthesizing knowledge about public policies. We have already worked with public health professionals from Canada and abroad:
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- During a half-day preconference session in June 2011 at the Canadian Public Health Association's Annual Conference;
- During a webinar held in September 2011 with professionals working on healthy public policy in Alberta; and
- During a day-long workshop held in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, organized in collaboration with the Institut national de santé publique du Québec. |
Two other training workshops are also planned: - A day-long
workshop at the JASP (Québec's annual public health days) in Montréal, November 30, 2011; and
- A half-day workshop on April 3, 2012 at The Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC) in Toronto.
Registration for the JASP workshop is already closed, as the session is full. However, we will be on-site at JASP on December 1st with our Method for Synthesizing Knowledge about Public Policies poster and will be happy to discuss this project with you then. As well, we are still planning to hold similar workshops at other Canadian locations – information will be posted on this website as plans are finalized.
We are also at work with three teams working on healthy public policies (in Alberta, Québec and Ontario), providing methodological support to these three groups who have decided to apply the method for synthesizing knowledge to some of their project work.
Finally, in the coming months, we will be developing online training modules showing this method, as well as shorter documents focusing on certain of its elements (for example, the framework for analyzing public policies, and building a logic model).
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in methodological support, workshops or webinars. We would be happy to talk with you.