Mandate
The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) seeks to increase the expertise of public health actors across Canada in healthy public policy through the development, sharing and use of knowledge. We provide public health actors and partners with relevant research-based information and tools about the potential health impact of policies and about public policy processes themselves to increase their ability to contribute to these processes and improve the public's health across Canada.
Goals
- Synthesize knowledge to support healthy public policy adoption at all levels.
- Encourage the development of methods for knowledge synthesis, translation, exchange and use appropriate to healthy public policy.
- Disseminate knowledge about healthy public policy and about policy-making processes themselves to make it useful and accessible to public health actors and their partners across Canada.
- Identify critical knowledge gaps and stimulate work in priority areas relevant to healthy public policy.
- Collaborate with interested actors, policy makers and researchers to develop quality knowledge products and tools.
Work to Date
- Produced documents, training resources and tools in health impact assessment (HIA), recognizing its status as a key tool for promoting healthy public policy in Canada.
- Developed the Method for Synthesizing Knowledge about Public Policies, which considers the best available effectiveness evidence, equity, and implementation issues of concern to decision makers; published a practical application of the method with a knowledge synthesis on nutrition-labelling policies.
- Produced The Tobacco Story in Canada: 1900 until today, an interactive timeline that tracks how different factors influenced public policies on tobacco during the 20th Century.
- Produced the Structural Profile of Public Health in Canada, an online tool for tracking how public health functions are organized in each province and territory.
- Redesigned our website www.ncchpp.ca with more resources, links, project updates and interactive features. The site now features over 100 publications and presentations, each available in English and French.
Current Activities 2011-2012
- In addition to publishing a range of work in our established project areas and developing new areas relevant to healthy public policies, the Centre is offering a series of workshops and presentations. These may be developed in a variety of formats from 1-3 hours to a day or more and through different channels including webinars. Workshops and presentations for 2011-2012 were developed in the following areas:
- Method for Synthesizing Knowledge about Public Policies
- Health Impact Assessment: Practical Application at the Local and Regional Levels
- Public Policy: An Introduction for Public Health
- Deliberative Processes: For whom, Why and How?
- Public Health Ethics: Key Reference Points and Applications
- Understanding Media Communications: The Encoding/Decoding Approach
- Wicked Problems and Deliberation: A Method for Advancing Intersectoral Dialogue
- Transportation Policies and Health Inequalities: Avenues for Mapping Policy Interventions
- Traffic Calming Strategies: Understanding their Effects
- Please contact us to find out more about these presentations, and to know how and where they could be made available for you.
Host
Institut national de santé publique du Québec
Contact Information
National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy
Institut national de santé publique du Québec
190 Boulevard Crémazie East
Montreal, QC H2P 1E2
Phone: 514-864-1600, ext 3615
Fax: 514-864-5180
email: ncchpp@inspq.qc.ca
www.ncchpp.ca