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This event is presented by the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing (CISP) and the Canadian Red Cross.

Registration is now open Advancing Social Prescribing for Health & Wellbeing.  Join us September 26 to 27, 2024 at The Carlu in Toronto, Ontario for an in-person, international social prescribing conference! This conference will increase awareness, demonstrate and celebrate cross-sectoral collaboration, and generate momentum in advancing social prescribing for health and well-being. It will build collective capacity for social prescribing implementation and scaling, propel local action and spur system change to shift the future of health and social care.

We invite health systems and community leaders, clinical and allied health providers, voluntary organizations, implementers, funders, researchers, policy influencers, and social prescribing champions to join us to explore the transformative power of connection and to collectively propel this global movement toward holistic, equitable community health.

Early bird tickets are sold out. Regular admission is $500 + HST.  Subsidized tickets are available for students and individuals with lived experience requiring support to access the conference, at $50 + HST.

Sponsor and exhibitor opportunities are available. 

Presented by the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Ireland, open to all. 

This webinar will launch IFIC's newest Special Interest Group (SIG) on Leadership for Integrated Care. This webinar is designed to engage a community of practice on integrated care leadership across operational, research, strategy/policy, patients and support networks. The objectives of the session are to: Set the scene and build consensus on issues; Surface issues to be considered from an operational/organisational/academic terms of integrated care and leadership; and Engage a leadership community of practice. The SIG is open to all and to anyone interested in leadership, governance, accountability and capabilities in these areas.

Presented by the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health

Work is a powerful condition of everyday life that can harm or promote the health of workers and their families. Join the NCCDH for this foundational webinar, where the team will introduce core concepts and practical examples to support the public health field to understand and respond to employment and working conditions as key determinants of health and health equity across Canada. 

This webinar is presented by HDRN Canada as part of their Big IDEAS about Health Data speaker series.

In this talk, Dr. Kwame McKenzie and Jemal Demeke of the Wellesley Institute explore the use and governance of sociodemographic data in Canada. With sociodemographic data increasingly recognized as a significant tool to track disparities and advance equity for marginalized populations, they discuss how the Wellesley Institute has been strengthening dialogue in the health sector on how to collect, use and govern these data ethically and responsibly. 

#About the speakers

Dr. Kwame McKenzie is CEO of the Wellesley Institute, a full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and an international expert on the social causes of illness and the development of effective, equitable social policy and health systems. He is also Director of Health Equity at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a practicing psychiatrist. As a policy advisor, clinician, educator and academic with over 240 peer reviewed papers and six books, Dr. McKenzie has worked to improve population health and health services for three decades. His work with colleagues at Wellesley Institute has influenced local and national social policy and his academic research and collaborations have changed teaching, clinical practice and policy in psychiatry.

Jemal Demeke is a researcher at the Wellesley Institute. His research spans topics such as infectious disease epidemiology, implementation science, organizational change and equitable health interventions. He has worked for human rights centres, community-based organizations, Ivy League universities and hospital networks. Black and other racialized communities have a continued presence in his professional focus. He has founded equity initiatives in large organizations, led workshops to educators, healthcare providers and policymakers, and built relationships between community stakeholders and health agencies. His work at the Wellesley Institute leverages these experiences to inform policy change in data management and governance across Canada.

#About the Series

The Big IDEAs About Health Data Speaker Series features a variety of experts discussing how data can be used to advance health equity. It aspires to create a space for conversation about whether and how data can be used to advance equity in Canada; specific uses of and guidelines for the use disaggregated data (sex and gender, race and ethnicity, disability, income, housing, language etc.); and advancements in data research practices and methods that embed inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in algorithms, distributed analytics, community involvement and equity assessment tools.

PLEASE NOTE: This presentation is in English. The webinar will be recorded and posted on hdrn.ca.