• Promoting Vaginal Health to Reduce Risk of HIV in ACB WomXn

    Event Date: Friday, August 18, 2023 - 10:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 10 am - 2 pm
    Cost: Free
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    #Let's Talk About it: Vaginal Health

    This KTE will inform on certain bacteria that may impact vaginal health and report on related cutting edge research.

  • OSSU 2023 Annual Research Day

    Event Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 15:15
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    The day will highlight what is new in data access, hear further conversations around how Ontario continues to navigate within a learning health system and hear a patient experience panel share their thoughts. 

    This is a hybrid online/in-person event. The in-person component has reached capacity and registration for it has been closed. Registration for the online component is open at the link below. 

  • PxP: For patients, by Patients

    Event Date: Saturday, August 12, 2023 - 09:00
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    Time: September 12 - 14, times vary by day
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    PxP is a brand new conference about patient engagement, led and designed by patients, specifically for patients. Unlike other patient engagement resources, which are designed primarily for researchers, this one is tailored for patient partners and other individuals with lived experience. Researchers are also welcome to attend!

    Check out the online PxP Resource Hub online hub or sign up for the PxP newsletter for more patient-developed resources about patient engagement.

  • Service Providers Workshop Series on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

    Event Date: Friday, August 4, 2023 - 09:45
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    Time: 9:45 am - 12:30 pm, weekly from August 4 through 25
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    Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is recognized internationally as a human rights violation and a form of gender-based violence. Over 200 million women and girls globally have undergone some form of FGM/C, and it is estimated that over 100 thousand reside in Canada.

    Service providers play a key role in ensuring survivors receive the proper care that addresses their unique physical and mental health needs, but many are inadequately equipped to provide culturally appropriate, sensitive, respectful and dignified care.

    This 4-part hybrid workshop series aims to strengthen health, social and community service providers' knowledge about FGM/C and the provision of quality care to survivors.

  • Gender Identity, Sexual Diversity and Health Equity in Public Health

    Event Date: Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 13:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    This webinar, presented by the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health, will feature a panel of experts who are working in the 2SLGBTQI+ space to support community and public health action on inequities related to gender and sexual identity. This webinar will review foundational concepts and practical applications to support the Canadian public health. 

    This webinar will be of interest to anybody looking to build individual and organizational capacity to improve health inequities for 2SLGBTQI+ populations, including health practitioners, professionals, policy makers and decision makers, instructors and educators, students and researchers and service providers. 

  • Reporting tools for the Social Prescribing for Better Mental Health project

    Event Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - 12:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Alliance Event
    Time: 12:00 pm
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    The Alliance for Healthier Communities is hosting a Lunch and Learn session to review reporting tools for the Social Prescribing for Better Mental Health project.

    This session will walk through how to report data from the updated custom forms, along with an open Q&A discussion with participants. Audience: This session is for sites who are receiving funding through the Social Prescribing for Better Mental Health Project, and Alliance members implementing the updated custom forms. Anyone who enters client data into the EMR, will be pulling client data from the EMR, or would like to learn about project reporting requirements is encouraged to participate in this Lunch and Learn.

  • Webinar: Spotlight on Health and Climate Change

    Event Date: Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 09:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 9-10 am EDT (2-3 pm BST)
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    Join a panel of experts as they share how health voices can be better heard in climate negotiations through activism, engaging future generations, and influencing climate policy. Presented by The Lancet. 

    #Overview

    It has been recognised for decades by the global and public health community that the climate crisis is a health crisis, yet the opportunity to influence and affect change has not been fully realised.

  • Lunch 'n' Learn Webinar: Strategies and Tools to Support Equity, Safety, and Quality in Virtual Care Delivery

    Event Date: Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 12:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Alliance Event
    Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
    Cost: Free
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    Join us on Thursday, June 22, to learn about resources and strategies that can support informed decisions about virtual care.

  • Are we giving falls the respect they deserve? Role of the nervous system and the Care Pathway

    Event Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 12:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 12-1 pm
    Cost: FREE
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    June is brain injury awareness month. Join Judy Gargaro, Matheus Wiest and Janelle Unger to discuss the intersectionality between falls and neurotrauma, evidence-based care pathways and targeted treatment approaches to prevent falls.

  • Connected Communities: Building Equitable Integrated Healthcare

    Event Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 08:00
    Event Type: Annual Conference
    Internal/External: Alliance Event
    Cost: Please check the registration link
    Event description:

    We cordially invite you to join us in person for Connected Communities: Building Equitable Integrated Healthcare. Alliance's Primary Health Care Conference will focus on ways to centre community voices and needs, and how to build foundations on comprehensive primary health care, health promotion, chronic disease prevention and management, and actively addressing the determinants of health (housing, income, food security, etc.).

    Chose from 26 learning sessions, attend four thought-provoking plenaries, and be a part of countless networking sessions!

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