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Here is a list of our upcoming events.

April 2013

May 2013

June 2013

Date	Event
May 7, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: Vector-borne diseases: an Ontario update
May 13, 2013	PHO Rounds: Update on raw milk consumption and public health
May 14, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: Using evidence to inform public health decisions: What did we learn from H1N1 in Canada?
May 15, 2013	Seminar: Alcohol policy at a glance
May 16, 2013	PHO Rounds: Epidemiology - Where to stick it: Understanding geocoding and the best level of geographic aggregation
May 21, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: The implications of obesity and excessive gestational weight gain in maternal, fetal, and downstream child outcomes
May 28, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: Review and comparison of Air Quality Index and Air Quality Health Index using Ontario air pollution data
May 31, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: Ethics - Ethics in Action: From Values to Practice in Community Engagement
June 4, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: The Ontario Food and Nutrition Strategy
June 11, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: A provincial assessment of parenting styles in Ontario
June 18, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: Foodborne outbreak investigations: The Minnesota perspective
June 21, 2013	PHO Rounds: Ethics - Empirical public health ethics and the public health ethical reflection tool
July 9, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: Vaccine coverage report
July 16, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: Evidence-informed public policy development for public health practitioners serving a diverse population

We encourage and welcome organizations to partner with us on professional development and education activities. Please contact us at learning@oahpp.ca.

Past events

Date	Event
Apr 30, 2013	PHO Grand Rounds: An introduction to economic evaluation
Apr 26, 2013	PHO Rounds: Ethics: What do we mean by health equity in public health? Assumptions and theoretical commitments
Apr 23, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: “Whose life did you save today through immunization? A celebration of public health’s greatest achievement”
Apr 16, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Provincial Risk Factor Surveillance: Evaluation of the RRFSS Provincial Sample Pilot Project
Apr 16, 2013	Scientific and Technical Seminar: Evolving roles of public health laboratories in the USA and beyond
Apr 17, 2013	Unusual Suspects – ASP Champions from Non-Infectious Diseases/Pharmacy Backgrounds
Apr 18, 2013	PHO Rounds: Epidemiology - Epidemiological exposure investigation of a large-scale community infection control lapse: data linking, management, and analysis
Apr 9, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: School-based oral health screening in the Region of Peel: using local data to better identify high-risk populations
April 3 – 5, 2013	The Ontario Public Health Convention (2013)
April 2, 2013	Helping Build Research Capacity Within Ontario's Public Health Units: Practical Tools for Research Project Design
Mar 28, 2013	Applying theory: social cognitive theory
Mar 28, 2013	Overview of social marketing in public health
Mar 27, 2013	Introduction to indicators
Mar 26, 2013	Developing strong health communication messages
Mar 26, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: HIV Treatment-as-Prevention…what is the evidence and what are the Public Health challenges?
Mar 25, 2013	Éduc’alcool: communicating low-risk drinking guidelines in the province of Quebec
Mar 21, 2013	PHO Rounds: Epidemiology - SaTScan and a Space-Time Permutation Scan Statistic for the Detection of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks
Mar 20, 2013	Bylaw development at a glance and examples from the field
Mar 19, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Resources to guide active community design: an exploration of language, policies, and collaborative actions by planning & public health professionals
Mar 18, 2013	How to leverage social media in public health: elaborating your social engagement strategy
Mar 12, 2013	PHO GRAND GROUNDS: A Systems Approach to Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention and Treatment
Mar 11, 2013	Overview of social media in public health context
Mar 8, 2013	Introduction to indicators
Mar 7, 2013	A good home: basic prescription for good health
Mar 6, 2013,	Evaluation at a glance
Mar 5, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Mapping a pathway for embedding a strengths-based approach in public health practice
Mar 5 2013,	Helping Build Research Capacity Within Ontario's Public Health Units: Practical Tools for Research Project Design
Feb 26, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: The HPV vaccine story
Feb 22, 2013	PHO Rounds: Ethics: Data sharing to advance global public health: ethical challenges and a principled way forward
Feb 21, 2013	PHO Rounds: Epidemiology: Multinomial logistic regression: Analysis of multi-category outcomes and its application to a Salmonella Enteritidis investigation in Ontario
Feb 21, 2013	Helping Build Research Capacity Within Ontario's Public Health Units: Practical Tools for Research Project Design
Feb 20, 2013,	Implementing an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program – Lessons Learned POSTPONED
Feb 19, 2013,	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: 2012 Novel Coronavirus Case Study: Ontario’s Approach to Preparation, Management and Response
Feb 15, 2013,	Facilitators and barriers to the application of Health Equity tools: Results of case study analysis
Feb 12, 2013	Evaluation at a glance
Feb 12, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Influence of the built environment on physical activity, diet and obesity in children
Feb 5, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: What is the Public Health Impact of Casino Gambling Expansion?
Feb 6, 2013	Planning At A Glance
Jan 31, 2013	Introduction to program logic models
Jan 29, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Wind turbines and health: what’s new?
Jan 28, 2013	PHO Rounds: Visiting Speaker: Air Pollution Science for Health Professionals
Jan 25, 2013	PHO Rounds: Ethics: Ethical implications of diversity in disaster research
Jan 24, 2013	Evaluation at a glance webinar
Jan 22, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Surveillance of hospital-acquired infections using EMR data
Jan 21, 2013	PHO ROUNDS: Public health physicians and vaccine safety
Jan 18, 2013	Locally Driven Collaborative Projects: Cycle 3 Launch
Jan 17, 2013	PHO Rounds: Epidemiology: APHEO Core Indicators for Public Health in Ontario: focus on reproductive health Core Indicators
Jan 15, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: The increasing trend in human Salmonella Enteritidis in Ontario: 2003–12
Jan 8, 2013	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: An environmental scan of built environment data related to walkability and environmental exposures in urban Ontario
Dec 20, 2012	PHO Rounds: Epidemiology Using evidence: an applied public health example
Dec 20, 2012	Introduction to program logic models
Dec 18, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Reducing the harm from alcohol: policies, strategies and partners
Dec 17, 2012	Webinar: Alcohol pricing policy in Canada
Dec 13, 2012	IPAC Lunch and Learn: Surveillance in Long Term Care Settings
Dec 11, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: eHealth mobile technology: integrating prevention and health care
Dec 7, 2012	An introduction to planning through an equity lens
Dec 7, 2012	Metrics and Evaluation in Antimicrobial Stewardship
Dec 6, 2012	Applying theory to evaluation: why and how?
Dec 4, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS Canadian Journal of Public Health: 100 years of advancing public health research
Nov 30, 2012	PHO Rounds: Ethics Now - Obesity surveillance of schoolchildren in Ontario: a case study
Nov 27, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: The Emergency Response System: Integrating the Health and non-Health Sectors
Nov 22, 2012	Webinar: Alcohol screening, brief intervention and referral for family physicians and other primary care providers: an alcohol care pathway
Nov 20, 2012	Evaluation of Sparking Life Niagara
Nov 20, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Public health approaches to measuring the urban built environment and its effects on health: a focus on diabetes
Nov 15, 2012	IPAC Lunch and Learn: Construction and Renovation Implications
Nov 15, 2012	PHO Rounds: Epidemiology Alternatives to logistic regression
Nov 13, 2012	SBC-PHO Media Training Workshop
Nov 13, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Expedited partner therapy for chlamydia infections
Nov 7, 2012	PHO-RNAO Nursing Summit – 3: Sudbury + webinar
Oct 26 - Nov 14, 2012	Get in the Know with PHO - IPAC Partners, Programs and Possibilities (multiple dates and locations)
Nov 6, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Food for thought: evidence suggesting opportunities for change in the food choices of children and youth
Oct 31, 2012	PHO-RNAO Nursing Summit – 2: Kingston + webinar
Oct 31, 2012	Tips to Improve and Evaluate Your 2012 Influenza Prevention Program
Oct 30, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Public Health Ethics: Foundations, challenges and frameworks
Oct 26, 2012	PHO Rounds: Visiting Speaker - 2012 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award Recipient Dr. Bruce Greenwood on Preventing Malaria
Oct 26, 2012	PHO Rounds : Ethics Now - Public Health Ethics in Practice: Tuberculosis
Oct 24, 2012	PHO-RNAO Nursing Summit – 1: Toronto + webinar
Oct 23, 2012	PHO GRAND ROUNDS: Syphilis in Ontario: a review of epidemiology and the impact of changes in diagnostic testing
Oct 18, 2012	PHO Rounds: Epidemiology - Give me more “power”!
Oct 16, 2012	PHO Rounds: Opening Eyes, Opening Minds: The Burden of Illness in Ontario of Mental Illness and Addictions
Oct 15-19, 2012	Infection Prevention and Control Week Webinars
Oct 11, 2012	PHO Rounds: Public Health Emergency Preparedness. A gale of two cities: A presentation that will contrast Birmingham, Alabama’s tornado response with that of Goderich, Ontario through the lens of public health, health response and lessons learned.
Oct 9, 2012	PHO Rounds: Not a shot in the dark: restoring confidence in vaccine safety
Oct 2, 2012	PHO Rounds: Evidence-based decision making
Sept 28, 2012	Ethics Now: What Women Who Use Drugs Have to Say About Ethical Research: Findings of an Exploratory Qualitative Study
Sept 26, 2012	The Road to Stewardship: Initiating and Sustaining an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Sept 25, 2012	PHO Rounds: Development of a novel “fever and rash” multiplex molecular assay
Sept 24, 2012	PHO Special Event: Health care worker influenza immunization
Sept 20-21, 2012	3rd Annual Outbreak Management Workshop
Sept 18, 2012	PHO Rounds: Public health nutrition in schools: the comprehensive health promotion approach
Sept 11, 2012	PHO Rounds: Heat alert and response systems to protect the health of Canadians
Sept 7, 2012	PHO Visiting Speaker: Determinants of willingness to respond in public health emergencies: implications for health care workforce surge capacity
Sept 4, 2012	PHO Rounds: Equity in Public Health Standards: A comparison of BC and Ontario
Aug 28, 2012	PHO Rounds: School Health and Immunizations. Presenter: Jill Fediurek
Aug 24, 2012	Ethics Now: Current Topics in Public Health: The Ontario School-Based HPV Vaccination Program: Who benefits? (Postponed - stay tuned for future announcement)
Aug 21, 2012	PHO Rounds: School Health and Dental Health. Presenter: Paul Sharma
Aug 20, 2012	PHO Visiting Speaker: Dr. Heather Manson and Dr. Steve Manske
Aug 14, 2012	PHO Rounds: Promoting safe and healthy recreational water use. Presenter: Peter Heywood
Aug 10, 2012	PHO Special Event : Pertussis epidemiology in Ontario: diagnostic hurdles and case management challenges. Presenter: Shelley Deeks and David Farrell
Aug 7, 2012	PHO Rounds: Evaluating Measles: Act locally; think globally. Presenter: Natasha Crowcroft
July 31, 2012	PHO Rounds: Infectious Diseases at Public Health Ontario
July 24, 2012	PHO Rounds: Sodium levels in hospitals and the need for developing food procurement standards for public institutions
July 17, 2012	Update on (some) federal obesity activities with a focus on healthy eating awareness and education
July 10, 2012	PHO Rounds: Contaminated sites and public health
July 6, 2012	Overview of the Ontario Marginalization Index
July 3, 2012	Everyday probability and statistics
June 29, 2012	Ethics Now: Current Topics in Public Health - Ethics 101: What’s the risk?
June 27, 2012	Action on the Social Determinants of Health: What is the optimal role for Ontario health units?
June 26, 2012	PHO Rounds: Antimicrobial resistant E. coli contamination in Ontario well water
June 26, 2012	Developing an Evidence-informed Alcohol Intervention: Using the Online Health Program Planner (OHPP) to support Decisions about Strategies and Activities
June 25, 2012	Legionella Workshop: Testing, control and more
June 19, 2012	PHO Rounds: Evidence Based Health Emergency Management
June 18, 2012	PHO Visiting Speaker: Clusters of psychogenic illness, the media, and public health: An examination of the cluster of conversion disorder in Le Roy, New York - presented by Public Health Ontario and Toronto Public Health
June 14, 2012	PHO Special Event: PIDAC best practices in infection prevention and control in perinatology: Session 3 of 3
June 14, 2012	Lunch and Learn: AROs Movement of People Along
June 13, 2012	Planning at a Glance Webinar
June 13, 2012	PHO Special Event: PIDAC best practices in infection prevention and control in perinatology: Session 2 of 3
June 12, 2012	PHO Rounds: Canadian Journal of Public Health, 100 years of advancing public health research Presented by Gilles Paradis
June 11, 2012	PHO Special Event: PIDAC best practices in infection prevention and control in perinatology: Session 1 of 3
June 5, 2012	PHO Rounds: Impact of mandatory hospital reporting of C.difficile rates in Ontario
June 4-5, 2012	Skills for Health Promotion Workshop
May 30, 2012	Action on the social determinants of health for health equity
May 29, 2012	Integrating social determinants of health and health equity into Canadian public health practice
May 28-29, 2012	CDI Prevention and Control Workshop
May 25, 2012	Ethics Now: Current Topics in Public Health
May 22, 2012	PHO Rounds: Infection Control Resource Teams
May 22, 2012	Alcohol Policy at a Glance Webinar
May 15, 2012	PHO Rounds: Best Practices for Surveillance of Health Care-Associated Infections
May 17, 2012	Lunch and Learn: Health Hazard & Hoarding
May 10, 2012	Workshop: Policy. Prevention. Promotion. The three Ps for improved health.
May 8, 2012	Foodborne Illness and Outbreak Management
May 8, 2012	PHO's Health Communication at a Glance
May 1, 2012	Seven More Years: The Impact of Smoking, Alcohol, Diet, Physical Activity and Stress on Health and Life Expectancy in Ontario
April 30, 2012	PHO Policy at a Glance Webinar
April 24, 2012	PHO Rounds: Environmental Cleaning Toolkit
April 20, 2012	Ethics Now: Current Topics in Public Health
April 19, 2012	Lunch and learn: Reprocessing of Medical Devices Presented by Karen Clinker
April 17, 2012	PHO Rounds: Doing the math: the dilemma of drug-resistant tuberculosis
April 10, 2012	PHO Rounds: Lyme Disease: Ticks, Testing and Treatment, presented by Dr. Curtis Russell and Dr. Samir Patel
April 2 - 4, 2012	The Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC) 2012
March 30, 2012	PHO Rounds: Public Health Emergency Management and Planning: Core Competencies in Public Health Emergency Management
March 27, 2012	PHO Rounds: Program Logic Models
March 23, 2012	PHO Visiting Speaker: Dr. Wenqi Gan
March 22, 2012	Lunch and Learn: Sexually Transmitted Infections in Older Adults
March 20, 2012	PHO Rounds: Youth Health: Sharing Lessons Learned About Knowledge Exchange
March 20, 2012	PHO/CCO report release: Taking Action to Prevent Chronic Disease: Recommendations for a Healthier Ontario, at Toronto Board of Trade.
March 15, 2012	PHO Rounds: Risk Communications and Vulnerable Populations
March 13, 2012	Introduction to the Online Business Case Creator – A new addition to OHPP 2.0
March 13, 2012	PHO Rounds: Radon Under the Radar: A True Public Health Problem
March 2, 2012	PHO Visiting Speaker: Neoliberalism 3.0: The privatization of almost everything, and what it means for health
March 2, 2012	LDCP Workshop 1: Moving from Possibilities to Projects
February 28, 2012	Introduction to the Online Business Case Creator – A new addition to OHPP 2.0
February 28, 2012	PHO Rounds: Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL)
February 24, 2012	PHO Rounds: Public Health Emergency Preparedness - Radiation Emergencies: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know?
February 21, 2012	PHO Rounds: Social Determinants of Health: Implications for Health Promotion
February 16, 2012	Lunch and Learn: Influenza: Antivirals, Reassortments and Laboratory Testing
February 14, 2012	PHO Rounds: Aperçu du nouveau Créateur d'analyse de cas en ligne (CACL), Presented by Sophie Rosa
February 10, 2012	Public Health Ontario’s New Online Platform: An Overview (a repeat of the session on February 3)
February 7, 2012	PHO Rounds: Putting the public back into public health policy-making
February 3, 2012	Introduction to the Online Business Case Creator – A new addition to OHPP 2.0
February 3, 2012	Public Health Ontario’s New Online Platform: An Overview
January 31, 2012	PHO Rounds: Capturing Influenza Immunization Data: Promising Practices Across Canada, presented by Christine Heidebrecht
January 27, 2012	Locally Driven Collaborative Projects: 2012 Program Launch
January 26, 2012	PHO Public Health Emergency Preparedness Lecture Series – Views of the Landscape: Public Health Preparedness in Canada
January 24, 2012	PHO Rounds: Population-based screening in the maternal-child health context: Evidence-informing policy. Presented by Robin Hayeems
January 20, 2012	PHO Visiting Speaker Series: Validity and Feasibility of Using Biomarkers in Blood and Saliva to Monitor Measles Vaccination Coverage in Rural Bangladesh. Presented by Kyla Hayford
January 17, 2012	PHO Rounds: Lessons of SARS, H5N1 and pH1N: Pandemics or panic-demics?
January 16-17, 2012	Skills for Health Promotion: An Introductory-level Workshop
January 10, 2012	PHO Rounds: Developing infection prevention and control guidance for Maternal/Child programs
December 6, 2011	PHO Visiting Speaker: Accelerating Progress on Prevention of Obesity, Presented by Dr.Steven Kelder
December 12, 2011	Guidance on screening and confirmation of carbapenem resistant enterobacteriacae
December 13, 2011	PHO Rounds: “Policy Recommendations for Physical Activity Promotion: the Chronic Disease Prevention Blueprint Project”, Presented by Ken Allison
November 29, 2011	PHO Rounds: Unique Challenges Requiring Unique Solutions!: The Northwestern Infection Control Network and First Nations, Presented by Karen Clinker and Pat Piaskowski
November 1, 2011	PHO Rounds: A Review of the Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in Ontario, Presented by Dr. Doug Sider and Agnes Tong
November 15, 2011	PHO Rounds: Policy Development in Health Promotion Practice: An Overview of the Steps - Presented by Nimira Lalani
November 21, 2011	Legionella: Biofilms and More
November 23-24, 2011	2nd Annual Vaccine Sciences Symposium 2011
October 4, 2011	PHO Rounds: "Targeting Child Health: Observational and Interventional Studies for Ontario Preschoolers - TARGet Kids!", Presented by Jonathon Maguire
September 28-29, 2011	Outbreak Management Workshop 2011 - Tools to successfully manage Outbreaks in healthcare settings
September 20, 2011	PHO Rounds: Sophie Rosa - Health Communication at a Glance
September 6, 2011	PHO Rounds: Dr. Natasha S. Crowcroft - The Global Burden of Pertussis: how certain are we?
August 9, 2011	PHO Rounds: Michael Chaiton - Taking Tobacco Seriously: Addressing Tobacco Retail Availability
August 3, 2011	Radiation Emergency in Fukushima - Dr. Hiroyuki Hayashi
July 25, 2011	OAHPP Rounds - Dr. Paul White - Hazard & Risk Assessment of Mutagenic Carcinogens in Contaminated Soil
July 5, 2011	PHO Rounds - Dr. Colin Lee and Michael Whelan - Multiple Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections in Ontario
June 28, 2011	PHO Rounds: Mike Catchpole - "Changes to Public Health in England"
June 14, 2011	OAHPP Rounds: pH1N1 – H3N2: A Novel Influenza Virus Reassortment
June 14, 2011	PHO Rounds: Nandini Saxena - Knowledge Exchange 101
May 17, 2011	PHO Rounds - Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Study
May 3, 2011	PHO Rounds - Enabling Action – A Review of Frameworks for Chronic Disease Prevention in Ontario
May 2, 2011	LMP Monday Seminar Series - How microbiology and epidemiology can be happily married: The HPA Aetiological Study of Encephalitis
April 26, 2011	PHO Rounds - A Work In Progress: Just Clean Your Hands Coaching Project for Long Term Care
April 19, 2011	Judyth Gulden - Disaster Management in Emergency Risk Communication
April 6, 2011	The third annual Sheela Basrur Symposium
April 5-8, 2011	The Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC)
April 5, 2011	Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Instrumentation Workshop
March 22, 2011	~~PHO Rounds- “Dr. Colin Lee and Michael Whelan- Multiple Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections in Ontario”~~ CANCELLED
March 10-11, 2011	Evidence to Guide Action - Knowledge Exchange Forum
March 8, 2011	PHO Rounds - Erin Hodge – Distinguishing Between Science and Compliance When Responding to Issues of Environmental Contamination
February 22, 2011	PHO Rounds- "Dr. Kieran Moore: Public Health Informatics Applications in Ontario"
February 28 - March 2, 2011	Risk communication workshop
February 8, 2011	Visiting Speaker: Lyle Palmer "Ontario Health Study"
January 25, 2011	PHO Rounds "Shelley Deeks and Sarah Wilson: HPV Process Evaluation"
January 21, 2011	New program model for supporting applied research and program evaluation, education and professional development and knowledge exchange functions in public health (PHRED program)
January 11, 2011	PHO Rounds "Vanessa Allen: Cholera Clinical Guidelines"

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