TOPHC 2011 Presentations
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
1. A Health-Equity Assessment Framework for Ontario's Public Health Units
Presented by: Brian Hyndman, Ingrid Tyler, Daniela Seskar-Hencic
2. DNA Sequencing, Clinical Genomics and Public Health
Presented by: David Alexander
3. Leveraging Web 2.0 Technologies for Enhanced Syndromic Surveillance: Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington's (KFL&A's) Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Programme Delivers Improved Real-Time Analytics and Visualization
Presented by: Kieran Moore, Adam Van Dijk, Paul Belanger
4. Public Health Approaches to Managing HIV (Non-) Disclosure
Presented by: Jonathan Betteridge
5. The Role of Evaluation in Evidence-Informed Decision-Making
Presented by: Dayna Albert, Marla Steinberg
6. Rethinking the All-Hazards Approach: Moving from Response to Preparedness
Presented by: Judyth Gulden, Fayola Creft, Richard Bochenek
7. Developing a Community of Practice for Program Indicators
Presented by: Allan Northan, Vic Sahai, Lisa Atchison, Susan Boston, Carol Woods
8. From SARS to H1N1: What Have We Learned - A Discussion on How the Ontario Health Care and Public Health Systems Can Benefit from the Continued Development of the Incident-Management System (IMS)
Presented by: Clint Shingler, Richard Bochenek, Mike Morton, Brian Schwartz, Jim Montgomery, Jill Courtemanche
9. Tobacco Endgame: Evidence, Knowledge Exchange and Politics (So Close and Yet So Far)
Presented by: Robert Schwartz, Heather Manson, Michael Perley, Hazel Lynn, Roberta Ferrence, Michael Chaiton, Dave Hammond, Shawn O'Connor
10. What About Food Skills?
Presented by: Ruth Sanderson, Collen Kiel, Melody Roberts, Elizabeth Smith, Pat Vanderkooy, Marian Yusuf
Thursday, April 7, 2011
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
1. Infectious Disease and Emergency Management
Moderated by: Ian Gemmill
1.a) Managing H1N1 Communications for Ontario
Presented by: Don Willison, Kevin Finnerty
1.b) Preferences for Rapid Point-of-Care HIV Testing in a Female Family Medicine Population
Presented by: Michael Schwandt, Eileen Nicolle, Sheila Dunn
1.c) Ranking the Burden of Infectious Disease: the Ontario Burden of Infectious Disease Study (ONBOIDS)
Presented by:Jeff Kwong, Michael Campitelli, Sujitha Ratnasingham, Nick Daneman, Shelley Deeks, Doug Manuel, Natasha Crowcroft
1.d) Vulnerable and At-Risk Populations During Emergencies with Public Health Significance: A Review and Analysis
Presented by: Yasmin Khan, Brian Schwartz
2. Technology
Moderated by: Jessica Hopkins
2.a) Creating healthytimiskaming.ca: A Bilingual Online Network Made by and for Timiskaming
Presented by: Amanda Mongeon
2.b) SIMID: A Tool for SIMulation of Infectious Disease Enabling Spatio-Temporal Visualization of the Dynamics of Influenza Outbreaks
Presented by: Eileen de Villa, Matt McPherson, Lilia Lecticia, Ramirez Ramirez
2.c) Sloshed: Using Video Games to Illustrate Consequences of Binge Drinking
Presented by: Ken Hudson, Jean Terhaar
3. Making Ontario the Healthiest Province in Canada
Moderated by: Doug Manuel
Presented by: Doug Manuel, Linda Stewart, Michelle Gold, Heather Manson, James Mandigo
4. Moving Injury Prevention Forward in Ontario
Presented by: Benjamin Rempel
5. The Toronto Food Strategy: A New Approach to Bridging Community and City Government
Presented by: Seodhna Keown, Len Mirander, Violetta Cardella, Brian Cook
6. Managing Difficult TB Cases and Situations
Presented by: Elizabeth Rea, Marnie Kraguljac
7. Multi-Jurisdictional Real-Time Exchange of Public Health Information: A Case for Fusion Centres
Presented by: Judyth Gulden, Richard Bochenek
8. Situational Assessment and Program Planning: THCU Tools that Support the Ontario Public Health Records
Presented by: Jodi Thesenvitz, Larry Hershfield
9. New Research in Alcohol Policy
Presented by: Norman Giesbrecht, Robert Mann, Carly Heung, Benjamin Rempel
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
1. Applying a Population-Health Approach to Planning and Decision-Making
Presented by: Emily Maddocks, Lisa Corscadden
2. Brief Contact Cessation Interventions: Working Together to Support Tobacco-Use Cessation
Presented by: Lynn Johnston, Lynn Ward
3. Don't Hazard a Guess: Learning How to Develop a Hazard-Identification Risk Assessment (HIRA) and a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) for Your Organization
Presented by: Judyth Gulden, Richard Bochenek
4. Evidence-Informed Public Health Decisions Made Easy: Take it One Step at a Time
Presented by: Jacqueline Muresan, Kara DeCorby, Donna Ciliska, Paula Robeson, Maureens Dobbins
5. Introduction to Environmental Investigations for Public Health
Presented by: Rena Chung, Erin Hodge
6. Knowlegde Exchange and Bringing Evidence to Practice: Supporting the Foundational Standard
Presented by: Ingrid Tyler, Nandini Saxena, Beverly Bryant, Isabel Michel, Susan Snelling, Megan Ward, Penny Sutcliffe
7. Policy Development Skills
Presented by: Nancy Dubois
8. Public Health Planning for Mass Gathering Events - Lessons from the G8 and G20
Presented by: Jessica Harris, Brian Schwartz, Charles Gardner, Mark Lysyshyn, Howard Shapiro
9. Using Social Marketing to Change Behaviour
Presented by: Linda Yenssen, Pat Cliché
10. Ontario Public Health Innovations: Global Applications
Presented by: Arlene King, Kamran Khan, Niall Wallace, George Ross, Megan Ward, Lynne Hanna, Vivek Goel
Friday, April 8, 2011
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
1. Building a Learning Organization
Presented by: Ingrid Tyler, Carol Timmings
2. Exchanging Evidence and Ideas to Improve the Health of Francophone Communities in Ontario
Presented by: Maire Hélène Chomienne, Jocelyne Lalonde, Isabelle Michel
3. Balancing Universal and Focused Public Health Interventions: Opportunities and Challenges
Presented by: Daniela Seskar-Hencic, Andrew Pinto, Julie Stratton
4. HaltonParents: Parenting Support Using Social Media
Presented by: Andrea Montgomery, Lynne Hanna
5. Healthy Canada by Design: Evidence-Based Tools to Create Healthier Built Environments, Ready for Action!
Presented by: Gayle Bursey, Bhavna, Sivanand, Alice Miro, David McKeown, Linda Piazza, John Wall
6. Performance Management Framework for Public Health: Implementing Accountability Agreement Indicators
Presented by: Michele Weidinger, Laura Belfie
7. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Influenza Vaccination Rates: Community-Based Programming to Close the Gap
Presented by: Judyth Gulden, Fayola Creft
8. Public Health Policy Change: Evidence, Experts, Rhetoric and Reality
Presented by: Robert Schwartz, Marc Mitchell, Sireesha Bobilli, Michael Beeler, Alex Price
9. Should We Stay or Should We Go? - Long-Term Care Homes and Nursing Homes Developing Plans for Sheltering-In-Place or Evacuation
Presented by: Judyth Gulden, Richard Bochenek
10. Understanding and Applying Burden-of-Disease Methods in Ontario Public Health Planning
Presented by: Ruth Sanderson, Jeff Kwong, Doug Manuel, Juergen Rehm, Heather Mnason, Natasha Crowcroft, Paul Kurdyak, Shelley Deeks, John Cariney, Michael Campitelli, Kwame McKenzie, Laura Rosella
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
1. Public Perceptions of Determinants of Health
Presented by: Kelly Anthony, Danielle Kofler
2. Exchanging Ideas to Improve the Practice of Delivering French-Language Public Health Services
Presented by: Hélène Roussel, Stéphanie Tomicic, Lou Anne Hirons, Erik Labrosse
3. One Health/EcoHealth
Presented by: Karen Morrison, Dean Middleton, Zee Leung
4. PHAC/CIHR Influenza Research Network (PCIRN) Vaccine Coverage Theme Workshop: Optimizing the Collection of Influenza Immunization Data
Presented by: Jeff Kwong, Jennifer Pereira, Christine Heidebrecht, Susan Quach, Sherman Quan
5. Putting Results in the Hands of Stakeholders: A New Health Informatics Portal
Presented by: Shawn O'Connor, Robert Schwartz
6. Built Environment
Moderated by: Howard Shapiro
6.a) Growing Food in the City: Development of an Evidence-Informed Decision-Support Tool to Streamline Soil Assessment and Management
Presented by: Josephine Archbold, Suzanne Goldacker, Ronald Macfarlane, Loren Vanderlinden, Monica Campbell, Solomon Boye, Peter Dorfman
6.b) How 10 PHUs are Working to Influence the Land-Use Planning Processes
Presented by: Kim Perrotta
6.c) Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Development of Community Pictures
Presented by: Sari Liem, Kim Bergeron
6.d) Partnerships, Policies, Prototypes: How Peel Public Health is Forging Ahead to Build Health-Promoting Built Environments Throughout the Region
Presented by: Bhavna Sivanand, David Mowat, Gayle Bursey
6.e) What is the Potential Impact of the Discontinuation of Community Water Fluoridation: A Review of Past Studies
Presented by: Phat Ha, Heather Manson
7. Child Health
Moderated by: Lorraine Telford
7.a) Assessment of Factors Associated with School Compliance to Ministry of Health pH1N1 Guidelines During Wave Two of Ontario's Influenza Pandemic
Presented by: Doug Sider, Anusha Sundaram, Jenny Christian
7.b) Barriers to Receiving and Reporting Childhood Immunizations: Parents' Perspectives
Presented by: Regina Elliott, Michelle Ho, Zahra Abdulhussein
7.c) Enhancing Community - Early Years Partnerships
Presented by: Joanne Simpson
7.d) Menobimahdizwin: Living the Good Life
Presented by: Lynda Fraser
7.e) Results of a Formative Evaluation of Youth Engagement for Healthy Choices
Presented by: Maritt Kirst, Tracey Borland, Robert Schwartz
7.f) Tobacco Control: Contraband Cigarettes and Youth Access
Presented by: Jim Chan
8. Management
Moderated by: Karen Jenkins
8.a) Adopting a Health and Safety Management System in Public Health: A New Leadership Imperative to Establish a Culture of Saftey for Clients, Employees and the Public
Presented by: Patricia Boucher, Kathryn Nichol
8.b) Advancing Public Health by Increasing Leadership Knowledge and Skills
Presented by: Katie Dilworth, Maureen Cava
8.c) Innovation in Public Health Clinical Nursing Services: The Role of the Intake Nurse
Presented by: Ethylene Villareal, Barbara May Hutchison, Mike Delorme
8.d) Developing "Champions" to Foster Staff Training on the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
Presented by: Marty Mako, Kim Oullette
8.e) Priority-Setting and Resource Allocation in a Small, Rural Public Health Unit
Presented by: Shani Gates, Katie Jackson
9. Planning
Moderated by: Nandini Saxena
9.a) Advancing Public Health by Increasing Knowledge and Skills in Evidence-Informed Practice
Presented by: May Tao, Katie Dilworth, Carol Timmings
9.b) An Examination of LEARN Communities of Practice: Developing Social Capital for Purposes of Knowledge Exchange and Use
Presented by: Irene Lambraki, Agnes Nowaczek, Steve Manske, Erika Steibelt, Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh
9.c) Involving Multiple Perspectives: Tips to Strengthen Public Health Evidence-Based Practice
Presented by: Emily Zbieranowski
9.d) Learning Through Evidence, Action, and Reflection Networks (LEARN): Bridging the Gap Between Evidence and Practice
Presented by: Erika Steibelt, Christine Stich, Melody Roberts, Irene Lambraki, John Garcia
9.e) Turning Client-Centred Care Principles into Practice... We Asked Clients
Presented by: Sharon Vanderburg, Susan Boston
10. Hot TOPHC: Fluoridation of Public Water Systems
Lead authors: Heather Manson, Dick Ito
