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8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Webinar ID: 881 8879 0244
Passcode: 089425
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This plenary session brings together leading voices in Canada’s AI and health innovation landscape to explore the transformative role of AI in shaping the future of public health and beyond. This session will offer a forward looking conversation leveraging the panelists’ experiences in AI deployment in complex health environments, advancing predictive analytics and AI enabled public health tools. The discussion will also explore the intersection of clinical AI, health equity, and the ethical implications of AI systems.
Break: 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Webinar ID: 881 8879 0244
Passcode: 089425
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
This featured panel moves beyond definitions to explore practical, real-world strategies for responding to false and misleading information, understanding its impacts on communities, and strengthening public trust. This session offers actionable insights that can be applied across practice, policy work, and community engagement efforts.
Panel Discussion 1
Truth in a turbulent world: Public health strategies to cut through the mis- and disinformation noise
Break: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Webinar ID: 881 8879 0244
Passcode: 089425
Telephone: Click here to connect by phone
Webinar ID: 881 8879 0244
Passcode: 089425
Telephone: Click here to connect by phone
This panel provides a focused look at how quality improvement is accelerating across Ontario’s public health landscape. The session will introduce and define key QI concepts, outline Public Health Ontario’s framework and roadmap for ongoing QI work with Public Health Units (PHUs) and highlight current work underway to support all PHUs in building QI capacity and consistency. This will include sharing results from the Fall 2025 QI maturity survey, highlighting system-level insights and opportunities for collective growth.
Break: 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Webinar ID: 881 8879 0244
Passcode: 089425
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Panel Discussion 2
Quality Improvement in Action: Building Capacity, Consistency, and System-Level Insight
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
After large-scale emergencies with significant population health impacts such as the COVID-19 pandemic, we are challenged to reflect on how prepared our public health system is for the next emergency. Our Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded team has led research to address two key questions: Are we prepared? and How do we measure preparedness?. This session will present recently completed research and describe how an evidence-based framework and indicators for public health emergency preparedness has been used to inform preparedness measurement, action and quality improvement in public health agencies across Canada.
TOPHC 2026 Virtual Convention Concludes
We are pleased to share TOPHC’s 2026 Virtual Convention Student Networking Link.
Please click on the Zoom link and connect with us at the scheduled time.
Public Health Presentation & Closing Ceremonies
Are We Prepared? Implementing a Public Health Emergency Preparedness Framework and Indicators with a Quality Improvement Lens
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Students will have the opportunity to connect with public health professionals in an engaging networking environment. This session will help students explore career pathways, gain insights, and ask questions about working in public health that can inform and inspire their next steps.
Please note: Limited space is available and on a first-come-first-serve basis
Opening Remarks & Plenary Session
Modern Tools, Healthier Communities: AI Insights Shaping Public Health Transformation
Student Networking Event