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A Collaborative Approach to Workforce
Development

• Kim Barro
• Hosted by the
• Pan Canadian Task Force on Public Health
  Nutrition Practice
• CPHA Conference
• June 4, 2008

Funding for this project was provided by the
Public Health Agency of Canada
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Introductions

• Pan-Canadian Task Force on Public Health
  Nutrition Practice
• Established in early 2006
• Provides strategic guidance, expert advice and
  leadership to enhance public health nutrition
  practice in Canada.
• Leaders from public health nutrition from across
  Canada
• Organization liaisons from CPHA, PHRED,
  Regulatory Body, DC
• Funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada
  to Dietitians of Canada to support their work

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Task Force Members

• Kim Barro
• Sheryl Bates Dancho
• Jane Bellman
• Tara Brown
• Elsie De Roose
• Erica Di Ruggiero
• Ann Fox
• Mary Lou Gignac
• Rhonda Karas Chartrand 

• Pam Kheong
• Cindy Scythes
• Joan Silzer
• Marie Traynor
• Lysanne Trudeau
• Marlene Wyatt
• Janice Macdonald
• Karen MacDougall
• Sonya Kupka

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Outline

• Welcome
• Strengthening Public Health Nutrition Practice in
  Canada
• Context and Background
• Overview of Work to Date
• Next Steps

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Context

• Recent public health events issues
• SARS
• Walkerton
• Pandemic Flu
• Obesity
• Chronic, preventable, nutrition related diseases
  (heart disease, diabetes)

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National Response

• Ministers of Health, June 2004
• Agreed to a 10-year action plan to strengthen
  public health
• Public Health Human Resource Task Group
• Developed a pan-Canadian framework to strengthen
  public health capacity ensure a competent
  workforce

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Discipline Specific Groups

• Dietitians (public health nutritionist, public
  health dietitians, community nutritionists)
• Nurses
• Environmental Public Health Professionals
• Epidemiologists
• Physicians
• Health Promoters
• Dentists, Dental Hygienists, Dental Technicians,
  Dental Assistants

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Overview on what we have done

• Developed an action plan and secured funding from
  PHAC to implement this plan
• Situational Assessment journal publication
  pending
• A Systematic Review of Literature on competencies
  for PHN practice
• Key Informant Interviews
• PEEST Factor Analysis
• Pulling it Together - The Consensus Meeting
• Presentations at CPHA and DC in 2007 and 2008
• Email and newsletter updates
• Collaboration with other public health
  professions

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Public Health Nutrition Building on whats
already out there

• The Core Competencies for Public Health in
  Canada Release 1.0 (2007)
• The Essential Competencies for Dietetic Practice
  (2006) developed by provincial dietetics
  regulatory bodies
• The Competencies for the Entry-Level Dietitian
  (1996) and knowledge statements (1997) from
  Dietitians of Canada and
• Provincial and International Public Health
  Nutrition Competencies (Toronto, NS, US, UK,
  Australia)

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Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada

• Essential, knowledge, skills attitudes
  necessary for the broad practice of public health
• Transcend boundaries of specific disciplines
  program
• Basic building blocks for public health practice
  use of an overall public health approach
• Baseline requirements to fulfill public health
  system core functions
• Launched at Canadian Public Health Association
  Conference, September 2007

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Mapping of Existing Competencies

• Categories of core competencies for public health
  (Release 1.0)
• Public health sciences
• Assessment and analysis
• Policy program planning implementation and
  evaluation
• Partnerships, collaboration and advocacy
• Diversity and inclusiveness
• Communication
• Leadership

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From Research to Action

• Discussion document Strengthening Public Health
  Nutrition Practice in Canada
• Proposed definition of practice
• Identification of public health nutrition
  competencies
• Suggestions for organizational supports

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Next Steps

1. Present to dietetic educators and host a workshop
   at the Dietitians of Canada Conference next week.
2. Review and integrate feedback into a discussion
   Paper by the fall
3. Consult with stakeholders through workshops and
   individual interviews
4. Conduct an electronic stakeholder poll and/or
   survey to validate findings from consultation.
5. Disseminate final recommendations by June 2009

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Thank You!

• Questions?
• Contact
• publichealthnutrition_at_telus.net