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Title: A Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health


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A Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem
Approaches to Health
Building capacity to address the determinants of
health and sustainability
  • Margot Parkes,
  • UBC College of Health Disciplines, Dept. Family
    Practice
  • on behalf of
  • COPEH-Canada

2
A quick orientation?
EcoHealth? (ecosystem approaches to health)
determinants of health?
Community of Practice?
reducing health inequalities/inequities?
Collaborative learning?
3
Learning Outcomes (our hopes)
  • At the end of this session you will be
  • curious about how a community of practice in
    Ecohealth can build capacity to address the
    determinants of health and sustainability
  • able to identify common ground between ecohealth
    approaches strategies to reduce health
    inequities
  • aware of participatory, collaborative research
    strategies to enhance networking, relationships
    and capacity building
  • e.g EcoHealth Training Awards Scheme.

4
www.copeh-canada.org
  • A Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem
    Approaches to Health (COPEH-Can)
  • with an EcoHealth Training and Awards Program
  • funded by the International Development Research
    Centre, Canada (IDRC)

5
Ecosystem Approaches to Health?
health and wellbeing are embedded within
ecosystems
Cynthia Haq MD, Dept Family Practice, University
of Wisconsin
6
Ecosystems-Health-Social Equity
  • New generation settings for equitable health
    sustainability
  • watersheds
  • landuse food security
  • Indigenous perspectives
  • rural/urban planning

DRIVING FORCES (governance, development power)
?different views on health and sustainability
ECO- SYSTEMS
SOCIAL SYSTEMS
HEALTH
Parkes, Panelli Weinstein, EHP, 2003
7
Ecosystem Approaches to Health
  • International Development Research Center (Cole,
    2006)
  • Approaches and three Pillars
  • Transdisciplinarity
  • Participation
  • Equity (social and gender)
  • e.g. "EcoSalud in Ecuador farming communities,
    researchers, health practitioners local
    politicians
  • --gt integrated pest management, better recognize
    and treat poisonings and improve
    pesticide-related policies.
  • Building international capacity through
    Communities of Practice
  • Latin America, Middle East, Africa. Canada

8
What is a Community of Practice?
  • Communities of practice are groups of people who
    have a common interest and are engaged in a
    shared enterprise, through which they both have,
    and further develop, a repertoire of knowledge,
    skills and practices
  • (Wenger, 1998).
  • CoPs respond to professional demand and are
    results oriented. They can serve to develop and
    evolve knowledge, as well as develop innovative
    ideas.

9
CoPEH-Canada Objectives
  1. to jointly plan and deliver a ecohealth short
    course for students and professionals
  2. to provide a forum for Canadians to consolidate
    and extend the ecohealth approach through
    collaboration, exchange, and scholarly attention
    to methodology, pedagogy and knowledge
    translation
  3. to conduct an integrated program of participatory
    research and evaluation to examine the
    networking, educational and capacity building
    outcomes of the community of practice
  4. to identify and develop strategies for long-term
    regional and institutional capacity to support
    ecosystem approaches to human health.

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policy
NGOs/NFPs Organisations beyond govt/education
sectors
researchers
Framework for research
Establishment of Community of Practice in
Ecosystem Approaches to Health
  • aka
  • action research
  • sharing learning
  • what works? what doesnt? how to do better?
  • equipping a new generation of professsionals

Collaborative Relationships (between researchers,
policy, NGOs etc)
Capacity Building (e.g.
Training Awards Program )
Capacity, values processes for
collaborative Ecohealth research, education,
practice
12
Community of Practice in EcoHealth research on
Toxics in Latin America the Caribbean
Analysis of social networks collaborative
relationships for sharing and learning (J.
Saint-Charles UQAM)
13
At the beginning of the COPEH-TLAC
J. Saint-Charles, UAQM
14
Two Years Later
A Web of relationships Touch one strand and it
affects them all (Greenwod)
J. Saint-Charles, UAQM
J. Saint-Charles, UAQM
15
policy
NGOs/NFPs Organisations beyond govt/education
sectors
researchers
Establishment of Community of Practice in
Ecosystem Approaches to Health
Collaborative Relationships (between researchers,
policy, NGOs etc)
Capacity Building (e.g.
Training Awards Program )
Capacity, values processes for
collaborative Ecohealth research, education,
practice
16
1st short course UBC August 5-15 2008
Ontario (3) Environment (2) Human Health (1)
Vet/Pop Health (1) Indigenous/Canadian Studies
  • collaborative approaches to complex health/
    environment issues
  • Community-oriented, case-based learning inside
    and outside of the classroom,
  • cultivating knowledge, attitudes skills for
    real world scenarios cases
  • Research focused on
  • collaborative curriculum design
  • collaborative learning
  • before, during, after course
  • medium term (lt1 yr)
  • Longer term (gt1 yr)
  • collaborative relationships
  • Social networking

Quebec/PEI (5) Human health (1) Environment (1)
Vet/Pop Health (1) Island studies
BC, SK, MB (6) Human Health (1) Env/Geography (1)
Interdisciplinary Studies (1) Vet/Pop
Health (1)Resource Management and Environmental
Studies (1) Sociology
17
policy
NGOs/NFPs Organisations beyond govt/education
sectors
researchers
Establishment of Community of Practice in
Ecosystem Approaches to Health
Collaborative Relationships (between researchers,
policy, NGOs etc)
Capacity Building (e.g.
Training Awards Program )
Capacity, values processes for
collaborative Ecohealth research, education,
practice
18
A quick orientation(!)
EcoHealth? (ecosystem approaches to health)
determinants of health?
Community of Practice?
reducing health inequalities/inequities?
Collaborative learning?
19
www.idrc.ca/ecohealth
www.copeh-canada.org
www.ECOHEALTH.net
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