Title: A Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health
1A 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
2A quick orientation?
EcoHealth? (ecosystem approaches to health)
determinants of health?
Community of Practice?
reducing health inequalities/inequities?
Collaborative learning?
3Learning 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.
4www.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)
5Ecosystem Approaches to Health?
health and wellbeing are embedded within
ecosystems
Cynthia Haq MD, Dept Family Practice, University
of Wisconsin
6Ecosystems-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
7Ecosystem 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
8What 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.
9CoPEH-Canada Objectives
- to jointly plan and deliver a ecohealth short
course for students and professionals - 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 - to conduct an integrated program of participatory
research and evaluation to examine the
networking, educational and capacity building
outcomes of the community of practice - to identify and develop strategies for long-term
regional and institutional capacity to support
ecosystem approaches to human health.
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11policy
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
12Community 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)
13At the beginning of the COPEH-TLAC
J. Saint-Charles, UAQM
14Two Years Later
A Web of relationships Touch one strand and it
affects them all (Greenwod)
J. Saint-Charles, UAQM
J. Saint-Charles, UAQM
15policy
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
161st 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
17policy
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
18A quick orientation(!)
EcoHealth? (ecosystem approaches to health)
determinants of health?
Community of Practice?
reducing health inequalities/inequities?
Collaborative learning?
19www.idrc.ca/ecohealth
www.copeh-canada.org
www.ECOHEALTH.net