CIPHI Ontario

📣 Upcoming CIPHI National Virtual Education Session: Register Now! 📣 UNSTUCK: Working with Intractable Problems Presented by TEND Academy 📅 December 18th, 2024 ⏰ 12:00 PM EST 💻 Registration: https://lnkd.in/ewHs6hF9 Speakers: ✨ Françoise Mathieu, MEd, RP ✨ Marlene O’Neill Laberge, MSW Working as a Public Health Inspector is uniquely challenging. Intractable problems” refer to situations that are extremely challenging, feel impossible to resolve, or not easily remedied. Large scale system changes and uncertainty can add an additional level of pressure and internal conflict for Public Health Inspectors. In this session we will discuss: ✔️ How our mindset and perspective are relevant when working with intractable problems. ✔️ Tools and strategies that can enhance a sense of control and agency when faced with intractable problems. ✔️ How to empower supervisors and managers to effectively support their teams to stay well when working within these chronically challenging conditions. 👉 Register now to reserve your spot!

Recap of the 2024 CIPHI Ontario Annual Education Conference. A jam packed conference and these are only some highlights. Hope that everyone had a great time. See you at the next one! #publichealth #ciphi2024 #ciphionaec2024 #professionaldevelopment #healthinspectors #environmentalhealth

Today is #OneHealthDay, which recognizes the need for a One Health approach to address a wide range of public health concerns like foodborne illnesses, antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic diseases, vector-borne diseases and much more. Canada’s climate is changing. By working together, we can improve health for people, animals, plants and our shared environment. Subscribe to our Zoonoses Bulletin to keep informed: https://ow.ly/bMbr50TmTJ2

#AdvocacyinAction: 📢 This week, we were at the Canadian Institute for Public Health Inspectors' CIPHI Ontario conference to build awareness about the critical importance of food allergen management in the #foodservice industry. We engaged with #PublicHealth inspectors on how they can utilize our new #ThinkFoodAllergy tools and resources to spread knowledge within their networks. Together, we can create safer dining experiences for everyone! Let’s keep the conversation going and work towards a future where food allergy is managed with care and expertise. Thank you to everyone who came by our booth and participated in our session! 🙌✨ #FoodAllergyAwareness #Collaboration #CIPHI2024

Sharing highlights from this week's CIPHI Ontario 2024 Conference at Conestoga College, Innovations in Environmental Public Health: Harnessing Technology for a Resilient Future; a great event focused on how technology can drive progress in public health and resilience. I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on our research on leveraging zero-effort technology to quantify sleep quality metrics. I also shared insights, with Thokozani Hanjahanja-Phiri, PhD, on how this technology can drive equitable health outcomes by analyzing climate impacts across North America. Thanks to Plinio Morita, PhD MSc PEng and co-authors, Arlene Oetomo and Vivek Chauhan, for their invaluable contributions. UbiLab - University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Faculty of Health School of Public Health Sciences

Thank you to the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors for inviting me to speak at their 2024 CIPHI Ontario Conference at Conestoga College. I shared my lived experience and patient perspective as a transplant recipient plus the systemic barriers in the health care system to access prophylactic treatments for immunocompromised (IC) populations. Real-world evidence on the clinical and economic burden of COVID-19 demonstrated that IC individuals have suffered a disproportionate burden compared to non-IC populations. I also spoke on behalf of the Canadian Immunocompromised Advocacy Network (CIAN) to outline our mission, vision and advocacy efforts to protect immunocompromised populations through targeted infection control measures and easier and more equitable access to therapeutic options, like passive immunizing agents and protein-based vaccines, for COVID-19 and other communicable diseases. Public health guidelines also need to take into consideration a broader definition of being IC as 14% of the Canadian population now has an auto-immune disorder rather than the historical definition that only 1% of the population are severely IC. The bottom line is that more needs to be done to protect IC and to allow this population to live and thrive in a more safer and inclusive environment.

Can AI be a helpful and reliable tool for the future of Environmental Public Health research? Madison McConnell and I dug deeper to find out, and we presented our findings at the CIPHI Ontario 2024 conference! Enhancing Environmental Public Health Research: A Comparative Study of Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Reviewers Thankful for the opportunity to share our findings and for the learning experience this conference offered. See you next year!

Special Thanks to our hosts for this year’s conference. They’ll also be having a booth in the exhibitor hall. --- Conestoga - Jeff works in the Co-operative Education Dept. at Conestoga College as an Employer Relations Consultant.  The Bachelor of Environmental Public Health co-op program falls under his program portfolio. Jeff works with employers to assist them navigate the co-op recruitment process and hire Conestoga’s co-op students.  Stop by the Conestoga booth to say hi to Jeff and learn about co-op at Conestoga. --- CIPHI Ontario, one of eight branches under the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors, has the largest membership with 550 of the 1,200 national members. The Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors protects Canadians’ health, represents Environmental Public Health Professionals (Public Health Inspectors) across Canada, and advances the field through certification, advocacy, education, and standards setting. It is the only national professional association for Environmental Public Health Professionals, covering areas like food protection, drinking-water quality, wastewater disposal, indoor air quality, epidemiology, tobacco reduction, and communicable diseases --- #CIPHIONAEC2024 #CIPHI2024 #Exhibitor #PublicHealth #CIPHIOntario #Conestoga