Exhibitor information for CAPHD 2016 Annual Conference

The Canadian Association of Public Health Dentistry (CAPHD) Annual Conference is giving the opportunity for exhibitors to showcase dental public health initiatives and programs. The conference will be held in Alberta from September 30th -October 1st 2016!

Deadline to apply: August 1st, 2016!

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Funding opportunity

The Health Center Program provides grants to health centers that offer comprehensive primary healthcare services to an underserved area or population. This program targets the nation’s neediest populations and geographic regions. Areas with a January 1, 2017 project period start date are eligible to apply.

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Avant les rues

Avant les rues (Before the streets) is a moving film directed in native language on a Québec reservation and filmed in Manawan, Québec. It reveals the social and health challenges but also the meaning behind many traditional practices (including land-based healing approaches). The story features all non-professional actors acting tough realities affecting their friends and families.

For more information about this film click here.

RSBO funding opportunity

MAJOR STRUCTURING PROJECT – THEME 5

Extended Deadline from: August 31st to Friday, September 25, 2015

Results to be announced in November

The aim of this program is to enable researchers from different sites and sectors, to unite their expertise around specific research themes that could have a significant clinical or applied impact.
Applications should focus on the following theme:

Accessibility to oral health care for vulnerable clienteles: feasibility, effectiveness and efficiency of different models of organization of care in the Quebec context
http://www.rsbo.ca/chercheur-23-en.html

National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)

The National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH) is a national Aboriginal organization established in 2005 by the Government of Canada and funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada to support First Nations, Inuit, and Métis public health renewal and health equity through knowledge translation and exchange.  Continue reading

C’est malade

This blog, which is aimed at young professionals, is the product of a collaboration between ComSanté, Centre for Research on communication and health (which succeeds the Research Group Media and Health) from the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM ) and the Youth media Alliance (WAN) Continue reading

Northern Health, the northern way of caring

Northern Health is committed to partnering with Aboriginal peoples and to building a health system  that honours diversity and provides services in a culturally relevant manner. Aboriginal Health supports the integration of Aboriginal perspectives into all aspects of the organization.

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