The program was developed by the U. S. Department of Defense and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to improve institutional collaboration and communication relating to patient safety. Click here to register for the event & check out our Events Calendar for more options.

Call for applicants: Apply to be a health equity practice site

The Faculty of Health Sciences has an opening for one full-time 12-month term position as Instructor in our undergraduate public health program. Click here for the full details. Electronic applications are welcomed at dean.hlsc@uleth.ca. Please submit an application by April 13, 2018. 

Canada’s Food Guide Consultation – Phase 2

In the summer of 2017, over 6700 stakeholders and Canadians provided input to the second consultation for the revision of Canada’s Food Guide. Click here to see the results from the consultation.

Health Canada's Front-of-Package Regulatory Consultations (Feb 10, 2018)

There is a proposal underway requiring FRONT-of-Package Nutritional Symbol for foods at or within the 15% Daily Value for sodium, saturated fats & sugar intake. Read the full report here.

Help the Department of Health choose a Food label to promote healthier shopping choices. Click to do their 5-min survey.

Heart and Stroke continues to work with tobacco control partners to advocate for plain and standardized packaging of tobacco at the federal level. 

Basic income guarantee for household food insecurity: click here to read a report on the concept.

Patient Concerns/Complaints Resolution Provincial Framework: click here to read the this framework by the Health Quality Network of Alberta (HQNA).

Informed Decision-Making for Labour and Birth: click here to read a position paper prepared by members of the Reproductive Health Workgroup of the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA).

The Alberta Public Health Association is celebrating its 75^th anniversary in 2018. In recognition of APHA’s important history, we are pleased to present some materials from a research project titled “Public Health Advocacy: Lessons from the History of the Alberta public Health Association, funded by a grant from the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation’s Heritage Preservation Partnership Program awarded to Lindsay McLaren, Kelsey Lucyk, and Frank Stahnisch. 

This larger project started in 2015 and aimed to examine the history of APHA from its 1943 foundation to the present day. We invite you to review our Narrative History, scroll through the List of Past Presidents, and consider the impressive breadth of Historical APHA Resolutions. 

We welcome feedback (including corrections) on these materials. Please send comments to apha.comm@gmail.com.

Best Regards,

Dr. Lindsay McLaren

Want to become a member? APHA has a voluntary membership representing a variety of disciplines including practitioners, students, representatives of government departments and non-government organizations, and community members.

APHA Membership Benefits:

In addition to supporting Public Health advocacy in Alberta, you will have access to our quarterly newsletters, as well as:

• Costco Membership Offer
  

APHA members who become new Costco members can receive a $10 Costco Cash card.

• Broadway Across Canada Ticket Discounts
  

Become an APHA member and get up to 20% discount on performance tickets to shows happening in Alberta! Currently showing in Calgary & Edmonton: Les Miserables & The Book of Mormon.