Registry of Lobbyists
Version 5 of 5 (2006-08-31 to 2007-04-13) was submitted prior to the Lobbying Act coming into force on July 2, 2008. Due to different information requirements at that time, the registration is presented in the following format.
| Organization: |
Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
400-1565 Carling Avenue Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1 Canada |
| Telephone number: | 613-725-3769 Ext.: 127 |
| Fax number: | 613-725-9826 |
| Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration: | ELINOR E WILSON, Associate CEO |
| Description of the organization's activities: | The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is a national not-for-profit association incorporated in 1912. CPHA is composed of health professionals from over 25 health disciplines and is active in conducting and supporting health and social programs both nationally and internationally. CPHA stresses its partnership role by working with federal and provincial government departments and international agencies, non-governmental organizations and the private sector in conducting research and health services programs.Mission StatementThe Canadian Public Health Association is a national, independent, not-for-profit, voluntary association representing public health in Canada with links to the international public health community. CPHA's members believe in universal and equitable access to the basic conditions which are necessary to achieve health for all Canadians.CPHA's mission is to constitute a special national resource in Canada that advocates for the improvement and maintenance of personal and community health according to the public health principles of disease prevention, health promotion and protection and healthy public policy. |
| Organization's membership or classes of membership: | There are 5 categories of membership:activecorporatehonoraryretiredstudent |
| Was the organization funded in whole or in part by any domestic or foreign government institution in the last completed financial year? | No |
| Name: | James Chauvin |
| Position title: | Director, Global Health Programs |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Ian Culbert |
| Position title: | Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Clearinghouse |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Sylvia Fanjoy |
| Position title: | Director, National Programs |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Janet MacLachlan |
| Position title: | Associate CEO |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Name: | Elinor Wilson |
| Position title: | CEO |
| Public offices held: | No |
| Federal departments or organizations which have been or will be communicated with during the course of the undertaking: | Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Canadian Heritage (PCH), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Environment Canada, Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office (FEARO), Finance Canada (FIN), Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC), Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission (HMIRC), Health Canada (HC), Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), Industry Canada, Justice Canada (JC), Members of the House of Commons, Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Works and Government Services Canada, Revenue Canada (RC), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Solicitor General Canada (SGC), Statistics Canada (StatCan), Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS) | ||||||
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Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:
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Informal communications, Meetings, Presentations, Telephone calls, Written communications, whether in hard copy or electronic format | ||||||
| Subject Matter: Areas of Concern: | Aboriginal Affairs, Chronic & Communicable Disease, Consumer Issues, Education, Employment and Training, Environment, Health, Healthy Public Policy, Infrastructure, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement, Labour, Prevention of Disease, Public Health Capacity, Science and Technology, Taxation and Finance, Transportation | ||||||
| Subject Matter: Retrospective: | Editorials in the Canadian Journal of Public Health address national and international health and social issues, while conferences provide a forum for both members and the public to debate major health topics. Through representation on external committees and task forces, the Association's views are presented and contribute to the decision-making process relevant to public health issues.Another of the Association's major activities is representation through advocating and by presentations to Parliamentary Committees. To keep the membership informed of CPHA's activities in the area of advocacy brief reports are included from time to time in issues of the CPHA Health Digest and the website. CPHA continues to advocate for increased funding to repair the fractured infrastructure of public health in Canada. CPHA advocated for increased funding in capacity for emergency preparedness in light of the emerging communicable diseases such as SARS and West Nile Virus. CPHA continued its advocacy through letters to the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health prior to their joint conference in September of 2004 and through other correspondence to governments. In particular, CPHA advocated that public health investments should be devoted to a national public health strategy, the improvement of our public health infrastructure and a national public health human resources strategy. Through these investments an umbrella will be provided under which common risk factors and health determinants can be integrated.In a presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance (Oct 2005), CPHA outlined a series of budget recommendations aimed at supporting and improving the system to ensure that public health is recognized as the national priority it must be. CPHA also recommended the federal government increase its core funding for public health, including the establishment and ongoing operation of the PHAC, public health partnerships and the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases. | ||||||
| Subject Matter: Prospective: | Impact of Low literacy on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control CPHA is conducting an in-depth literature review and key informant interviews to better understand the impact of low health literacy on chronic disease prevention and control, the barriers to access, diagnosis and treatment, and best practices and techniques.Public Health Practice as it Relates to Chronic Disease CPHA is now finalizing this one year contract in which it will undertake a comprehensive environmental scan, needs assessment and gap analysis in order to monitor public health practices (current activities, resource allocation and capacity at local, provincial, national and international levels and existing structures, activities, capacity for information exchange), and make recommendations for the implementation of the Integrated Strategy on Healthy Living and Chronic Disease and on the interface between public health and primary care. Informing a Systematic Review of Public Health Practice and Community Programs with Regards to Healthy Living and Chronic Diseases CPHA is developing a framework to guide the first phase of sampling the environment of practice based on a series of key informant interviews.Cannabis-Impaired Driving: A Public Awareness Campaign The focus of this public awareness campaign was a website with downloadable materials, a poster of pot-smoking pilots with the caption If it doesn't make sense here, why does it make sense when you drive?, and a media blitz. The success of the campaign surpassed all expectations. The Globe and Mail gave the campaign half page coverage and information about the campaign was carried in newspapers across the country as well as on CBC National TV news, and various radio shows. About 90,000 posters were distributed to high schools, driving schools, libraries, police, unions, and so on. The campaign was the topic of marijuana on-line forums. The campaign is being taken to the Eastern Arctic in partnership with the National Aboriginal Health Organization. The focus will be on cannabis use and off-road driving. The website is being translated into a third language: Inuktitut.Smoking Cessation Resources for Women at Risk This revised resource was successfully pilot tested in the fall in a group setting and is currently being tested by four health professionals in one-on-one settings. This resource will be launched at our May conference and available in both hard copy and on-line downloadable formats.Strengthening of Public Health Associations (2001-2006)- Flagship initiative: Strengthening of Public Health Associations (SOPHA) Program. Launched in 1985, this program has contributed to the establishment and organizational capacity of public health associations in over 28 countries around the world. Includes Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe through other CIDA funding mechanisms.Reinforcing National Immunization Systems - Global- Canada's International Immunization Initiative - Phase 2 (2003 - 2008) continues to provide technical assistance to World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UNICEF to improve access to and vaccination coverage of basic vaccine-preventable diseases; increase the capacities of health-care related staff in disease surveillance, data management, epidemiology, laboratory diagnostics and technologies, vaccine and injection safety, adverse events reporting, communication and social mobilization. - To date the project has mobilized and supported over 40 technical missions to countries such as Guinea, Pakistan, Haiti, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Mali, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Chad, Botswana, Laos, El Salvador, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Yemen and Cuba. | ||||||
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