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Learning objectives:

  • Discover lessons learned from the implementation of an internationally validated tool to monitor child development in Scotland

  • Learn about working towards health equity in the Scottish policy domain

When: Friday, January 29, 2016 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Moderated By: Lee Fairclough, VP, Quality Improvement, Health Quality Ontario

Speaker: Professor John W. Frank, MD, CCFP, MSc, FRCPC, FCAHS, FFPH, FRSE
Professor Frank trained in Medicine and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, in Family Medicine at McMaster University, and in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been Professor (now Emeritus) at the University of Toronto, at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (since 1983); founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto (1991 to 1997); and inaugural Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Population and Public Health (2000-2008). In July 2008, he became Director of a new Edinburgh-based Unit, funded by the Medical Research Council and the Scottish Chief Scientist Office: the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy. The Collaboration seeks to develop and robustly test novel public health policies and programs to equitably improve health status in Scotland, through the convening and ongoing support of researcher/research-user consortia. He holds a Chair in Public Health Research and Policy at the University of Edinburgh. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in recognition of his scholarly contributions.

Cannot join via OTN? View the webinar

Questions: KTE@hqontario.ca

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