Final Program - Canadian Public Health Association

12:30 – 14:00 Hall D (Pedway Level)
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Annual General Meeting
CPHA’s Annual General Meeting is open to all delegates at the conference; however only CPHA members may vote. Prior
to the start of the session, members are asked to check in at the AGM desk to obtain their voting cards. CPHA members
whose membership has lapsed but who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and be eligible to vote may
renew their membership just before the AGM. Anyone wishing to take out a new CPHA membership can do so by
June 11, 2012 at the registration desk. A bag lunch will be available.
12:30 – 14:00 Lobby (Assembly Level)
NETWORKING LUNCH WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTERS
We’ve heard you loud and clear! You want more time to network with colleagues from across the
country. Every day of our conference, CPHA has set aside specific time over the lunch period
for you to network with colleagues, visit the trade show and tour the poster presentations.
To give you sustenance, CPHA is pleased to announce that it has negotiated with the
Shaw Conference Centre special prices for your lunch. Grab a salad, sandwich and
a cookie for only $5! Special kiosks will be set up outside the Exhibit Hall and café-style tables
and chairs will be available. No need to search for somewhere to eat... just pull up a chair and enjoy
an affordable, nutritious lunch!
$5
Lunch!
14:30 – 16:00 Salon 12 (Meeting Level)
PLANNED SESSION – CPHA
Ecosystem and Human Health: From CPHA’s 1992 Report to Rio+20 and Beyond
Ultimately, human health depends entirely on the health of the ecosystems of which we are a part, since we (and all other
species) depend upon the ecosystem goods and services they provide. Yet ecosystem and thus human health are
threatened by the unprecedented scale, scope and rapidity of the impact of human activities in areas such as climate and
atmospheric change, pollution and ecotoxicity, resource depletion, and the loss of habitat, species and biodiversity. As
humankind’s ecological footprint grows, ecosystem health declines, especially in the tropical ecozones. This decline has
become perhaps the greatest threat to human health in the 21 st century.
Twenty years ago, CPHA recognized the links between human and ecosystem health in a policy paper, but much has
happened since then, both in terms of global ecological change itself and in our understanding of those changes and
their implications for population health. As a result, the CPHA paper will now be updated, and this session and the related
planned session (see page 26) are the starting point for this process.
This session will explore the links between human and ecosystem health; the implications of current trends in ecosystem
health, as highlighted at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, which takes place just one week after the
CPHA conference; the actions needed at all levels, from local to global, to address these challenges; and the role that
public health professionals can and must play to improve ecosystem and thus human health.
Learning Objectives:
* Increase understanding of the links between human and ecosystem health and the implications of current trends in
ecosystem health;
* Identify actions needed at all levels and the role that public health can play to improve ecosystem and human health.
Speakers:
* Lisa Gue, Environmental Health Policy Analyst, David Suzuki Foundation
* Trevor Hancock, Professor, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria
* Margot Parkes, Canada Research Chair in Health, Ecosystems & Society, University of Northern British Columbia
* Colin Soskolne, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta
Moderator:
* James Chauvin, Director of Policy, Canadian Public Health Association
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