Workshop - Motorized Traffic and Health: Interventions to Mitigate its Impacts at CPHA 4/19/2012 . The NCCHPP invites you to join us with speakers Dan Burden and Catherine Berthod at a free one-day preconference workshop at the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) annual conference, June 11, 2012, in Edmonton.

The workshop will focus on three interventions aiming at creating healthier built environments which appear to enjoy a high level of political acceptability. These interventions are:

• Traffic calming on urban, residential streets;
• Road diets on suburban roads to allocate space for active transport infrastructure;
• Redesign of main commercial streets of small communities also being used as regional transit roads.

This workshop will be bilingual with simultaneous translation (Fr-En, En-Fr).

Register now to the 2012 NCCPH Summer Intitute! 3/30/2012 . The 2012 NCCPH Summer Institute will be held in Kelowna, from May 15 to 16, 2012. Don't miss this unique learning and networking opportunity! Each year, this event gathers over 200 participants including public health practitioners, policy makers and researchers from all accross Canada. Many conferences and workshops will be offered, this year's theme is Advancing Health Equity, Building on Experience. The special Early Bird Rate is only valid until Wednesday April 25 2012, so hurry and fill out your registration form! To register, click here.

NCCAH is now hiring! Join the NCCAH team as a Communications Officer 3/12/2012 . The NCCAH is looking for a fulltime Communications Officer who will support NCCAH knowledge translation activities focusing on First Nations, Inuit, and Métis public health through the design, creation and adaptation of a variety of media including web content, other digital and social media, and print publications. For a complete job description, click here.