October 2025

Healthy high-density living:
Opportunities, challenges, and knowledge gaps

This evidence review provides an overview of how high-density communities in Canada can be designed to promote health and climate resilience through evidence-informed urban planning and public health collaboration in four key thematic areas.

Upcoming Workshop

Climate data in action: An interactive workshop for public health

October 29, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific Time

Elaine Barrow, PhD and Ryan Smith 
Canadian Centre for Climate Services

Register free

Upcoming Webinar

Canadian multi-jurisdictional enteric illness outbreak investigations: Highlights from 2023/2024

November 25, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

Megan Striha, MPH, BSc
Public Health Agency of Canada

Register free

Research Scan

Announcements

2025 CPHO report now available
Working Together to Thrive: Well-Being and Public Health

The CPHO Annual Report on the State of Public Health in Canada 2025, Working Together to Thrive: Well-being and Public Health is now available. This report explores the strengths of bringing well-being and public health approaches together to improve the conditions for people to thrive on a healthy planet, now and into the future.

Read the report

Call for Applications: 2026 Knowledge Translation Graduate Student Awards

The National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCPH) Knowledge Translation (KT) Graduate Student Awards recognize students’ work in public health in Canada.

The NCCPH will award three prizes of $1500. Award winners will use these funds to register for and attend the Canadian Public Health Association’s annual conference, Public Health 2026, in Montreal (March 11-13, 2026).

Award winners will also present their KT research projects to public health networks during the conference. The application deadline for the awards is December 1, 2025. Apply here.

4th Annual Healthy Cities Conference
November 12 - 14, 2025

The fourth annual Healthy Cities Conference will be held virtually and registration is free. The program, registration and more information can be found here: The Fourth Annual Health Cities Conference - SMART.

This year’s focus is on lessons learned since the 1986 Ottawa Charter and priority setting for the next 25 years of Healthy Cities. Please share with your networks!

New Health Canada indoor air publications

Health Canada has finalized the publication of "Guidance on Improving Indoor Air Quality in Office Buildings". This replaces the 1995 “Indoor air Quality in Office Buildings: A Technical Guide”.

Alongside this guidance, Health Canada has developed an additional document titled “Guidance for indoor air quality professionals” which provides technical guidance for air quality. It is meant to be applicable to many indoor environments in addition to office buildings.

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