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 August 2024

Food security and climate change impacts in remote and Indigenous communities in British Columbia

The BC Centre for Disease Control – Prevention and Health Promotion’s Food Security team recently released the findings of the project, Food Costs and Climate Change Impact Stories from Remote BC Communities. Read about their collaborative and reciprocal process of engaging communities, and their lessons learned.

Healthy built environment

Aspects of the built environment can modify and influence physical activity levels, social connectedness and interactions, access to healthy foods, mobility, and housing quality. This subject guide highlights key resources to understand how built environment influence behaviours and health outcomes, and provide recommendations for policy and practice.

Fermented vegetables: BCCDC Fermented Foods Safety Guidance

A new chapter on fermented vegetables has been added to the BCCDC Fermented Foods Safety Guidance website. These documents discuss specific food safety risks for common types of fermented foods and provides guidance on mitigation

Upcoming Webinar

Designing sun safety: Shade Lookbook
Scoping the public health response to drought

August 28, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:00pm Pacific Time

Angela Eykelbosh, PhD, and Nancy Clements
Island Health

Register free

Research Scan

August 2024 environmental health research scan

This monthly Research Scan highlights recent environmental health publications by topic and provides easy access to article abstracts and report summaries to support public health professionals, researchers, planners, students, and others working in public health.

Announcements

CIPHI National Annual Education Conference
September 22 – 25, 2024
Regina, Saskatchewan

Each fall CIPHI hosts the National Annual Education Conference for members. The conference provides an opportunity for members to connect, learn and network with colleagues from across Canada. 

In person and virtual registration now open

NCCEH presentations: 

  • Plunging into the cold: Health considerations for EPH practice 
  • Maintaining safe stored water in a changing climate

CIPHI Ontario Conference
Innovations in Environmental Public Health:
Harnessing Technology for a Resilient Future

October 20 – 23, 2024

Innovations in Environmental Public Health: Harnessing Technology for a Resilient Future will provide the latest technological advancements and innovative solutions in environmental public health. The conference will explore how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and data analytics can be used to address environmental health challenges. The theme also emphasizes the role of innovation in building resilience against environmental threats.

Early Bird ends on September 3, 2024 at 12 PM (EST)

NCCEH presentations:

  • Strengthening environmental public health across Canada: How the NCCEH works
  • Plunging into the cold: Health considerations for EPH practice

Biosecurity recommendations for Canadian fairs and exhibits

Since March 2024, highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) has been detected in dairy cattle herds in several states in the US.

There have been no cases detected to date in Canadian dairy cattle.

In settings where people and animals from different places gather closely, such as exhibitions, there is a higher likelihood of influenza viruses spreading.

Animal Health Canada collaborated with a working group of several provincial chief veterinary officers, industry, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Public Health Agency of Canada to create guidance documents for organizers and exhibitors to help prevent highly pathogenic avian influenza spread to cattle.

Webinar Recording

External Events

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