NCCDH Webinar: OCI 4: Governance and decision-making for health equity (1 of 4): Intro

Webinar: Governance and decision-making for health equity
Date: October 17, 2019

As part of the Organizational Capacity for Health Equity Action Initiative, the NCCDH is hosting a series of webinars to discuss ways to strengthen organizational capacity for health equity.

This webinar explores principles of governance for health equity. It outlines some of the critical elements relevant to governance that support health equity action. Speakers discusses approaches to data governance. The webinar also highlights strategies for effective health equity governance and additional resources for information and guidance.

Speakers:

PART 1: Intro
PART 2: Governance for health equity (Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh)
PART 3: Data governance basics (Jodi Bruhn)
PART 4: Discussion questions

Agenda:

PART 1: Introduction
• Hosts
• Land acknowledgement
• Speakers

PART 2: Governance for health equity (Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh)
• Webinar objectives
• Working practice framework organizational capacity for health equity
• Guiding questions
o What are the principles and practices of governing for health equity?
o How do we equitably include people with lived experience in governance and decision-making?
• What is governance?
• Organizational governance & decision-making
• POLL: Which of these are present in your organization?
• Governance for health equity
• Principles of good governance for action on the social determinants of health
• Facilitators of health equity governance
• Authentic community participation
• Authentic community participation
• Reflection questions
• Tools: Authentic community participation
• Strategic intersectoral action
• A commitment to transparency
• POLL: Transparency in governance
• Enabling organizational and learning structures
• A strong evidence base and effective data governance

PART 3: Data governance basics (Jodi Bruhn)
• Hierarchies, partnerships or commons?
• Why think about data governance?
• The what (and why) of data governance
o Some definitions
o Why data governance?
o Why different models?
• Three basic models of data governance
o Hierarchies, partnerships, commons
o Single organization data hierarchy
o Data partnership
o Data commons
• Which to choose? Considerations and examples
o Some examples in Indigenous health

PART 4: Discussion questions
• Who makes decisions about public health activities and health equity more specifically within your organization?
• How are decisions about who should be involved in health equity initiatives made?
• How is accountability ensured?
• Are marginalized communities actively engaged in health equity governance? If so how?