NCCDH Webinar: The anatomy of a health equity–oriented organization (6 of 6): Q&A Session

Webinar: The anatomy of a health equity–oriented organization: Insights on organizational capacity (Part 6 of 6)
Date: February 5, 2019

Speakers:
• Sume Numbe-Eyoh, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH
• Bernie Pauly, Bernie Pauly, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, and Principal Investigator, ELPH Research Program
• Sana Shahram, MSFHR Postdoctoral Fellow, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR)
• Benita Cohen, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
• Tania O'Connor, Public Health Nurse, Ottawa Public Health

PART 1: Introduction
PART 2: Bernie Pauly
PART 3: Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh
PART 4: Sana Shahram
PART 5: Tania O’Connor
PART 6: Group discussion (including Benita Cohen) and Q & A


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Public health organizations are increasingly acting on the everyday conditions that affect health in order to reduce systematic and unfair differences in health and social outcomes for population groups. As a result, organizational capacity for health equity — the ability to identify existing health inequities and act to reduce them — is a key area of investment.

To meet these aims, organizations in pursuit of health equity are encouraged to build their organizational capacity to engage in deep and sustained action. Organizational and systems capacity consist of various domains, such as staff knowledge and skills, multisectoral and community partnerships and leadership and governance structures.

The Organizational Capacity Initiative practice framework

Through the Organizational Capacity Initiative, we are developing and testing a broad framework that prioritizes influence on the social determinants of health equity action. This webinar discusses eight key areas of capacity for organizations seeking to improve health equity. These areas may have systemic-, organizational- and individual-level components. Strengthening organizational capacity in these areas will enable organizations to more effectively enact health equity roles.

Listeners will learn about
• key elements of organizational capacity for health equity
• practical applications of these key elements to address health equity; and
• systemic, organizational and individual aspects of organizational capacity for health equity.