Health Equity Summit - Dr. Cory Neudorf

The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH), the University of Saskatchewan, and the Canadian Council on Social Determinants of Health (CCSDH) held a Developing a Health Equity Agenda: From a Shared Vision to Policy and Practice Summit on May 13, 2013 in Saskatoon. This event brought together researchers, public health practitioners, policy makers and sector leaders in an effort to further advance health equity in Canada.

The purpose of the summit was to (a) bring together an engaged and active national multi-sectoral audience to address what is currently known on social determinants of health and health equity, highlight questions and topics that participants felt should be addressed, advance health equity approaches and build a sustainable network of networks (b) profile health equity work occurring locally, provincially, and nationally that may include evidence, best practices, and a set of recommendations for future work (c) contribute to the development of an agenda to guide health equity practice, policy, research through action on the social determinants of health over the next five years.

We were fortunate to have 8 exceptional speakers present on their health equity experiences. We asked the speakers:

1. What fundamental components are needed for a health equity agenda in Canada?

2. What are the first actions required at a provincial and national level in order to move that agenda forward?

Here's what they said....