PHO Webinar: Health Promotion: Celebrating the Past and Looking to the Future

Join a panel of experienced and visionary health promoters as they celebrate health promotion and discuss what the future holds for the field. In this panel discussion, Susan Stewart, Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh and Jessica Lefebvre, along with panel moderator Andrea Bodkin, will reflect on the evolution of health promotion in Ontario, the challenges the field faces and opportunities for the future. This webinar is part of the launch activities for Public Health Ontario’s new Health Promotion Essentials Online Course. This brand new course aims to provide health promoters and other health professionals with a common understanding of the history and development of health promotion, an overview of theories and concepts integral to health promotion, and examples of how health promotion is practiced today.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Summarize how health promotion contributes to public health and the broader health sector
• Describe how health promotion is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges of the future
• Explore the application of the new Health Promotion Essentials course following its release

Presenter(s): Andrea Bodkin, Jessica Lefebvre, Susan Stewart, Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh

The presentation can be found here: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en...