Continued Commitment to Teaching Health Unit Principles (Motion #18-10)

Approved on November 18, 2010, by the Sudbury & District Board of Health.

Motion

WHEREAS the Sudbury & District Health Unit (SDHU) has been a Teaching Health Unit for more than 20 years, fostering innovation, training future public health practitioners and improving public health practice; and

WHEREAS the current Teaching Health Unit Program, the Public Health Research, Education and Development (PHRED) Program, will be dissolved December 31, 2010; and

WHEREAS the Sudbury & District Board of Health is committed to continuous public health practice improvement through evidence-informed decision making, practice-relevant research and professional development, as reinforced by the Foundations of the Ontario Public Health Standards (OPHS);

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Sudbury & District Board of Health will leverage its more than 20 year history as a Teaching Health Unit and continue its commitment to the principles of a Teaching Health Unit, seeking funding and partnership opportunities to further enrich its capacity in a post-PHRED era; and

FURTHER THAT the Sudbury & District Board of Health formally acknowledge the historical contributions of the provincial and health unit PHRED programs, including the provincial and local leaders and staff, and the program’s advisory bodies, for their significant contribution to the advancement of public health practice locally and across Ontario; and

FURTHER THAT this motion be forwarded to the current PHRED program boards of health, the PHRED Steering Committee, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport, the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion and other partners including the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ontario Public Health Agency and the Association of Local Public Health Agencies.

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