Canada's New Government Announces $4 Million to Fund Centre for Public Health Methods and Tools

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HAMILTON - David Sweet, Member of Parliament for Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale today announced, on behalf of Federal Health Minister Tony Clement, that the Public Health Agency of Canada will contribute more than $4 million to fund the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
The Centre will fill a much-needed role in Canada by providing easy access to methods and tools that public health practitioners and policy-makers can apply in their practice settings. The methods and tools will be developed in concert with those working in the public health field.
“Canada’s New Government is proud to support this initiative that will help to improve access to the best public health methods and tools,” said Minister Clement. “This project complements other knowledge translation initiatives recently introduced by our government to support strategies addressing chronic and infectious diseases.”
McMaster University works in partnership with the University of Guelph, the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and the five provincial Public Health Education, Research and Development programs. The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is the sponsor of a Population Health Fund project to support the development of this Centre.
“Research into the public health of Canadians and how it can be improved is exploding, but in order for that research to benefit the population the results have to be communicated in an efficient, effective way to our decision-makers and the public,” said Dr. John Kelton, dean and vice-president of the Faculty of Health Sciences. “This new centre is a mutually-beneficial initiative for the government and McMaster, given our expertise in evidence-based medicine, health technology assessment and the analysis and development of health policy.”
The Government of Canada's commitment to renew and strengthen public health includes the establishment of the six National Collaborating Centres for Public Health. The Public Health Agency of Canada is funding each of the six Centres over a three-year period. Each Centre will receive up to $1.5 million per fiscal year, totalling up to $4.5 million per Centre from 2006-07 to 2008-09.
The National Collaborating Centres are catalysts for knowledge development and translation, providing better evidence for public health decision-makers and practitioners. They bring together public health practitioners and decision-makers from all parts of Canada and internationally.
The six Centres are: Determinants of Health (Atlantic); Healthy Public Policy (Quebec); Methods and Tools (Ontario); Infectious Diseases (Prairies); Environmental Health (BC); and Aboriginal Health (BC).
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