2012 Biennial Conference

​The NB/PEI Public Health Association's 2012 conference was held on Oct. 25-26 of that year in Fredericton, NB with the theme "Place and Health." Please see below for some of the presentations from this excellent event!
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Day 1: Thursday, Oct. 25

​Plenary 1: Built Environment: A multisectoral health issue
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​Presented by Mona Shum from the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health

Plenary 2: Wicked Problems in the Built Environment: Of health inequalities and bedbugs

Presented by Valerie Morrison from the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy

Concurrent Session 1: Vulnerable Populations
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Housing First in New Brunswick
Presented by Timothy Ross

Beyond Buildings: Built Environment as Space for Cultural and Spiritual Connection
Presented by Marie Kryszko, Lynn Dingee, and Tina Perley Martin

Concurrent Session 2: Living in the Built Environment

Design Healthy Communities: The use of design to build our healthy community
Presented by Daniel Savard

Older Driver Travel Behaviour and the Built Environment: A rural perspective
Presented by Trevor Hanson

Concurrent Session 3: New Directions

Presented by Sabrina Dosanjh & Neelam Parmar, Environmental Health Officers in British Columbia
Presented by David Hartley and Anush Hansen from the Maine Rural Health Research Center, University of Southern Maine

Day 2: Friday, Oct. 26

Discussion Breakfast: Enhancing Public Policy
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Presented by Michael Keeling from the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy

Plenary 3: Effective Planning and Design for Healthy Communities
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Presented by David Harrison, Chair, Healthy Communities Initiative at the Canadian Institute of Planners

Plenary 4: Politics and Mayhem! Courting Healthy Communities in Small/Rural Municipalities

Presented by Sari Liem, Urban Planning Associate with Dillon Consulting Ltd.

Plenary 5: Using Life Patterns Data to Explore how Built Environments Shape Human Behaviours and Health

Presented by Daniel Rainham, Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre at Dalhousie University

Post-Conference Workshop: Design Healthy Communities: Use of design to build our healthy communities

Presented by David Savard from the New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government