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Subcommittee on Population Health

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Standing Senate Committee on
Social Affairs, Science and Technology
Proceedings of the Subcommittee on Population Health

Second Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2007-2008

Chair: The Honourable WILBERT J. KEON

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Wednesday May 14, 2008

Issue No. 5

Fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth meetings on:

The impact of the multiple factors and conditions that contribute to the health of Canada's populations — known collectively as the social determinants of health

INCLUDING:

THE FOURTH REPORT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE
(Population Health Policy: Issues & Options)
(Tenth Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology)

WITNESSES

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Statistics Canada:

Michael Wolfson, Assistant Chief Statistician, Analysis and Development.

Institute of Population and Public Health:

Dr. John Frank, Scientific Director of CIHR.

Human Resources and Social Development Canada:

Cliff Halliwell, Director General, Strategic Policy Research Directorate.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada:

Marc Brooks, Director General, Community Development Branch, Socio-economic Policy and Regional Operations.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health:

Hope Beanlands, Scientific Director.

National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy:

François Benoit, Scientific Director.

National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health:

Dr. Ray Copes, Scientific Director.

National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health:

Margo Greenwood, Scientific Director.

Wednesday May 14, 2008

Federation of Canadian Municipalities:

Michel Frojmovic, Director, Acacia Consulting & Research.

Canadian Council on Social Development:

Pat Steenberg, Project Coordinator, Community Social Data Strategy.

Atkinson Foundation:

Lynne Slotek, National Project Director, Canadian Index of Wellbeing.

Provincial Health Services Authority, B.C.:

Dr. John Millar, Executive Director, Population Health Surveillance and Disease Control.

MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE

The Honourable Wilbert J. Keon, Chair

The Honourable Lucie Pépin, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Brown, Callbeck, Cochrane, Cook, Fairbairn, P.C., Trenholme Counsell

(Quorum 3)

Changes in membership of the subcommittee:

Pursuant to rule 85(4), membership of the subcommittee was amended as follows:

The name of the Honourable Senator Callbeck substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Trenholme Counsell (May 7, 2008)

The name of the Honourable Senator Trenholme Counsell substituted for that of the Honourable Senator Callbeck (May 8, 2008)