Presentation from 2009 Conference

Stronger communities and healthier democracies drive effective public health interventions; and careful deliberation through conversation is the key to successful implementation of responsive public health policy. This presentation reviews how the Hepatitis C Program listened and learned that an effective response is a sustainable response.

This presentation is focused on a dialogue with youth about democratic and electoral participation and what's important to you in relation to how they are involved and participate in their communities and society more generally.

Learning circles help develop a deeper understanding of community problems and fosters critical thinking and analysis among circle participants. This presentation introduces the Learning Circles model and guides readers through how this might fit with their organization.

This presentation improves understanding about how deliberative dialogues can be used as a knowledge translation intervention to support decision-making at the system level by presenting the McMaster Health Forum's stakeholder dialogue model and findings.

This presentation offers a US perspective and includes a look at public involvement and how it (and collaboration) have evolved at EPA.

This presentation looks both at the Art of Hosting (open) and Structured Dialogue as a mix of participation models for problem-focused planning and decision-making. While rarely used together today, this presentation explores why both perspectives help in today's complex concerns in democratic decision-making.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research recently developed a citizen engagement framework as it will position CIHR to improve its access to valuable untapped public values, perspectives and experience. This presentation provides an overview of the process of developing this framework and outcomes from it.

This presentation was part of the plenary "Social Media, Social Movements and Democratic Participation". In this presentation Haas Lyons explores how social media was used in Barak Obamas election, his transition to the presidency, and in governing over the first year.

This powerpoint presentation challenged participants to explore new ways of collaborating with each other using web 2.0. The experience mirrored the process of canada@150, a project that engaged 150 new public servants from across the country in a foresight process to develop a vision for the federal public service in 2017.