Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention
Our Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (HPCDIP) team supports Ontario’s public health system, community health care intermediaries and partner ministries. The department provides high quality, evidence-informed research, resources, scientific and technical advice, as well as other services important to public health.
Response to Public Health Client Requests:
- Tailored responses to Public Health client requests
In supporting your work, we help identify and solve problems to advise on programs and services and facilitate evidence-informed decision-making. - Timely and comprehensive training
We offer training opportunities such as webinars, workshops, coaching and other adult education approaches to support building organizational capacity. - Credible and evidence-informed resources
By connecting evidence and practice to support an evolving public health system, we offer a range of credible evidence-informed tools, resources, online courses and other useful knowledge products to inform your work. - Expert Document Review
As credible and trusted subject matter experts across a variety of topic and function areas, we review project plans, program logic models, emerging research and similar information to contribute to the quality of your projects.
Recent Work
Our People
Dan Harrington
Director, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention
Dan Harrington is the Director of Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (HPCDIP) at Public Health Ontario (PHO). Dan joined PHO as an Epidemiologist Lead in 2014, before moving to the role of Manager, Epidemiology & Evaluation Services in HPCDIP in 2016.
Dan holds PhD and MA degrees from McMaster University in health geography, and his research to date has focused broadly on leveraging natural experiments to understand in implementation and impacts of population health interventions. His research program prior to joining PHO has spanned across a range of health outcomes, including access to primary and specialist health care, individual- and neighbourhood- level determinants of overweight and obesity, and perception of health risks.
Dr. Erin Hobin
Senior Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- population health intervention research
- experimental and quasi-experimental studies
- Food, alcohol, and cannabis policy
- Health promotion and health equity
- Integrated knowledge translation
Dr. Brendan Smith
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- social epidemiology
- health equity
- diabetes and cardiovascular diseases
- population health intervention research
Dr. Pamela Leece
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- substance use disorders, harm reduction and overdose prevention
- public health
- health services
- quality improvement and knowledge translation
- program evaluation
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