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1. Fran Perkins. NARO/IUHPE Regional Co-Director (left), Connie Clement CHP Advisory Board (above Fran) at IUHPE Board meeting in Australia supporting Canada's bid for the 2007 IUHPE World Conference to be held in Vancouver June 2007.

2. Centre for Health Promotion and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health were Co-Chairs of the Coordinating Commit-tee presenting this one day international symposium on mental health promotion on June 10, 2007 in Vancouver. This fol-lowed another international symposium on mental health promotion held in July 2005.

3. In January 2006, Suzanne Jackson, CHP, and Andrea Stevens-Lavigne (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) devel-oped and taught a five-day course on mental health promotion to Chilean health professionals as part of a Public Health Summer School put on by the Universidad de Chile in Santiago. This follows summer school courses given by CHP in 2005 and 2006 in Chile on health promotion planning and evaluation, aboriginal healing and wellness strategy, and media advocacy.

4. In July 2003, a two-week health promotion summer school was held at the Centre for Health Promotion for a group of 11 Croatian physicians from the National and Regional Institutes of Public Health. Following this successful summer school, a two-day training workshop on health promotion for 70 people from various Institutes of Public Health in Croatia was held in November 2003. Those conducting the training were the participants from the July 2003 summer school and they adapted modules developed in the summer for their course material.

5. From left to right: Nicole Vann, exchange student from the University of Brighton, England, Suzanne Jackson, Juha Mikonnen, student from Finland, Anja Ziegenspeck, exchange student from the University of Magdeburg, Germany and Danielle Schirmer, Canada–Europe Initiative in Health Promotion Advanced Learning (CEIHPAL) Exchange Coordinator.

6. From left to right: Dr. Shumei Wang, Dr. Suzanne Jackson, Director and Larry Hershfield, Manager, The Health Commu-nication Unit (THCU). Dr. Shumei Wang was Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, Fudan University and spent five weeks in Canada in 2006 as a visiting scholar learning more about healthy cities and children/adolescent health issues.

7. High school youth presenting a show they developed about health issues at the wrap-up conference of a Canadian So-ciety for International Health (CSIH) Youth for Health Project in Ukraine that received six years of CIDA funding from 1995-2005. The Centre for Health Promotion provided consultation in different phases of the project.

8. Youth and Health Project in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2006-2009. This Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) project developed youth friendly primary health services for vulnerable youth in both countries with CIDA funding.

9. Arab-Israeli, Jewish and Palestinian youth came together to share the results of their photography and video action proj-ects on their local communities as part of the Global Youth Voices Middle East Forum held in May 2006 in Tel Aviv. The forum was hosted by Youth Voices/TeenNet Research. Pictured here, youth sign each others soccer balls given to them as part of the forum package.

10. Suzanne Jackson at the Congreso de Promoción de la Salud in Santiago, Chile in October 2002. She sat on the Sci-entific and Technical Advisory Committee set up by PAHO to plan the Health Promotion Forum in the Americas in San-tiago, Chile, October 20–24, 2002. This meeting was a follow-up to the WHO International Health Promotion Conference in Mexico in 2000.

11. Fran Perkins, International Health Promotion Unit Coordinator, Suzanne Jackson, Lauren Cordwell and Erika Khandor – Canadian authors of background paper for WHO Health Promotion Conference in Bangkok, August 2005.

12. Ligia de Salazar, CEDETES, Universidad de Valle, Cali, Colombia and Suzanne Jackson, co-leads on developing “Eco-nomic Evaluation Guide in Health Promotion” with Alan Shiell, Health Economist at the University of Calgary (2002-2007).

13. The Centre for Health Promotion prepared the first draft of the “Evaluation Recommendations for Policy Makers in the Americas” based on the work of a PAHO committee, 2001-2004.

14. The Centre for Health Promotion developed the English version of the Participatory Evaluation Resource Manual with PAHO and colleagues in Trinidad and Tobago for Healthy Municipalities and Communities (2000-2007).

Since April 2000, the Centre has been the Canadian base for the North American Regional Office (NARO) of the International

Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). IUHPE is an association of individuals and organizations concerned with

the improvement of health through education, community action, and healthy public policy with official links to WHO, UNICEF

and UNESCO. The role of the Canadian IUHPE office is to promote, within Canada, broader North American participation in the

IUHPE. Fran Perkins is the NARO Co-Director and sits on the IUHPE Board of Directors and NARO Regional Board. Suzanne

Jackson is a Canadian trustee for NARO and sits on the NARO Board.

The Centre for Health Promotion is designated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in

Health Promotion. A WHO Collaborating Centre is designated by WHO’s Director-General to form part of an

international, collaborative network carrying out activities in support of WHO’s mandate for international

health work.

Contact: Fran Perkins, Coordinator, International Health Promotion Unit

Centre for Health Promotion

155 College St., Suite 400

Toronto, ON M5T 3M7

fran.perkins@sympatico.ca

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