PLENARY PRESENTATIONS - February 8thMorning Presentations8:30-9:20Dr Merran Smith Presentation: Dr. Smith commenced as the inaugural Chief Executive of Australia's Population Health Research Network (PHRN) in April 2009. Prior to joining the PHRN, Dr Smith was a Director in the Western Australian Department of Health. She was in charge of the Department's Health Information Centre for more than 10 years and was responsible for establishing data linkage as a core Department of Health service during this period. She also participated in a number of significant nationally-funded population health research projects. Dr Smith has served as Chair or Member of a number of Australia's peak national health information committees. 
9:30-10:20Dr. Patricia J. Martens Presentation: Dr. Patricia Martens is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, and currently holds a CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair. She is the Director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, an internationally-acclaimed research centre for that uses administrative data to explore population health, health services and public health questions. She received the prestigious 2005 CIHR KT Award for Regional Impact for The Need To Know Team, a collaboration of MCHP, Manitoba’s Regional Health Authorities and the Department of Health. Dr. Martens has spoken at over 300 national and international conferences, and published over 200 journal articles, book chapters and abstracts. She was awarded the 2010 YM/YWCA Woman of Distinction for Health & Wellness award.
10:30-12:00Panel Presentation: Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Dr. Jennifer Lloyd and Dr. Marni Brownell Dr. Clyde Hertzman Dr. Hertzman has played a central role in creating a framework that links population health to human development, emphasizing the special role of early childhood development as a determinant of health. His research has contributed to international, national, provincial, and community initiatives for healthy child development. He is the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 2010 Canada's Health Researcher of the Year and the Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH) 2010 National Child Day Award.
Dr. Jennifer Lloyd Dr. Lloyd’s research explores the relationship between children’s school readiness at Kindergarten and later academic achievement, as well as how early social-contextual experiences influence children’s developmental trajectories over time. Trained in psychometrics, Lloyd’s methodological interests include growth modelling, multi-level modelling, cross-classified random effects modelling, and group-based trajectory modelling. Drawing upon past research experience with Edudata Canada and the BC Ministry of Education, Lloyd’s studies have shed light on the research benefits of linking population databases at the level of the individual child.
Dr. Marni Brownell Dr. Brownell uses administrative health and social service databases to examine child health and well-being, with a particular focus on the social determinants of health. Her research interests include developmental disabilities, outcomes for children in foster care, developing population-level indicators of child health, and evaluating programs designed to improve child health and development. Her work has highlighted the importance of using population-level data to study children’s outcomes.
Afternoon Presentations1:00-1:30Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez Presentation: Dr. Jacquez has over 20 years experience as an active researcher in cancer epidemiology and geography. He has been developing novel statistical methods for analyzing case-control data for mobile individuals, and the assessment of space-time interaction for diseases with long latency in mobile populations. Most recently he has developed techniques for evaluating the impact of geocoding positional error on spatial analysis, and the accuracy assessment of residential histories data.
1:30-2:00Dr. Doug Manuel Presentation: Dr. Doug Manuel is a community medicine specialist, a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, an Adjunct Scientist at ICES-uOttawa and a Senior Medical Advisor at Statistics Canada. He holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in Applied Public Health. He is the co-lead for population health intervention research at Ontario's Population Health Improvement Research Network. For the past 20 years, he has been a primary care clinician in rural and remote Canadian communities.
2:00-2:30Dr. Robert Pampalon Presentation: Dr. Pampalon’s research activities are centered on the development and use of a deprivation index at the provincial and national scales, and the study of the role of the local environment, or neighbourhood, on health. He has a special interest in populations living outside major urban centres, such as mid-size cities and rural areas.
2:45-3:15Dr. Jeff Reading Presentation: Dr. Reading’s research has brought attention to such critical issues as disease prevention, tobacco use and misuse, healthy living, accessibility to health care, and diabetes among Aboriginal people in Canada. His determination to develop solutions contributed to the creation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health in 2000 as part of a movement calling for a national advanced research agenda in the area of Aboriginal health. The outcome of the CIHR-IAPH is to improve the health of Aboriginal Peoples’ living in Canada and work collaboratively to improve indigenous peoples’ health globally.
3:15-3:45Professor Peter Crampton Presentation: Professor Peter Crampton is a public health medicine physician. His research is focused on social indicators, social epidemiology and health care policy. Professor Crampton has served on numerous advisory panels for the New Zealand government in a variety of policy areas related to public health, health services, health workforce and medical education.
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