Invitation to Attend

There is no shortage of knowledge in public health in Canada. Our challenge is what to do with all that knowledge. Exactly what do we know? How do we know it? Is it reliable? How can we share what we know? How can we use that knowledge to improve and protect the health of our communities?

I invite you to register for Knowledge Management in Public Health: Exploring Culture, Content, Process and Technology. This conference will examine and discuss the benefits and challenges of implementing a knowledge management strategy for public health, whether moving knowledge from person to person, or sector to sector.

Learn

• to identify strategies to promote knowledge management
• to recognize existing organizational barriers to effective knowledge management
• to evaluate different knowledge management strategies
• to access the “tacit” knowledge that resides in the minds and hearts of your colleagues

Discover

• what works - and doesn't work - in practical situations
• how technology can help move knowledge into action
• policy directions that can support knowledge management

An exciting and dynamic array of speakers will stimulate dialogue and debate. Sir Muir Gray, Director of the National Knowledge Service and Chief Knowledge Officer for the UK’s National Health Service, will deliver a remote keynote presentation. Using the analogy of a society’s right to clean, clear water, he calls the provision and management of clean, clear knowledge a “public health responsibility.”

Plan to join up to 300 attendees from across the public health community – from managers to front-line professionals – on November 4th in Hamilton, Ontario.

Donna Ciliska
Scientific Director, NCCMT