National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Learning Networks

The Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC) is based at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia. The mission of the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre is to conduct and facilitate health promotion research that informs policy and practice and contributes to the health and well-being of Canadians with a special focus on Atlantic Canada.

The Cemtre has twelve faculty-based Research Associates whose research projects are funded by agencies such as CIHR, SSHRC, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada and the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation.

Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario

The Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario is an organization of approximately 75 full members who practice epidemiology in Ontario's public health units, as well as more than 100 affiliate members.

Atlantic Networks for Prevention Research (ANPR)

"A capacity-building project grant led by Renée Lyons of the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC) at Dalhousie University, and funded by the CIHR, Institute of Population and Public Health has developed two associated networks:
• Public Health Research and Knowledge Translation (PHRKT) Network
• aims to produce and use research evidence to support the improvement of public health and the restructuring of public health systems in Atlantic
Canada through research development, training and knowledge translation.
• Health and Communities Research Network
• aims to develop research capacity in Atlantic Canada related to the development and use of community-level data to clarify impacts of social and physical environments on health."

Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education (CACHE)

The Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education is a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration among healthcare stakeholders for professional and systems development to improve patient outcomes.

Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention

The Canadian Best Practices Portal is a searchable database of community and population health interventions related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion. Interventions on the Portal have been rigorously evaluated, shown to be successful, and have the potential to be adapted and replicated by other public health practitioners working in similar fields.
The Portal’s main components are:
• a catalogue of best practice systematic review sites from organizations such as The Campbell Collaboration, Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and The Cochrane Library.
• a searchable database of community level interventions; and
• resources to help reach public health planning, chronic disease prevention and health promotion goals. These resources are organized according to the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools seven steps of Evidence-Informed Public Health.