National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
2022-present (3 years)
At the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH), we provide the Canadian public health community with knowledge and resources to take action on the social determinants of health, to close the gap between those who are most and least healthy. We work with the public health field to move knowledge into action-in practice, in policy and in decision making-to achieve societal improvements that result in health for all. We are one of six national collaborating centres funded through a Public Health Agency of Canada program. We are hosted at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. StFX has a rich history in social justice beginning in the 1920s with the Antigonish Movement. The Movement began, led by Father Jimmy Thompkins and Dr. Moses Coady, as a local community-based movement in response to poverty affecting disadvantaged groups in Eastern Canada. StFX quickly created an Extension Department to teach and use these community actions and adulSee more
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