Event Details

An increasing number of calls have been made to elevate Gender-Based Violence (GBV) to a public health priority requiring urgent and meaningful whole-of-government and whole-of-society response. At this time, few resources exist to support local public health agencies contribute to GBV prevention efforts within their areas.

This PHO Rounds will present a GBV Prevention Framework iteratively developed with support from Ontario’s local public health agencies and key community partners using a Delphi process. This GBV Prevention Framework:

a. Provides information about the determinants of GBV.

b. Demonstrates opportunities for action – at multiple levels from structural to individual – to prevent GBV and promote healthy, equitable, and safe relationships.

c. Identifies entry points for advancing health equity.

d. Clarifies the scope and roles for local public health.

e. Identifies factors to support the successful implementation of this approach.  

Marianne Stewart is the Manager of the Children Youth and Families Program at the Thunder Bay District Health Unit, (TBDHU) guiding initiatives in perinatal and children’s environmental health, healthy relationships and school health. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph, and a Bachelor of Education from Lakehead University. With a decade of public health experience, she is dedicated to reducing health inequities and fostering environments that support the well-being of children, youth and families. Passionate about community building in the Thunder Bay region, she has contributed to successful collaborations across academic, governmental and community sectors.

Dr. Helle Møller is an Associate Professor in the Health Sciences at Lakehead University. Her work focuses broadly on the determinants of health, social justice and equity in health, health care and health education with particular attention to northern, rural and remote regions, female continuum, perinatal, and Indigenous peoples. She teaches Ph.D. and Master’s students and has supervised numerous graduate students at Lakehead and other universities. Her research has received funding from CIHR, SSHRC, Public Health Ontario, the Ministry of Health, The Association of Ontario Midwives, The Law Foundation of Ontario, the government of Greenland and others.

Nana Nyarkoa-Oduro is a second-year Master of Public Health (MPH) student at Lakehead University. With an undergraduate degree in Public Health and Psychology, as well as her internship with the World Health Organization, she developed a passion for health equity, community health, maternal and child health, and other related fields. Nana is committed to advancing public health knowledge and practice, with the hopes of addressing community health outcomes for vulnerable populations. Currently, she is a graduate research assistant with the goal of inspiring collaborative efforts to enhance health equity across communities, ultimately leading to better health outcomes.

Oriana Rodriguez is a Research Consultant. She holds an undergraduate degree in Global Health and a Master’s in Public Health. Passionate about advancing health equity, she has extensive experience collaborating on research projects that integrate a gendered and intersectional lens to health research; including emergency planning, where she explored the rise in intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic in communities across Northwestern Ontario. Oriana currently works with protected persons and serves as a research consultant, where she applies her expertise to promote inclusive, evidence-based approaches to the prevention and eradication of gender-based violence.

The opinions expressed by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies or views of Public Health Ontario, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by Public Health Ontario.

Public Health Ontario Rounds are a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC).

Other colleges, including the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario and the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors, may accept RCPSC accredited events on a per-hour basis. Please contact your relevant college should you have any questions.

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Public Health Ontario is committed to complying with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact 647-260-7100 or capacitybuilding@oahpp.ca.