IF YOU ARE YOU A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC with a Public Health complaint or inquiry, please call your local Public Health Unit. Click on the link below and follow the instructions to obtain contact information. http://apps.publichealthontario.ca/PHULocator/  NB: THIS RESOURCE IS NOT AUTHORED OR MAINTAINED BY alPHa

EVENTS  alPHa Calendar (Please click to see all events)  Coming Soon: alPHa Annual General Meeting - June 10 - 12 2012 Preliminary Package includes: location information, Call for Resolutions, Call for Distinguished Service Award Nominations, Call for Board of Health Nominations to 2012-2013 alPHa Board of Directors.   *** World Immunization Week (April 21-28, 2012) ***   The Ontario Public Health Convention 2012 April 2 - 4 *** The 0.5% advocacy campaign, which launched today, January 24, and continues until the end of March, is an extension of the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCDPA) Healthiest Province initiative and the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s successful Healthy Candidates campaign. This is a historic collaboration of health partners, led by the Heart and Stroke Foundation, that holds parties to their election promises and continues our push to make Ontario the healthiest province in Canada. Through MPP visits, local activations and engagement, social networking and a new and dynamic “Heart at the Park” advocacy day, we are going to do all we can to see this year’s budget increase spending on prevention and health promotion from 0.35% of the provincial budget to 0.5%.   Tell your MPP now that Better Health is Worth 0.5% by visit www.healthiestprovince.ca   Take action now! Please take a moment to log onto the site, send a letter to your MPP, and follow the “share” function on the site to extend this call to action to your personal Facebook and Twitter networks.   Together we can stop exploding health care costs and ensure better, healthier lives for all Ontarians.  *** Past Events: alPHa Winter Symposium - February 9 & 10 2012  ***  Archive of Past alPHa Events

NEW PUBLICATIONS Submission to Information and Privacy Commissioner (includes all documents linked below) Information and Privacy Working Group Deliverables: 1) Information and Privacy Tool Kit 2) Implementing Information Privacy and Security Training in Public Health  3) The Essential Role of Unique Identifiers in Public Health Practice   ***NEW - NDP response to below*** ***NEW - Liberal response to below***    alPHa - OPHA Letter to Party Leaders asking for statements about their commitments to public health issues in advance of the 2011 Provincial Election Please click here to download the new alPHa / OPHA / OCDPMPH joint publication,  Understanding the Role of Public Health in Chronic Disease Prevention in Ontario (Revised May 2011)  Cliquez ici pour obtenir la version francaise   2011 Board of Health Orientation Manual     Please click here to read alPHa's Winter/Spring 2011 Newsletter   *NEW* (Dec 2010): Activities to Address the Social Determinants of Health in Ontario Local Public Health Units Summary Report   (Cliquez ici pour le Sommaire Administratif en Francais)   The new updated 2010-2011 Canadian Public Health Directory is now available for purchase. Please click here to download the latest newsletter of the OPHA - alPHa Joint Work Group on the Social Determinants of Health

Welcome to the web site of the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa). We are a non-profit organization that represents public health units and boards of health in Ontario. Through leadership, participation, partnership and promotion, alPHa facilitates the improvement of public health programs and services that better the health of Ontario’s population.

On this site you can learn more about our organization and upcoming events, view information on public health units and download job openings, search our library of advocacy and policy issues, including resolutions, and, if you are a member, access a special area created for health units only.

To view the pages and public documents on this site, just click on any of the menu items on the burgundy navigation bar above.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have reached this page while seeking assistance on specific public health concerns you have in your community, please contact your local health unit. Click on the "health units" item on the menu bar above, and then select "ontario's health units" from the menu on that page for contact information.

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