View the recordings of our digital public health seminar series!
In the summer of 2024, we hosted a series of four virtual workshops on Digital Public Health, covering how digital public health affects public health practice, digital health promotion, design thinking in public health, and machine learning. To view the recordings, please visit our digital public health seminar series page.
The role of digital public health in the evolving digital health landscape
Digital health strategies in Canada do not often consider public health goals by being focused on provision of care to individuals. While overlapping, digital public health is a distinct field of practice. To learn more please see our recent commentary in Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada.
Pillars of Digital Public Health
These mutually reinforcing pillars are based on our 2019 scoping review of the literature about digital public health, which mapped the challenges described to solutions that must be considered in tandem with foundational public health principles to advance the field. To learn more, see our project page.