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Celebrating 50 Years!

Can you believe it? We've been around for 50 years!

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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010

Celebrating 50 Years

The College of Medicine’s Department of Community Health and Epidemiology (CH&E) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this spring. Started in 1959-60 as Social and Preventative Medicine with three part-time faculty, the department began equipping undergraduate medical students to use sound scientific principles to interpret patterns of disease and to understand health issues in the context of the family and community.

Relationships with local and regional health authorities have always been important and continue to evolve. CH&E is currently affiliated with six research units and has forged partnerships with multiple provincial and federal health service programs.

Interdisciplinary research programs have expanded over the years and now include chronic disease epidemiology, population health, children’s health, gender and health, and aboriginal health. The department’s extensive research is a major contributor to the university’s reputation for world-class research, and the Academic Health Sciences facility being constructed will allow the department to enhance its role and reputation in community health.

The department has grown significantly and now has a thriving graduate program, averaging 45 students in masters and PhD programs every year. Graduates have gone on to become leaders in public health, health policy and health services evaluation.

To mark its 50th anniversary, CH&E is planning a special event on March 26. The event will include public guest lectures, a poster fair, and a dinner and dance with current and former students, faculty and staff to honour the past and celebrate the bright and challenging future.

We want to share the news with you and have you
share the news with former students, faculty and staff.

Please send us your current address and or email so that we can keep you up-to-date on the details as they occur.

chep.50@usask.ca

Celebration Agenda - March 26, 2010

2:30-4:30 pm      Panel Discussion*,
                              St. Thomas Moore, Auditorium
5:30-6:30 pm      Poster Presentations, Cocktails will be available during this portion of the event
                              Albert Community Center, 610 Clarence Ave S
6:30 pm               Banquet and Dance, music provided by the University of Saskatchewan House band (a former staff member of CH&E is one of the vocalists)
                              Albert Community Center, 610 Clarence Ave S

*Keynote Speaker: The Honourable Roy J. Romanow

Title: The Canadian Index of Wellbeing: Measuring What Matters – A National Tool for Change

Keynote Description

The Honourable Roy J. Romanow, Chair of the Institute of Wellbeing Advisory Board, Senior Fellow, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Former Commissioner on the Future of Health Care in Canada, and Former Premier of Saskatchewan will talk about the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW), its role in charting and measuring wellbeing progress in Canada and how shared values informs measurement in our collective drive to chart a course for a better and sustainable future for ourselves and those that come after us. Mr. Romanow will highlight the important role CH&E has played in the development of the CIW, how population health and its determinants are essential to setting good health policy and programs, and how the CIW will be the national barometer by which citizens can measure how Canada is doing in this field.

Panelists:

Ms. Georgia Bell, (class of '93) Evaluation Consultant

former community developer for the Saskatoon Health Region
Presentation: Reflecting on Relationship: Academic-Community Partnerships

Dr. Clemon George, (class of "99) Assistant Professor

University of Ontario, Institute of Technology
Presentation: Investing in Healthy communities: Using Community Engaged Research to inform policy and practice meant at
addressing health disparities.

Dr. Brian Habbick, Professor Emeritus

former Head of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, which became Community Health and Epidemiology
Presentation: "Heroes and Heroines" about some people whose work/research led to major advances in preventative medicine,
especially those affecting children's issues.

Ms. Anne McFarlane, (class of "96) Western Director,

Canadian Institute for Health Information
Presentation: The Next Fifty Years: Moving Forward with Health Information

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PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE USING PAYPAL or your credit card: Guests $50 / Current students $20

For cheque or money order purchases:

Indicate the type of ticket(s) (current student or guest) you are purchasing
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Cheque or money orders must be received by March 10 to guarantee purchase along with your name and contact information.
Cheques or money orders should be made payable to the "CHEP 50th Anniversary Event"

Send to: CHEP 50th Anniversary Event
                 Department of Community Health & Epidemiology
                 Health Science Building, 107 Wiggins Road
                 University of Saskatchewan
                 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N-5E5

If you need a subsidized rate for you or your organization, please contact Kathy Evans at 306-966-7945 or at chep.50@usask.ca

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