This week's feature article is from Carolyn Wilby and describes how to make online health information useful for limited-literacy web visitors.
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Vancouver, British Columbia
October 18-20, 2012
Join us in an exciting and dynamic forum for knowledge exchange and networking in the field of aging at CAG2012: Aging in a Changing World: http://bit.ly/CAG2012.
Toronto, Ontario
October 16-17, 2012
7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Road
Early Bird Rate before: September 12, 2012
The Many Faces of Addiction Symposium is a dynamic forum for examining the illness of addiction, and exploring treatment, workplace management, and recovery best practices.
Toronto, Ontario
September 19, 2012
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Oakham House (Church & Gould Streets)
For Supervisors, Managers, Executive Directors working in nonprofit organizations who have had little or no formal management training and are responsible for managing staff.
Toronto, Ontario
September 13 &14, 2012
The Scientist Knowledge Translation Training (SKTTTM) course was developed on the premise that scientists, and increasingly, other practitioners and educators, are agents of change in creating research impact, promoting research utilization, and ensuring that research findings reach the appropriate audiences. There is a skill set surrounding KT practice, and it is these competencies that the training course was designed to impart.
The SKTT course is intended for anyone who has an interest in:
Toronto, Ontario
Deadline August 30, 2012
Public Health Ontario (PHO) is seeking members to join its new Ethics Review Board (ERB). The ERB will serve as the ethics review board of record for PHO beginning this fall and in the future service will be extended to some Public Health Unit-led projects.
Candidates with a variety of professional expertise, including both scientific and non-scientific, are desired.
The Chair will receive remuneration in the form of a stipend. ERB Members and Community Members are volunteer positions.
Toronto, Ontario
Deadline August 24, 2012
Sykes Assistance Services Corporation (SASC) is Canada's leading provider of contact centre based Telehealth services, covering over 18 million lives with more than 400 professional nurses.
Registered Nurses - Personnel infirmières immatriculées
Full-Time or Part-Time (from 22.5 hours to 40 hours per week)
Toronto, Ontario
Deadline August 17, 2012
Toronto, Ontario
Deadline August 17, 2012
Toronto, Ontario
Deadline August 17, 2012
Toronto, Ontario
No deadline noted
Reports to: Manager, Health Professional Education
Department: RAHP
Location: Toronto
Status: Part Time (3 days/week), Permanent
Grade: C2
Purpose:
