A critical component of this health-care transformation is the move toward people-centred health that can be powerfully enabled by eHealth information and communication technology (ICT). As Canada faces a looming health-care crisis, today鈥檚 Faculty of Health summit is all about integrating health and health care to ensure accessible and sustainable health services for all.

Left: Faculty of Health Dean Harvey Skinner

Roberto Nu帽o Solin铆s, director of the Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, will talk about the problems and solutions of transformation in health care in the Basque Country, Spain. University of Toronto Professor , chief innovator and founder of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, will bring a global perspective to the discussion, while Daniele Zanotti, chief executive officer of the United Way of 91亚色 Region, will bring the 91亚色 Region perspective.

Right: U of T's Alex Jadad

Harvey Skinner, dean of the Faculty of Health, is co-chair of the summit with Jadad and , who is president of the Canadian Association of People-Centred Health. Skinner will talk about the mission to design and test ways to dramatically improve the capacity to keep more people and their communities healthier, longer.

To do that, he says, it is important to go beyond traditional boundaries in medicine and health care and to work together to create an integrated health system. That means addressing the social determinants of health, prevention and health promotion, as well as providing accessible, quality treatment and rehabilitation when needed.

Left: Co-chair Vaughan Glover

The summit will provide an opportunity for participants to share key learning about what works and what doesn鈥檛 in integrated health systems and an innovative network will be explored for linking academic, clinical, public health, community and private sector partners with potential chronic disease/injury initiatives.

In the second half of the summit, participants will have the opportunity to co-create a roadmap for accelerating innovation in chronic disease prevention and management that will support the design, testing and implementation of integrated systems in the culturally diverse community of the GTA, including 91亚色 Region.

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The first lecture will take place on Monday Oct.聽3 from 11am to 1pm in聽305 91亚色 Lanes. Professor Matthew Evenden (right) from the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC) will聽present his lecture titled聽鈥淥f muskrats and minerals: The Second World War and the Canadian environment.鈥� Evenden鈥檚 talk will focus on the processes of economic and environmental transformation in Canada during the Second World War through an examination of commodities such as aluminium, timber, wheat; even muskrats have a part in the story.

Other speakers in the series include geography Professor Arn Keeling and聽history Professor John Sandlos from Memorial University, and geography Professor Graeme Wynn,聽history Professor Tina Loo聽and Professor Emerita of geography Julie Cruikshank, all of UBC.聽聽

The series is run in conjunction with a series at UBC's Green College with additional support from Networks in Canadian Studies and the Environment (NICHE) and the UBC Canadian Studies Program.

The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies is located on the聽seventh floor of the 91亚色 Research Tower.

For more information, visit the聽Robarts Centre website, or contact Laura Taman, Robarts project coordinator, at llt@yorku.ca.

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