Roundtable:
Health in All Policies in Canada: Moving from Incremental Change to Coordinated Action
(Health-In-All-Policy)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
There is a growing body of literature that documents successes, deconstructs challenges, and reviews implementation methods for Health in All Policies (HiAP) in Canada and abroad. As well, Canadians are witnessing repeated calls from health sector professionals, stakeholders and advocacy groups to develop an action plan for HiAP. Despite this momentum, further action is needed to implement HiAP in Canada, at all levels of government.  Organizations like the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy have long been working to take stock of HiAP initiatives, domestically and internationally, and synthesize learnings on HiAP in practice from health policy makers across the country. Well-known challenges  such as resource scarcity, sustainability, and health imperialism  have been documented as preventing large-scale, structural measures of HiAP implementation. At the same time, stories of persistence, proactivity, and strategic alignment were heard, about how practitioners adopted a HiAP approach on the ground in their day-to-day work.  This interactive roundtable will explore how to build support for HiAP implementation (inside and outside of the health sector), and how to use existing intersectoral policy tools and levers to advance the HiAP agenda.  Discussion question will include:  What existing policy tools or levers could advance HiAP implementation?  What is the relationship between intersectoral action and HiAP? How do we build from one to the other?  What incremental steps could position HiAP to inform the governance structures central to policy decision-making?
