Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research

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dc.contributor.authorMcLaren, Lindsay
dc.contributor.authorBraitstein, Paula
dc.contributor.authorBuckeridge, David
dc.contributor.authorContandriopoulos, Damien
dc.contributor.authorCreatore, Maria I.
dc.contributor.authorFaulkner, Guy
dc.contributor.authorHammond, David
dc.contributor.authorHoffman, Steven J.
dc.contributor.authorKestens, Yan
dc.contributor.authorLeatherdale, Scott
dc.contributor.authorMcGavock, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorNorman, Wendy V.
dc.contributor.authorNykiforuk, Candace
dc.contributor.authorRidde, Valéry
dc.contributor.authorSmylie, Janet
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-28T22:38:21Z
dc.date.available2020-10-28T22:38:21Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractPublic health is critical to a healthy, fair, and sustainable society. Realizing this vision requires imagining a public health community that can maintain its foundational core while adapting and responding to contemporary imperatives such as entrenched inequities and ecological degradation. In this commentary, we reflect on what tomorrow’s public health might look like, from the point of view of our collective experiences as researchers in Canada who are part of an Applied Public Health Chairs program designed to support “innovative population health research that improves health equity for citizens in Canada and around the world.” We view applied public health research as sitting at the intersection of core principles for population and public health: namely sustainability, equity, and effectiveness. We further identify three attributes of a robust applied public health research community that we argue are necessary to permit contribution to those principles: researcher autonomy, sustained intersectoral research capacity, and a critical perspective on the research-practice-policy interface. Our intention is to catalyze further discussion and debate about why and how public health matters today and tomorrow, and the role of applied public health research therein.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationMcLaren, L., Braitstein, P., Buckeridge, D., Contandriopoulos, D., Creatore, M. I., Faulkner, G., … Smylie, J. (2019). Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 110. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-019-00196-2en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-019-00196-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12278
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCanadian Journal of Public Healthen_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectPopulation healthen_US
dc.subjectApplied researchen_US
dc.subjectPolicyen_US
dc.subjectSustainabilityen_US
dc.subjectEquityen_US
dc.titleWhy public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health researchen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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