Enhancing policy coherence for healthy product environments: Bridging theory, research and practice
In June 2019, experts from around the world gathered in Montreal to discuss the pressing challenge of policy coherence for tobacco, alcohol and food governance.
Ethical Challenges in the Provision of Mental Health Services for Children and Families During Disasters
A review of academic and grey literature to identify ethical issues associated with the provision of mental health care during disasters, with particular attention to children and families.
Authors: Matthew Hunt, Nicole E. Pal, Lisa Schwartz and Dónal O’Mathúna
Link to article here.
Earthquakes to Floods:A Scoping Review of Health-related Disaster Research in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
A scoping review by Catherine M. Tansey, John Pringle, Anushree Davé, and Matthew Hunt.
Training Trainers in India
A first in a series of blog posts about an exciting new project led by a joint team from Amar Seva Sangam (ASSA) in Tamil Nadu, India, Handi-Care International and the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University.
Palliative care in humanitarian crises: a review of the literature
Palliative care in humanitarian crises: a review of the literature
A review by Elysée Nouvet, Mollie Sivaram, Kevin Bezanson, Gautham Krishnaraj, Matthew Hunt, Sonya de Laat, Stephanie Sanger, Laura Banfield, Pedro Favila Escobio Rodriguez and Lisa J. Schwartz.
Link to article here.
Building sustainable fieldwork partnerships between Canada and India: Finding common goals through evaluation
Building sustainable fieldwork partnerships between Canada and India: Finding common goals through evaluation.
An article by Caroline Storr, Janna MacLachlan, Dinesh Krishna, Ramasubramanian Ponnusamy, Donna Drynan, Carmen Moliner, Kristina McLaughlin, Susanne Murphy, Megan Edgelow, Margaret Anne Campbell-Rempel, Ann Bossers, Heidi Lauckner & Debra Cameron.
Canada’s global health role: supporting equity and global citizenship as a middle power
Canada’s global health role: supporting equity and global citizenship as a middle power. An article by Stephanie A Nixon, Kelley Lee, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, James Blanchard, Slim Haddad, Steven J Hoffman, Peter Tugwell
Link to article here.
Community Based Rehabilitation and Ethics: Eight Ethical Questions from a Review of the Literature
Stephen Clarke, Jessica Barudin, Matthew Hunt. (2016). Community Based Rehabilitation and Ethics: Eight Ethical Questions Arising from a Review of the Literature. Physiotherapy Canada. 68(2):197-205.
Link to article here.
Whole-of-government approaches to NCDs: the case of the Philippines Interagency Committee-Tobacco
This article points to the importance of not only structural features of whole-of-government approaches for NCD control but also the institutional culture and entrenched political and economic interests.
For more information and the article, see here.
Where do physiotherapy and rehabilitation research fit?
Stephanie Nixon and Matthew Hunt editorial; Global Health: Where do physiotherapy and rehabilitation research fit? " Physiotherapy Canada, 67(3), pp. 217–218
For more information about the Article, click here.
Perceptions of disability in the 2010 Haiti earthquake response
Matthew Hunt & colleagues' new study on perceptions of disability in the 2010 Haiti earthquake response.
Hunt, M. R., Chung, R., Durocher, E., & Henrys, J. H. (2015). Haitian and international responders' and decision-makers' perspectives regarding disability and the response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Global health action, 8.
