Health and Learning|Santé

Our Work

The Health and Learning Knowledge Centre will:

  • Bring together experts, educators and policy-makers in selected work groups on a variety of age/life stages and healthy communities of learning
  • Sponsor an annual meeting of national research agencies concerned with health and learning
  • Support targeted collections of unpublished reports and studies, as well as posting on-line lists of key published research, documents and resources within existing research centres
  • Create networks with contact people, local agencies and institutions  including school boards, labour organizations and municipalities
  • Offer web-based links to relevant knowledge resources
  • Publish or support a linked series of print-based or web-based newsletters and journals by credible organizations already established in their respective sectors and systems
  • Sponsor a strategic selection of speakers and sessions at existing conferences and workshops in different sectors and systems
  • Organize major conferences and events on selected issues
  • Facilitate participation from marginalized groups and identify alternate means and ways to exchange knowledge with those groups
  • Identify and share ways to engage youth in health and learning
  • Encourage community-based and practice-driven research
  • Organize a high profile expert panel to galvanize interest in health literacy in cooperation with existing work literacy networks
  • Support the cataloguing and publishing of inventories of documents that contain existing knowledge
  • Propose or build on baseline studies such the current school-age health literacy study in BC or the Adult Literacy Survey