Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI) “is a Canadian urban health research centre located in University College at the University of Toronto. CUHI facilitates research that examines how the social and physical conditions in cities affect the health of the people who live there. In close partnership with the Wellesley Central Health Corporation, its mission is to work with policy makers, community partners and academics from many disciplines to make great urban health research happen – research that leads to social change and improved public policy.”
See http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca/ (Canada)

Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health (CWHN) “is a dynamic leader in a partnership that focuses on timely and innovative ways of gathering and sharing research. Its mandate is to improve the health of girls and women by collecting, producing and distributing information, and by sharing data, ideas, directions and inspiration. The Network works closely with five Centres of Excellence to support broad dissemination of their research findings and recommendations. The CWHN acts as a central clearing house and resource centre for individuals and organizations interested in women’s health. More than 5,000 organizations and health education resources are included in the Network’s databases.”
See http://www.cewh-cesf.ca (Canada)

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) “is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, it is a growing network of over 1000 communities and campuses throughout the United States and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. Web site includes links, information, reports and research and papers related to the organization’s mission.
See http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/ (United States)

Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS): “Le CNFS regroupe dix établissements d’enseignement universitaire et collégial répartis dans l’ensemble du Canada et offrant des programmes d’études en français dans différentes disciplines de la santé. L’objectif de cette alliance stratégique consiste à accroître la présence et l’apport de professionnels de la santé et de chercheurs francophones pour répondre pleinement, en français, aux communautés francophones en situation minoritaire. Le CNFS veut ainsi renforcer une contribution significative au mieux-être et au plein épanouissement de ces communautés.”
Voir www.cnfs.ca (Canada)

The CNFS is comprised of 10 universities and colleges from across Canada which offer programs of studies in French in various disciplines of health. The objective of this strategic alliance is to increase the presence and the contribution of professionals of health and French-speaking researchers to respond fully, in French, at the French- speaking communities in minority situation. The CNFS wants to reinforce a significant contribution to the greater well-being and flourishing of these communities.
See www.cnfs.ca (Canada)