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CLASP Consultation
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It's Day 3 of the Coalitions Linking Action and Science for Prevention (CLASP) meeting in Calgary. It's been a whirlwind few days of meetings and discussion here. The CLASP initiative is being spearheaded by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, the Canadian Cancer Society, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. At the meeting are a few dozen researchers, clinicians, members of the public (e.g., patients), and policy makers from across Canada discussing how to make our chronic disease system better.

We are using a process called Concept Mapping (see: http://www.conceptsystems.com/ConceptMapping/ConceptMapping.php), which is based on cluster analysis and qualitative thematic analysis. Really neat stuff. In advance, we (the delegates) sorted through a series of statements generated through a pre-consultation about the priorities and challenges for chronic disease in Canada. We were then sorted into groups based both on our ranking of the statements and some adjustments made to ensure that there was a diverse representation of folk in each group -- of which there were 11 in total (groups, not people).

Our group has 8 people in it and we're charged with looking at 'Infrastructure and Policy', but really, it turns out its all about food and healthy environments. (Gee, how strange that I might have ranked those as top priorities???). As always, I've been stressing the need for partnerships and systems approaches, but you know what? So have the others. And the ideas we've generated so far have been outstanding. Indeed, the CPAC initiative as a whole is committed to optimizing the work that others are already doing. Sound familiar?

I feel like this has been a homecoming of sorts (and not just because I was born in Calgary). There is a lot of good work out there and the buzz about what we're doing to support partnership and knowledge translation work has been very well received. I'm quite pleased about where things have gone -- and where they might go in the future with my new potential colleagues.

See:

http://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca

http://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/coalitions

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