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Val Morrison

Scientific Advisor, National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy, INSPQ

Description

Val is a scientific advisor at the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy. Her work over the past 15 years has focused mainly on health inequalities in the following areas: intersectionality; policy approaches to reducing health inequalities; and wicked problems. Recently, she has contributed to projects on public policy competencies for public health and is currently working on wellbeing budgeting as a promising policy direction for healthy public policy.

Sessions

Evaluating Bold Policy Proposals - Urban Life and Community
May 14, 2021
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Panel presentations and live discussion with wellbeing research, policy and practice leaders to propose and assess the feasibility of specific bold, cost-effective, evidence-based and impactful policies for wellbeing.
Speakers
Val Morrison
Scientific Advisor, National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy, INSPQ
Stefano Bartolini
Professor of Happiness Economics and Political Economy at the University of Siena
Paul Frijters
Professor of Wellbeing Economics, London School of Economics
Alex Haslam
Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow, University of Queensland
Susan Holdsworth
Project Manager for RECOVER: Urban Wellbeing
Keren Tang
Participatory City Development Manager, J W McConnell Foundation
Gaynor Watson-Creed
Assistant Dean, Serving and Engaging Society, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University Society for Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine, and Chair of the Board of Engage Nova Scotia