Events
Our Events
The SMART Training Platform is designed to provide trainees with the knowledge and skills to tackle many of the challenges faced in urban environments, creating smart solutions to improve food access, mobility, and health in Canadian communities, including First Nations. Our efforts towards achieving the objectives of the SMART Training Platform come to life through our diverse event offerings. The SMART Training Platform is rooted in fostering meaningful collaboration, amplifying the impact of the platform and the Healthy Cities Research Training Initiative (HCRI), and cultivating an interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral community of practice in Canada where none currently exist.
Upcoming events:
September 2025
Healthy Schools | Écoles Saines: Linking Implementation, Networks, and Knowledge with Dr. Kate Storey Webinar
Register below for our upcoming webinar with Dr. Kate Storey below.
November 2025
Healthy Cities – Lessons learned since the 1986 Ottawa Charter and priority setting for the next 25 years in Canadian Cities
Register for the Fourth Annual Health Cities Virtual Conference is open now. Call for abstracts are also open.
Past Events
June 2025
Trainee Series 2025
SMART is excited to have held our second trainee series. We had 3 SMART trainees who presented their current work in the realm of healthy cities and implementation science. Check out the webinar here!
May 2025
Summer School 2025
The SMART Healthy Cities Training Platform hosted it’s 4th Summer School in Montreal, Canada. With a theme of “Leveraging Data Science, AI, and Cross-Sector Collaboration for Healthy Cities’ Sustainable Ecosystem Innovation
Dec 2024
Seminar with Dr. Haejoo Chung
The SMART Training Platform & the Guelph Family Health Study Team are excited to announce a distinguished speaker presentation. We welcome Dr. Haejoo Chung from Korea University to talk about “Smart Healthy Cities: A framework for Sustainable Urban Health”.
June 2024
The Third Annual Health Cities Conference – Food, Housing, Mobility, and Longevity as Entry points for Accelerating Prosperous and Resilient Urban and Rural Circular Economies
The Healthy Cities conference aims to bring together researchers, trainees, practitioners, and knowledge users with an interest in building healthy cities to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange.
May 2024
Summer School 2024
This summer school took place at McGill University in Montreal Canada with a theme in “Harnessing the Power of Data Science, AI and Human Intelligence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Building and Bridging Learning Society and Health Systems”.
November 2023
The Second Annual Healthy Cities Conference: Imagining Healthy and Smart Cities of the Future – Building Towards Systemic and High Dimensional Change, a New Framework
As cities around the world continue to grow, new ways of thinking and the implementation of innovative solutions are required to solve the many complex problems that are being identified. Attend this conference to learn more about today’s challenges and potential solutions for healthy cities, where we can all live, work and play.
June 2023
The Implementation Science Summer School 2023
The SMART Training Platform’s summer school is an opportunity to learn new concepts, methods, and perspectives in implementation science. This learning experience includes small and interactive sessions, round table discussion and activities, and a case study competitions where interdisciplinary groups formed to solve a real-world challenge from sector partners.
November 2022
First Annual Healthy Cities Conference
November 2022, we hosted the First Annual Healthy Cities conference in Ottawa, Ontario. Focusing on the central place of food in cities, we discussed key topics such as the use of ‘big data’ to create smart solutions for urban environments, relevant challenges Indigenous communities face, and the many facets of the circular economy in cities of the future. Our goal was to expand the understanding of implementation science and explore how to build and support healthy cities through research excellence, capacity building and knowledge mobilization.
June 2022
The Circular Economy Summer School 2022
The program gave participants a deeper understanding of topics that are inherent to the development and maintenance of circular economies and approaches to solving these problems. This includes the opportunities and challenges that arise as part of the circular food and digital agri-food revolution, healthy cities, and the circular food systems. The learning experience will include small, interactive sessions and activities as well as case study competitions where interdisciplinary groups form to solve a “real-world” challenge from a partner in the sector.
May 2022
Webinar
Understanding and engaging adolescents in improving the healthiness of their food choices with Dr. Ellen Van Kleef.
April 2022
Webinar
Optimizing HIV-related implementation science with Dr. Stefan Baral.