Figure 1 displays a map of Canada with the location and number of Public Health Officers placed by the Canadian Public Health Service between 2006 and December 2012. Since program inception there have been a total of 42 Public Health Officer Placements in 20 communities across Canada, involving 29 Public Health Officers. The placements have included: Whitehorse, Yukon (1), Yellowknife, Northwest Territory (3), Iqaluit, Nunavut (3), Kelowna, British Columbia (1), Vancouver, British Columbia (3), Surry, British Columbia (1), Calgary, Alberta (2), Saskatoon. Saskatchewan (1), Regina. Saskatchewan (2), Winnipeg, Manitoba (5), Ottawa, Ontario (3), Toronto, Ontario (2), Guelph, Ontario (2), Windsor, Ontario (2), Fredericton, New Brunswick (1), Mount Pearl, Newfoundland (3), Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (2), Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (1), Wolfville, Nova Scotia (1), and Halifax, Nova Scotia (3). Currently, there are 14 active Public Health Officers.
Appendix A is the draft logic model for the Canadian Public Health Service, which depicts the program’s long term outcome to “strengthen public health capacity by developing and maintaining a Canadian public health workforce with the depth and capability to respond to public health issues and requirements, and by strengthening the Agency presence in the North” leading to “Healthy Canadians and communities in a healthier world”. The draft logic model identifies the program’s immediate and intermediate outcomes as follows. Immediate outcomes include: Public Health Officers complete public health activities at the partner organization, Canadian Public Health Service helps to address identified public health gaps of participating placement sites, Canadian Public Health Service delivery model supports the recruitment, placement, training, mobilisation & retention of Public Health Officers and students, Public Health Officers and students acquire transferable core competencies and experiences that respond to a range of public health needs across Canada. Intermediate outcomes include: Partner organisations have enhanced capacity to fulfill their public health needs, and a cadre of Public Health Officers is qualified and available to function in a range of public health issues including mobilisations. Lastly, the draft logic model describes five activities that lead to the immediate outcomes. They include: Qualified Public Health Officers and student Public Health Officers recruited and placed, a prioritized, geographically and demographically representative list of potential placement sites selected, well established networks and partnerships with key stakeholders, applied set of core competencies developed to train Public Health Officers in a range of public health functions, and access to opportunities & experiences to develop competencies.