The roundtable became on Frontline Health in Canada asked an opportunity to connect the dots, the question: What will it take to make providing participants with access to Canada the best in the world at meeting new ideas and experiences and to a peer the healthcare needs of unserved and group that, until that day, had been underserved populations? [...] Leaving the roundtable at the end of the day, participants enthusiastically voiced their commitment to continuing the dialogue: “[Let’s] take advantage of the momentum…and in particular the energies of the people in this group as we move forward, because I think that there’s a sense of identity and ownership in what was done today…”1 “Part of what’s informing me is new language…and new partnership [...] The Frontline Health Dialogues: Ottawa Report 2007 3 Photographer: Christopher Grabowski Convening partners The people at the table CPRN’s research helped inform the The people around the table on June 21st Frontline Health program, a corporate contributed a tremendous depth of citizenship initiative of AstraZeneca knowledge and experience to fuel the Canada. [...] Despite their of the challenges and opportunities that different areas of focus, study and exist on the frontlines.4 practice, the participants recognized they share a common experience in their The roundtable day-to-day work and a common The central question and agenda for the conviction that all people should be June 21st National Roundtable on treated with dignity, respect and equality Frontlin [...] However, the people be engaged in this community overall isolation of this field of work and helping out.” removes it from the general public and from the portfolios of most policy- Telling the story of the frontlines and makers.
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