Sydney Millar Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• COVID-19 and other recent health events have highlighted the importance and challenges of collecting, sharing, accessing and using health data to benefit people in Canada. Public health officials need reliable, timely.
• Lead logistics for Working Group meetings, including forward planning and material development.
• Contribute to strategic planning and engagement to support the development, dissemination and implementation of eight diverse initiatives to increase health data literacy and ultimately build public trust.
• Lead planning and implementation of the Synergy Series – educational sessions designed to build capacity within the FPT Health Portfolio to build public trust in how health data is collected, used and shared to promote.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) poses growing challenges to the health and wellbeing of Canadians, and people around the globe. This assignment provided me an opportunity to:
• Lead Secretariat support for an external Expert Advisory Group, Interdepartmental Director General Committee, and FPT Steering Committee, including meeting logistics and forward planning.
• Collaborate with numerous teams within PHAC and from other federal and provincial/territorial departments to support a… Show more Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) poses growing challenges to the health and wellbeing of.
• Collaborate with numerous teams within PHAC and from other federal and provincial/territorial departments to support a One Health approach to addressing AMR. Show less

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• PHAC's Public Health Intelligence and Knowledge Translation Division within the Data, Surveillance and Foresight Branch collaborated with internal and external evidence producers to create public health intelligence to.
• Provide overall leadership and strategic insight to the development of services that… Show more PHAC's Public Health Intelligence and Knowledge Translation Division within the Data, Surveillance and Foresight Branch.
• Provide overall leadership and strategic insight to the development of services that would produce living/evergreen and ad hoc knowledge products.
• Lead the development and implementation of an Agency-wide engagement strategy to gather key learnings and build support for the service, and lead collaboration with the project’s key partner.
• Contribute to the division's work to develop a knowledge mobilization framework for surveillance programs across the Agency, including leadership on content relating to monitoring and evaluation
• Lead the development of an implementation plan to support the framework’s dissemination and implementation. Show less

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• The Family and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Team works to build the evidence base about effective approaches to prevent and address intimate partner violence, teen dating violence, child maltreatment, and elder.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of multi-year grant and contribution programs.
• Provide mentorship and support to applicants and funded… Show more The Family and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Team works to build the evidence base about effective approaches to prevent and address intimate.
• Provide mentorship and support to applicants and funded organizations relating to community-based intervention design, implementation, and research activities.
• Champion and contribute to the creation of communities of practice to support funded projects.
• Lead the development and implementation of the programs’ performance measurement and evaluation strategies, including leadership on the transition from paper to online reporting.

The Sport Law team is a group of passionate sport consultants working to elevate sport. For me, working in sport and physical activity was never "just a job" - it's was passion project. I was thrilled to leverage my 20+ years in the sector as part of the Sport Law team to help sport leaders and organizations thrive and amplify the benefits of sport.

• My personal consulting practice was focused on knowledge mobilization support for sport researchers. Researchers tell me they don't have the time, experience, and/or networks to develop and implement effective and.
• One-hour coaching sessions to help you map opportunities or refine specific strategies.
• Half or full day planning sessions to help you identify and understand priority audiences,… Show more My personal consulting practice was focused on knowledge mobilization support for sport researchers. Researchers.
• Half or full day planning sessions to help you identify and understand priority audiences, define key messaging, and prioritize knowledge mobilization activities.
• Writing and editing for plain language reports and other knowledge translation tools through rapid reviews or co-development.
• Training and capacity building for faculty, students, and staff.

• SIRC is committed to advancing the sport and physical activity sector through knowledge. As the Manager, Content Strategy I was able to combine my natural curiosity about all things sport and physical activity with a.
• Lead knowledge mobilization and capacity building activities designed to advance the Canadian sport and physical activity sector.
• As “Editor-in-Chief,” write, solicit… Show more SIRC is committed to advancing the sport and physical activity sector through knowledge. As the Manager, Content Strategy I was able to combine my natural curiosity about.
• As “Editor-in-Chief,” write, solicit, support, curate, and edit innovative, evidence-based, and relevant content from researchers, experts, and thought leaders for publication through SIRC’s quarterly e-Journal, weekly.
• Provide leadership on national initiatives to enhance sector capacity, including a granting program to support collaboration between researchers and sport organizations, and the creation of an online community of.
• Support a sector-wide initiative to develop and administer the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport.

The Family and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Team works to build the evidence base about effective approaches to prevent and address intimate partner violence, teen dating violence, child maltreatment, and elder abuse. Please see above for details of my contributions to this team.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Canadian Women and Sport (formerly the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity - CAAWS) is a national non-profit dedicated to increasing gender equity in the Canadian sport and physical activity sector. After serving the organization for 15+ years in a staff role, I continued to support the organization as a.

• What a privilege to work for an organization so closely aligned with my personal values. During my 15 years with Canadian Women and Sport, my role evolved and expanded in many ways as I led projects that responded to.
• Successfully manage multi-year national and provincial grant and capacity-building initiatives through all stages of the project life cycle… Show more What a privilege to work for an organization so closely aligned.
• Successfully manage multi-year national and provincial grant and capacity-building initiatives through all stages of the project life cycle. Highlights: - Expanded On the Move, a national initiative to increase the.
• Liaise with government and foundation funders, and led proposal development and project reporting.
• Contribute to strategic and operational planning, and provided strategic insight on new opportunities for the organization.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with a variety of national, provincial/territorial, and community partners. Mentor communities across Canada to support action to increase gender equity.

• JW SPORTA is a small British Columbia-based consulting and marketing firm comprised of diverse and deeply experienced health, physical activity, and sport professionals addressing a need for the development of.
• Contribute to marketing and communication of two programs making a difference to the health of children in British… Show more JW SPORTA is a small British Columbia-based consulting and marketing firm comprised of.
• Contribute to marketing and communication of two programs making a difference to the health of children in British Columbia, and across Canada: - Action Schools! BC™ is a best practices whole-school model designed to.
• Manage the annual update of the Action Pages!, a listing of sport, physical education and healthy eating resources from across Canada, requiring outreach relating to 700 individual listings, drafting content, managing.
• Prepare interim and year-end reports for funders, involving the creation, collection, compilation and editing of project information. Show less

• As a member of a feminist action research team involved in a community-based organization designed to increase the physical activity participation and decision-making of women on low income, this role provided me with.
• Lead and contribute to the development of phase reports designed to communicate research findings in an accessible way to community partners and key stakeholders.
• Deliver presentations about the research findings and our experiences involved in the… Show more As a member of a feminist action research team involved in a community-based organization designed to increase the.
• Deliver presentations about the research findings and our experiences involved in the organization to practitioner and academic audiences.
• Collaborate on the preparation and submission of manuscripts to academic journals.
• Collect, manage and analyze data.

Ma, Human Kinetics

Thesis Title: Examining Multiple Discourses of Community Development in a Collaborative Community-Based Organization

Bkin, Kinesiology

Certificate In Knowledge Mobilization