Toronto Public Health’s Strategic Plan Progress Dashboard

Last Updated March 2026Toronto Public Health‘s Strategic Plan 2024-2028 serves as the guiding blueprint to navigate key priorities, ensuring the continued delivery of impactful programs and services to the diverse population of more than three million residents in Canada’s most multicultural city.

This dashboard showcases the key actions that contribute to successfully implementing our Strategic Plan, and highlights Toronto Public Health’s progress towards its vision of a city where all people can be healthy and thrive. The Status and Progress Updates are refreshed twice a year to reflect TPH’s advancement on the related action item.

Summary of Actions

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Action is complete, and all milestones have been achieved.

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On Track

Action is occurring according to schedule.

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Upcoming

Action is scheduled to begin at a later reporting period.

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Delayed

Action has begun and is behind schedule.

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Paused

Action has been paused.

Priority 1: Strengthen Health Protection, Disease Prevention, and Emergency Preparedness

Objectives	Actions	Status	Progress Updates
Prepare for and respond to outbreaks and public health emergencies informed by best evidence and lessons learned from previous responses.	Develop and implement a multi-year emergency exercise strategy and schedule, which incorporates latest evidence, best practises and lessons learned.	On Track	Conducting consultations with internal and external partners, including other public health units, to identify needs and explore best practices and potential future collaborative activities to inform strategy development.
Enhance emergency preparedness and response infrastructure.	Establish process for identifying and mitigating health hazards associated with mass gatherings.	On Track	Consulting with partners to identify existing sources of best practices, experiences with hazard identification, and processes for mass-gathering planning and notification: Key City Divisions involved in mass gathering planning Neighbouring public health units National and international public health agencies
Effectively communicate with the public about how they can protect their health.	Reinforce TPH as a reputable and credible source of public health information and services.	On Track	Conducting website content audit to ensure public health information is current, consistent, relevant, inclusive, accessible and citizen-centric to be completed by end of Q1, 2027. Developing multi-channel public education campaign on health misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation for launch in Q2 2026. Delivering ongoing media outreach and engagement through spokesperson interviews and media responses to provide accurate, timely and actionable public health information and guidance.
	Launch multi-channel public awareness campaigns focused on disease prevention, health protection and services provided by public health.	On Track	Implementing ongoing activities to support health protection and promotion through proactive and reactive multi-channel, multilingual public education campaigns (e.g., measles, routine vaccination, food safety, harm reduction, sexual health, dental and oral health, etc.).
Monitor and prepare for climate change and collaborate with partners to address its impacts.	Develop and implement a climate change surveillance framework to better assess risks of climate change to the health of Torontonians.	On Track	Developed a public health climate change surveillance framework and presented to the Board of Health in July 2025. Developing a Phase 1 public dashboard for launch in Q1 2026.

Priority 2: Promote Health and Well-Being Across the Lifespan

Objectives	Actions	Status	Progress Updates
Reduce the burden of chronic and infectious diseases across the lifespan.	Provide public health guidance to inform and advance municipal initiatives and policies related to chronic disease prevention.	On Track	Completed the 2025 Ontario Nutritious Food Basket Survey to monitor food affordability. Launched Your Health Matters collection with Toronto Public Library to improve public access to credible health information in Q3 2025.
Prioritize effective interventions for children and youth to meet their changing needs.	Increase access to healthy growth and development services for underserved populations.	On Track	Expanded Into Kids’ Health program from 44 to 75 schools to support healthy school environments in equity-deserving communities in Q4 2025. Partnered with local hospital and launched new breastfeeding clinic in Q4 2025. Launched online Healthy Babies Healthy Children referral form to expand program access in Q3 2025.
Advise on aging in place and age-friendly communities.	Collaborate on the development of the Toronto Seniors Strategy 3.0 through the Toronto Seniors Accountability Table, including to promote increased access to behaviours and activities that promote health and well-being, such as cycling.	On Track	Collaborated with McMaster Institute for Research on Aging to complete Phase 1 of the EMBOLDEN study with older adults in Q4 2025. Partnered with Seniors Services and Long-Term Care to initiate and deliver multilingual health promotion initiatives at Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation sites in Q3 2025.
Advocate for healthy social, natural, and built environments and collaborate with partners on initiatives that advance these goals.	Collaborate on strategies such as Vision Zero and Safe TO, to promote the well-being and safety of residents and communities	On Track	Contributing to the Micromobility Safety Working Group multi-partner table to collaborate on a public education campaign to address micromobility safety issues. Collaborated with City divisions on knowledge exchange sessions to promote healthy built environments and the Ontario Early Adversity & Resilience Framework in Q3 2025.

Priority 3: Promote the Conditions to Support Positive Mental Health and Reduce the Harms of Substance Use

Objectives	Actions	Status	Progress Updates
Deliver public health interventions that respond to the drug toxicity epidemic.	Partner to deliver training, education, clinical services, and supplies to prevent drug toxicity deaths and decrease risks of hepatitis C, HIV and other infections.	On Track	Offering harm reduction supplies to clients through outreach teams and distributing supplies to partner organizations to prevent drug toxicity deaths and lower infection risks. Launched interim harm reduction service model, including substance use treatment services at 117 The Esplanade in 2025.
Reduce harms associated with the use of alcohol, cannabis, tobacco and vapour products use.	Reduce youth access to tobacco and vapour products.	On Track	Conducting test shopping of tobacco and vapour product retailers in 2026 to ensure compliance with tobacco and vaping regulations.
	Provide current, public-facing data on the use of alcohol, cannabis, tobacco and vapour products and their associated harms.	Complete
Strengthen public health services that are trauma-informed and reduce stigma.	Offer training to all front-line staff on trauma-informed approaches to delivering public health services.	Upcoming	Initiated trauma-informed training for Community Health & Well-being front-line and management staff in 2025. Exploring opportunities to extend training approaches across Toronto Public Health and the City of Toronto.
Deliver public health interventions that promote mental health.	Improve referral pathways to quality mental health supports for populations and neighborhoods experiencing barriers to access, through work with health and community service providers.	On Track	Operating and evaluating Downtown CORE Team Pilot to enhance referral pathways to mental health services. Collaborating with Unity Health on the Concurrent Disorder Assertive Community Treatment Team as part of the Downtown HART Hub. The team launched in January 2026.

Priority 4: Advocate to Advance Health Equity

Objectives	Actions	Status	Progress Updates
Assess and report on health inequities and population health needs.	Implement the Sociodemographic Data Collection Plan.	On Track	Launched sociodemographic data collection beginning with a clinical pilot. Developing plans to expand to additional clinics and other Reproductive & Early Years services. Developed and delivered staff training on data collection procedures and the importance of collecting this data for the organization and its clients. Reviewed initial program data to determine completion rate and assess data quality. Further analysis is being planned.
Collaborate with partners across multiple sectors to address local health needs.	Collaborate with the Indigenous Wellness Committee for an Indigenous-led Action Plan.	On Track	Convened 17 Indigenous-led organizations and held 13 Indigenous Wellness Committee meetings since its establishment in April 2024. Completed the Miikaans Method phases (Vision, Knowledge, Reason, Action). Secured Committee endorsement to begin drafting the Indigenous Wellness Action Plan focused on mental health and substance use.
	Provide secretariat support for the Our Health, Our City Implementation Panel to advance mental health and substance use priorities.	On Track	Completed five Our Health, Our City Implementation Panel meetings in 2025. Three meetings are planned by end of Q2 2026. The Panel identified key mental health and substance use priorities, launched workgroups, and provided input on the November 2025 Our Health, Our City Annual Progress Report to the Board of Health.
Share evidence, advocate, and collaborate to influence actions that impact population health.	Build and share a dynamic dashboard that shows trends and characteristics of local population health information.	Complete

Priority 5: Nurture a Positive Workplace Culture

Objectives	Actions	Status	Progress Updates
Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and learning.	Develop and implement a workforce development strategy to support staff.	On Track	Expanded leadership programing to include at least two “Leadership for All” sessions per year to support staff growth and development. Wrapped up the Black Staff Mentorship Program in Q4, 2025 with 62 participants and an intent to continue in 2026. Launched the first Resume & Interview Skills session for staff in Q4 2025 with a second session planned for Q1 2026.
Develop and retain a skilled and diverse workforce.	Launch a formal succession planning framework that encourages growth and development for all employees.	On Track	Developed a succession planning framework. Piloting succession planning conversations and talent grid activities with one directorate.
Foster a welcoming and inclusive work environment.	Build upon and implement infrastructure to support effective employee engagement, such as employee wellness and recognition experiences and working groups.	On Track	Shared progress on the Employee Engagement Action Plan including a roadmap to strengthen communication, deepen leadership connections, and expand learning. Held TPH All-Staff Townhalls in Q1 2026 to facilitate staff connection and recognize staff achievements. Established a staff recruitment and retention working group in Q3 2025 to explore solutions for talent retention and workforce challenges. Launched the Winter Wellness Calendar with daily activities to support nutrition, movement, and mindfulness.
Optimize collaboration across Toronto Public Health for greater impact.	Regularly communicate Toronto Public Health priorities across the organization in order to improve collaboration and learning.	On Track	Implementing enhancements to internal communications informed by Employee Engagement survey results. Launched an improved weekly employee communications content calendar to reduce competition for readership, increase engagement and strengthen cultural impact. Moved remaining recurring all-staff corporate communications to an email marketing platform to enable engagement tracking that supports evidence-informed decision making and improvements. Employee communication surveys will be launched to gather qualitative feedback from staff.