Canada Multi-Sectoral Partnerships to Promote Healthy Living and Prevent Chronic Disease

A Canadian federal grant program launched in 2013 by the Public Health Agency of Canada to broker partnerships across government, business, academia and civil society aimed at preventing chronic disease. The Multi-Sectoral Partnerships program, often abbreviated MSP, provided co-funding to test and scale up primary prevention interventions addressing the risk factors shared by cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, chiefly physical inactivity, sedentary behavior, unhealthy eating and smoking, on the premise that complex public health problems such as childhood obesity require solutions that reach beyond the health sector alone. The program funded projects across the country for roughly a decade before it was phased out and replaced by the Healthy Canadians and Communities Fund, which continues its underlying multi-sectoral approach to healthy living and chronic disease prevention under a new name.