How fortunate we are to have you as a friend, a resource and catalyst. And how well you combined all three of those roles in your recent visit to Columbus. From large groups in conference rooms to small groups in intimate settings, you give us a framework of experience to guide our efforts and to encourage our initiatives in creating healthy communities. The ability to challenge without intimidating; educate without preaching; empower without antagonizing are wonderful gifts for any facilitator to master and you are a master facilitator.
Tracy Wimberly, Senior Vice President, Riverside Methodist Hospitals, Columbus, Ohio, July 1993

By the way, your name has a magical effect around here; I hope you don’t mind but we will keep trying to invite you as often as possible, because you seem to be the one person whose judgment people trust unanimously, when it comes to public health issues!
Odette Laplante, Director of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Quebec , September 1999

Thanks so much for speaking at our Healthy Communities Institute last week. As you can tell from the enclosed evaluation summary, participants really enjoyed hearing about the four types of capital and thinking about how to balance them . . . I also appreciated the demonstration of your message through small group brainstorming.
Sarah Thach, Director of Public Health Education, Mountain Area Health Education Center, Asheville, North Carolina, June 2003 re “Building Community Capital: Working Together for Health”, Keynote presentation, and Workshop

We particularly want to thank you for participating in the Town Hall Session (of the Canadian Public Health Association Annual Conference). The comments and challenges that you delivered to to the delegates enlightened those in attendance . Many have commented on how they enjoyed this open format.
Gerry Dafoe, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Public Health Association, July 2002, re “Sustain What? Develop What?” Plenary Panel presentation, CPHA Townhall Session on Sustainable Development,

Your presentation was an excellent introduction for our focused discussions on research, and was well-received by the trustees.
Garry Cardiff, Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, October 1999

How well did Dr. Hancock perform for you? - superior And how well did Dr. Hancock me your objectives? - superior What did the group enjoyed most? - focused presentation, factual examples relevant to Phoenix, he clearly read the background materials and related his talk to the Greater Phoenix region.
Evaluation form re “Creating Community Capital", Keynote address, West Valley Dialogue #2, Arizona State University, returned to Kaiser Consulting Network from Dr. Mark Searle, Arizona State University West, November 1998

On behalf of all of us I want to thank you for your extraordinary efforts to compile, integrate, analyze and explain Port Hope’s complicated contamination story in understandable terms in your final report, and in developing a comprehensive community health survey tool and methodology for implementation. As you heard in the wrap-up meeting with the AECB representatives and our Board members, your results have exceeded all parties’ expectations.
Faye More, Chair, Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee, May 1998

Thank you so much for being part of the Trenton Healthy Community Summit. Your contributions as the keynote speaker and overall expert consultant for the day were invaluable. I’ve enclosed a summary of the evaluations we received for the day. You’ll note how positively your presentation and comments were received. In fact, we probably should have included more time for you as the participants felt you had a great deal to contribute.
Jill Mueller, Executive Director, Community Services, St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton N J, April 1998

I want to thank you for giving us so much to our recent conference. Your thoughtful and compelling presentation on the need for a healthy city to develop its human, economic, and natural resources in a way that builds equality and community was one of the highlights of the conference.
Dan Kass, Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Hunter College, New York City, November 1998 re "Public Health and Urban Planning", Keynote Address, Conference on Urban Planning and Public Health, Hunter College, New York

How well did Dr. Hancock perform for you? - superior And how well did Dr. Hancock me your objectives? - superior What did the group enjoyed most? - focused presentation, factual examples relevant to Phoenix, he clearly read the background materials and related his talk to the Greater Phoenix region.
Evaluation form re “Creating Community Capital", Keynote address, West Valley Dialogue #2, Arizona State University, returned to Kaiser Consulting Network from Dr. Mark Searle, Arizona State University West, November 1998

The conference on future trends and renewing health all that recently took place in Montevideo, Uruguay was a success. I wish to thank and your organization for your support in facilitating Dr. Trevor Hancock’s participation in the event the. Without him, the meeting would not have attained some of its most important goals.
Cristina Puentes-Markides, Office of Analysis and Strategic Planning, Pan-American Health Organization, to Charles Shields, Executive Director, Canadian Society for International Health, June 19th 1996

Thank you for your educational contribution to our “ Creating Healthier Communities Fellowship Kick-off” in San Francisco. Your Sunday dinner discussion . . . was tremendously important and thought-provoking . . . our review of your session’s evaluations shows an overall rating of 4.64, on a scale of 1-5, 5 being excellent.
Susan Trasolini, Associate Director, Education, The Healthcare Forum, April 1993

Thank you so much for your contribution to the National League of Cities’ Local Government Professionals Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. Your presentation on healthy cities provided a valuable introduction to the conference and helped shape a unique learning experience for conference participants.
Mary Ashton, Manager, Education and Training, October 1993, re "Healthy cities: past, present and future" keynote address

Congratulation on a great keynote address at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health prevention conference. You certainly inspired lots of interesting discussion and ideas, and we certainly appreciated the introduction of your talk to our later workshop on Healthy Communities Massachusetts.
Thomas Wolff, Director of Community Development, AHEC , March 1997, re "Holistic Capitalism: Creating the Conditions for Health in the 21st Century" keynote speech 4th Annual Conference, Partners for Prevention

We are so grateful to you for amending your schedule so you could participate in the first Healthy Communities Summit for Temple. Your leadership and guidance helped bring out a response we felt rested within our population, but which was previously frustrated and unheard.
Pam Hendricks and Don Murdock , Temple TX Healthy Communities Initiating Committee, April 1996

Thank you for your inspiring and insightful presentation on the broad vision of a systems approach towards community food security at the Food Security Conference in Nanaimo.
Flo Sheppard, Chair, Community Nutritionists Council of B.C., October 2003

Your session “A Health System in a Healthy Community: A Vision for the 21st Century” was rated on the delegate evaluation forms as very good overall . Several delegates noted your presentation as one of the program highlights.
Eileen McGurrin, conference coordinator, National Health Care Leadership Conference (Canadian Association for Community Care, Canadian Healthcare Association, Canadian College of Health Service Executives ), August 1999 re “A Community Health System for the 21st Century” Closing plenary

On behalf of all of us I want to thank you for your extraordinary efforts to compile, integrate, analyze and explain Port Hope’s complicated contamination story in understandable terms in your final report, and in developing a comprehensive community health survey tool and methodology for implementation. As you heard in the wrap-up meeting with the AECB representatives and our Board members, your results have exceeded all parties’ expectations.
Faye More, Chair, Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee, May 1998

Thank you so much for being part of the Trenton Healthy Community Summit. Your contributions as the keynote speaker and overall expert consultant for the day were invaluable. I’ve enclosed a summary of the evaluations we received for the day. You’ll note how positively your presentation and comments were received. In fact, we probably should have included more time for you as the participants felt you had a great deal to contribute.
Jill Mueller, Executive Director, Community Services, St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton N J, April 1998

The conference on future trends and renewing health all that recently took place in Montevideo, Uruguay was a success. I wish to thank and your organization for your support in facilitating Dr. Trevor Hancock’s participation in the event the. Without him, the meeting would not have attained some of its most important goals.
Cristina Puentes-Markides, Office of Analysis and Strategic Planning, Pan-American Health Organization, to Charles Shields, Executive Director, Canadian Society for International Health, June 19th 1996

On behalf of Health and Wellness ‘95 Committee, I would like to thank you for your outstanding keynote address “Healthy Communities /Healthy Futures” at the conference. Your contribution to this event is greatly appreciated.
Heather Adam Strolias, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Studies, Univ. of Manitoba, March 1995

I want to thank you very much for the presentation you made at the 10th anniversary celebration of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and Achieving Health For All: A Framework for Health Promotion. Judging by the feedback we received, the event was a great success thanks to your contribution.
Tariq Bhatti, Director, Health Promotion Development Division, Health Canada, February 1997

(We) extend our sincere thanks for your presentation at the “ Moving Into Action - Determinants of Health Symposium” in Vancouver. Overall, the evaluations were very positive and your presentation contributed greatly to the success of this event.
Population Health Resources Branch, Ministry of Health, Province of British Columbia, February 1995.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you again for your participation in the Ninth National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in Washington D.C. Your and Jonathan Peck’s presentation “The Future of Health in America: Can we Choose Health” was extremely well received and added to the success of the conference.
Jeffrey Harris, Associate Director for Program Development, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control, December 1994

Thank you for facilitating our recent healthy communities workshop. . . I was impressed with your ability to keep such a large group of diverse individuals focused on the purpose of the day. . . Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm.
Anna Hobbs, Chair, Health Promotion Committee, Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital , Oakville, Ontario , December 1993

Thank you for serving as facilitator at our recent Healthy Communities Workshop. Once again, your enthusiasm and personable manner resulted in a very successful day.
Anna Hobbs, Chair, Health Promotion Committee, Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital , Oakville, Ontario , March 1994

Thank you very much for speaking at our convention in October! We have had very positive comments about your presentation and your information has sparked a great deal of discussion.
Andrew Caswell, Communications Coordinator, Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations, November 1994 re "The role of hospitals in creating healthy communities," sub-plenary session, Annual Conference

Last year I had the pleasure of hearing you speak at a cardiovascular symposium in Wichita, Kansas. . . . You are a very talented speaker and I very much enjoyed the insight you have into our national health care debate and the objectivity with which you were able to express your opinions.
Judy Works, RN, Iola, Kansas, February 1994 re "Canada's healthcare system" (dinner speech), and "Health and heart health" (keynote), Tenth Annual Cardiovascular Care Symposium

I would like to sincerely thank you for your excellent presentations which were very well received by all. . . . You have certainly set the tone and have given the Community Health Department of the Newfoundland Hospital and Nursing Home Association some direction for the future.
Evelyn House Dupuis, Director, Community Health, Newfoundland Hospital and Nursing Home Association, January 1994 re "Healthy communities and health promotion" (keynote address), and "A bottom-down health system" (keynote address), Community Health Conference,

I am writing to thank you very much for your great personal commitment to the recent St. Petersburg business meeting. Your role as the overall facilitator was a considerable asset to the meeting. Your function in coordinating the activities and particularly in small groups sessions as well as in documenting the essence of what was being said was extremely valuable. Furthermore, your contribution to the good team work, which was very evident throughout the sessions, resulted in the very successful outcome of the meeting.
Dr Agis Tsouros, Healthy Cities Project Coordinator, WHO Europe, June 1993