The following list outlines the Branches of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Infectious Diseases and Emergency Preparedness Branch, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, and Planning and Public Health Integration Branch.

The components of each Branch are described below.

Planning and Public Health Integration Branch
The Planning and Public Health Integration Branch is responsible for providing strategic advice and direction to support cross-jurisdictional human resources capacity, effective dissemination of knowledge and information systems, and a public health law and policy system that evolves in response to changes in public needs and expectations. In addition, the branch is responsible for implementing The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) programs in the regions.

PPHI supports the Agency in its day-to-day operations as well as around long-term planning and policy development.

The Branch provides a senior-level focus on the provision of integrated and coordinated strategic direction and communications advice to realize the Agency's priorities and commitments and on the effective and efficient delivery of Agency corporate services and sound operational management in both the Winnipeg and Ottawa pillars.

The PPHI Branch's responsibilities include: the provision of strategic policy advice and coordination; managing policy partnerships and development with stakeholders including provinces and territories and international organizations; managing the Agency's communication plans and strategies; delivering comptrollership functions (including planning and reporting) to assure probity, value for money and compliance with applicable federal legislation and policies; providing human resources advice and services, information management and information technology expertise and leadership, and asset management services (including safety and security).

Corporate Secretariat
The Corporate Secretariat is responsible for coordinating various services in support of the Minister of Health and the Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO). It houses the Ministerial Briefing and Correspondence Unit, which serves as a single point of entry between the Ministers' offices and the Agency. This unit coordinates executive and ministerial correspondence and briefing requirements about the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) programs and issues for the Minister of Health as well as for the CPHO. The Corporate Secretariat is responsible for services related to the Agency's Cabinet and Parliamentary business; coordinates Access to Information and Privacy requests on behalf of the Agency; and provides secretariat support to selected PHAC governance committees.

Human Resources Directorate
The Human Resources Directorate (HRD) provides the Public Health Agency of Canada with services for recruitment, internal appointment action, organizational design and position classification, compensation management, labour relations and human resources planning.

To ensure a consistent and horizontal approach to human resource management across the Agency, the HR Directorate also develops and/or implements human resources policies across the spectrum of HR disciplines and provides strategic policy advice on human resources management. The delivery of employee programs is paramount to workplace wellbeing and, to this end; the HR Directorate delivers corporate programs to all Agency staff in the areas of employee assistance, orientation, recognition, continuous learning and development, values and ethics, performance management, employment equity/diversity and official languages.

The HR Directorate is also responsible for the coordination of activities, delivered through the Agency's programs that foster the development of Official Languages Minority Communities across Canada as required under Part VII of the Official Languages Act.

Information Management/Information Technology
The Information Management / Information Technology Directorate provide the Public Health Agency of Canada with corporate support associated with information management and project management relating to the delivery of information services. It also provides software product development; information technology security services; IT infrastructure, network and desktop support services; service management with Government of Canada IM/IT service providers and standards and policy compliance and management.

Strategic Policy Directorate
The Strategic Policy Directorate (SPD) provides the Minister of Health, the Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) organizations with strategic policy direction and advice on public health issues. With policy expertise and co-ordination, the Directorate staff collaborates with analysts in all areas of the Agency to develop, articulate and integrate Agency related policies. The Directorate gathers and synthesizes key policy information, creating and cultivating internal and external partnerships, and provides sound, evidence-based policy advice on matters related to international public health, policy research, strategic relations with public health partners, Federal/Provincial/Territorial relations and Aboriginal relations. SPD is also responsible for providing the Secretariat to the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network (PHN) Council and the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health (CCMOH).

Communications Directorate
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)'s Communications Directorate plays an important and strategic role within the management function of the Agency. More than just a service provider, Communications works hand-in-hand with policy and program staff to help manage key issues for both internal and external audiences. Communications staff sits at the management tables in each Branch and provide insight and advice on the communications implications of, and recommendations for, Agency policies, programs and activities.

Corporate Administration, Facilities, and Security Directorate
The Corporate Administration, Facilities and Security Directorate is responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring a wide range of Agency administrative services, including facilities, accommodations, security, health and safety, business continuity planning, supply chain management, contracting, investment planning, project management framework, environmental management and sustainable development.

Office of Public Health Practice (OPHP)
The Office of Public Health Practice (OPHP) collaborates with internal and external partners to support effective Public Health Practice, including on the development, maintenance and use of health surveillance information; and the tools and skills to increase the capacity of public health professionals and decision makers across Canada, which enables them to protect the health of Canadians through timely and informed decision making. The Office provides coordination and strategic vision for the development of Public Health workforce capacity and public health law in Canada.

Regional Operations
The Public Health Agency of Canada includes a Canada-wide infrastructure of six regional offices with approximately 300 employees posted in 16 locations. Agency Regional Offices also work closely with Health Canada's Northern Region to provide services in the Territories. Agency Regional Offices include Atlantic Region, Quebec Region, Ontario and Nunavut Region, Manitoba and Saskatchewan Region, Alberta and Northwest Territories Region and British Columbia and Yukon Region.

The regional offices develop, maintain and strengthen relationships with local/regional, provincial/territorial and federal governments as well as non-governmental organizations and academia, and support the public health responses to emergencies. Agency Regional Offices also connect and support stakeholders, including those outside the health sector, to take action on national priorities, gather public health information and build on resources at the regional, provincial and district levels.

Key roles include: implementing, managing and monitoring the regional component of national programs, including the following Grant and Contribution programs, which support the work of non-profit, community-based organizations in addressing public health issues: Aboriginal Head Start; AIDS Community Action Program; Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program; Community Action Program for Children; Innovation and Learning Strategy; Hepatitis C Disease Prevention; and the Canadian Diabetes Strategy.

Audit Services Division
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Internal Audit function provides the Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO), the Minister, and Agency management with an independent capability to perform audits that is consistent with agency and central agency policies; to respond to agency priorities; and to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, and economy of operations. The function provides independent, professional and high quality audit services, founded on sound values and ethics, to support informed decision making and accountability across the Agency. Internal audit activity helps PHAC accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to support and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)
OCFO provides the Chief Public Health Officer, the Minister and Agency Executive with strategic advice on expenditures and value-for-money, as well as anticipating and promoting future trends. In particular, the OCFO provides the necessary enabling frameworks, policies, systems and best practices and tools to support financial management and operations; ensures prudence and probity in compliance with government financial policies and regulations; strengthens risk management practices; enhances performance measurement and reporting in accordance with guidelines provided by Treasury Board Secretariat; promotes efficient administrative shared services; and, monitors and reports on the overall implementation of the government's Management Accountability Framework (MAF) in accordance with guidelines provided by Treasury Board Secretariat. The OCFO is also responsible for Corporate Planning and Reporting, including the facilitation of internal planning processes, the Report on Plans and Priorities, and the Departmental Performance Report. The Chief Financial Officer is a key member of the Agency's Executive Team and also the lead executive with Central Agencies for overall financial management, with a functional reporting relationship to the Comptroller General of Canada.

Infectious Disease and Emergency Preparedness Branch (IDEP)
The Infectious Disease and Emergency Preparedness Branch is responsible for ongoing domestic surveillance, research, technical assistance, investigation, and response to infectious disease outbreaks and global disease events; maintaining a state of readiness to respond to public health emergencies; and policy and program development around the promotion, prevention and protection of public health. IDEP leads the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)'s work around planning and coordinating pandemic influenza preparedness, and is responsible for the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector. The Plan maps out how Canadian health sector will prepare for, and respond to, an influenza pandemic, and has been developed through a collaborative process between federal, provincial, territorial, local and regional governments and non-government stakeholders.

Centers / Directorates

Policy Integration, Planning, Reporting and International Directorate (PIPRID)
The Directorate is responsible for providing support to the branch in the areas of business operations, corporate planning, information management and policy integration. The policy coordination section acts as the liaison to the divisions and Centers regarding Emergency Preparedness, Foodborne, Waterborne, Zoonotic projects/ activities. They also provide policy implementation for F/P/T committees. Migration and travel health is also housed within PIPRID.

Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR)
The Centre (CEPR) leads Canada's federal public health emergency management system, providing capacity to anticipate and respond to public health threats in partnership with Health Canada, provincial and territorial governments, international organizations and volunteer sectors.

It provides leadership to address emerging threats to the health and safety of Canadians through surveillance, risk analysis, and risk management. It addresses preparedness and response priorities in applying the Quarantine Act and the International Health Regulations, supporting the development of health-related emergency response plans. It manages the National Emergency Stockpile System, and supports the development of Health Emergency Response Teams.

CEPR is the National Focal Point for compliance with the International Health Regulations. It provides a 24/7 communication hub for public health emergencies of international concern and manages the Health Portfolio Operations Centre, enabling the portfolio's 24/7 capacity to respond to such events. CEPR provides leadership and coordination for pan-Canadian health emergency management priorities such as the National Health Incident Management System (NHIMS) and the National Surge Capacity Strategy.

Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control (CCDIC)
The Centre promotes improvement in the health status of Canadians in the area of infectious diseases through public health action. These actions include surveillance and epidemiology, risk analysis and risk management activities, health prevention and promotion, public health policy development, and outbreak response. CCDIC's objectives are to prevent and decrease the transmission of infectious diseases and to improve the health status of those infected. The Centre's program areas focus on key priority issues including: tuberculosis and other respiratory infections; HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections; hepatitis B and hepatitis C and health-care acquired infections. The Centre works in close partnership with Canada's provinces and territories, NGOs, healthcare workers and with international agencies to accomplish its mandate.

Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CFEZID)
The Centre's core program areas include food and water-borne outbreak management, surveillance and related research in enteric, vector-borne and zoonotic infections including West Nile virus and avian influenza. The Centre's scientific expertise are in the areas of animal to human disease transmission, epidemiology and surveillance, veterinary public health, management of outbreaks and related policy issues and emerging environmental and public health issues especially those relating to food-borne, water-borne or zoonotic microbiological contamination. The Centre responds to national and international food- and water-borne outbreak events, produces enteric disease surveillance reports and conducts specialized research to assess the risks from enteric and vector-borne diseases to specific populations and communities, including aboriginals and children. It also links to other human health-animal health-ecosystem health strategies in other federal departments (Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, etc.) along with provincial and territorial health and environmental agencies. In addition, the Centre is strategically positioned to engage with international public health organizations, such as the World Health Organization and PAHO, on emerging global food-borne, environmental and zoonotic infectious diseases.

National Microbiology Laboratory (NML)
The NML supports Canada's efforts in preventing and controlling infectious diseases by providing national public health laboratory services and conducting applied and discovery research into established, emerging and rare infectious diseases.

The four laboratory divisions, each of which comprises disease- or function-specific areas, include: Bacteriology and Enteric Diseases; Prion Diseases; Viral Diseases; and Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens.

Fundamental to the fulfillment of both the laboratory's and the Agency's mandate, all scientific activities performed by NML divisions address the core functions of: reference and diagnostic services; surveillance activities; applied and discovery research; development and training; and emergency preparedness and outbreak response.

Science activities are supported by the following program areas:

Science Technologies and Core Services – including genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics.

Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence (CNPHI) - facilitating the dissemination of strategic intelligence and the coordination of public health responses through this national web-based tool.

Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network (CPHLN) - providing Secretariat services to a national forum of federal and provincial public health laboratories.

Office of Biorisk Management – providing training, education and professional assistance, applied research and development of tools and products to laboratories and facilities working with infectious substances.

Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses (LFZ)
The Laboratory provides policy makers and other stakeholders with scientific information and advice on minimizing the risks of human illnesses arising from the interface between humans, animals and the environment, with special emphasis on infections due to enteric pathogens (intestinal disease-causing agents). Located in Guelph, Ontario, with satellite units in Lethbridge, Alberta, and St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, these locations provide opportunities for collaborative projects with universities, government agencies (federal and provincial), and public health and industry partners in delivery of the program objectives.

Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infections Diseases (CIRID)
The Centre acts through programs addressing vaccine preventable diseases, emerging infectious diseases (e.g., SARS, human avian influenza), vaccine safety, and pandemic influenza. The Centre aims to prevent, reduce or eliminate vaccine preventable and infectious respiratory diseases; reduce the negative impact of emerging and re-emerging respiratory infections and maintain public confidence in immunization programs in Canada. In partnership with provinces and territories, the Centre is responsible for the national surveillance of vaccine preventable and infectious respiratory diseases, including influenza, surveillance of and response to adverse events following immunization and monitoring of immunization status, including supporting the development of immunization registries in Canada. It provides scientific and administrative support to the National Advisory Committee on Immunization and the Pandemic Influenza Committee. The Centre also investigates and coordinates investigations of vaccine preventable and infectious respiratory disease outbreaks across Canada, identifies and communicates emerging vaccine-preventable and infectious respiratory disease threats to Canadians, establishes national disease reduction goals, and provides guidance and direction, when requested, by provincial or territorial public health authorities when outbreaks of vaccine preventable or infectious respiratory diseases occur in individual jurisdictions. Through the Canadian Immunization Committee, the Centre also leads the implementation of the National Immunization Strategy to conduct, support, and coordinate applied public health research in the areas of immunization and infectious respiratory disease; ensure best value for vaccines and the long-term security of vaccine supply and provides public and professional education events and materials. The Centre collaborates with other national governments and international organizations to prevent and control vaccine preventable and infectious respiratory diseases.

Offices/ Divisions

Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division
This division's mission is to prevent, reduce and contain the risk of acquiring health-care associated infections for people who encounter, use or work in the Canadian public health and health care systems. It fosters and engages in partnerships and networks to perform public health activities such as surveillance, risk analysis, policy analysis, and targeted research and dissemination of various communication products. The current priorities are the nosocomial and occupational infections projects and the blood safety surveillance network.

Community Acquired Infections
The programs within the Community Acquired Infections Division (CAID), in collaboration with the provinces and territories, and health, education and other inter-sectoral partners, provide national leadership and coordination of surveillance, targeted research studies, development of policy recommendations, as well as disease prevention and health promotion activities. Within the Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections Program, such activities include the development of evidence based national guidelines, consensus statements and educational products, the support of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education for youth, facilitation and coordination of information sharing and capacity building as well as working to distribute and increase access to information on sexual and reproductive health. It also supports efforts to prevent and control sexually transmitted infections and their complications, including cancer and infertility, both in the general population and in key groups at greatest risk. The Surveillance and Epidemiology Program operates surveillance systems with respect to sexually transmitted infections, hepatitis C and tuberculosis, in collaboration with key partners. It provides data, analysis and interpretation to inform and support prevention, policy and programming activities related to STIs and community-acquired Hepatitis C; and publishes quarterly STI and HCV statistics and generates surveillance reports (including epi-updates) based on analyses of data from its enhanced surveillance programs.

Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STBBI) Strategy
The Hepatitis C Prevention, Support and Research Program designs, develops, and implements projects that will contribute to the prevention of hepatitis C virus (HCV), and support people infected with, and affected by the virus. It provides evidence in support of policy and programming decisions, strengthens partners' capacity to address the HCV epidemic, and increases public awareness about HCV, both domestically and in the international community. It strives to reduce the risks associated with certain behaviours and addresses issues of co-infection with related sexually transmitted infections, blood borne viruses and tuberculosis. In addition, the Policy, Evaluation and Extraordinary Assistance Plan Program provides policy support and expertise on hepatitis C compensation issues, and oversees the transfer of funds to the provinces and territories for hepatitis C health care services.

Finally, the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program provides leadership and coordination in the prevention and control of tuberculosis in collaboration with partners at the regional, provincial/territorial, national, and international levels. Key activities include development of a Canadian Strategy for Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, funding and coordination of the advisory Canadian Tuberculosis Committee, TB surveillance reports, and TB drug resistance reports. In addition, it co-produces the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards, in conjunction with the Canadian Lung Association/Canadian Thoracic Society, coordinates assessment for international airline passengers in contact with a TB case during flight, sponsors targeted evaluations of TB prevention and control activities, provides policy and program advice as well as training to other government departments, and supports the STOP TB initiative to control TB in developing countries.

Environmental Issues
The Public Health Agency of Canada provides capacity for the surveillance of water-borne diseases, and the investigation of infectious disease impacts linked to the climate change. Specific focus is given to developing national water-borne disease surveillance capacity and providing leadership in the investigation of water-borne disease risks in collaboration with other federal departments and agencies, Provincial and Territorial Health Authorities, academia and other NGO's. Activities also include development of assessments of climate change associated infectious disease risks and the development of network environments to facilitate support and coordination of surveillance and research in this critical area.

Health Care Acquired Infections Program
This program's mission is to prevent, reduce and contain the risk of acquiring health-care associated infections in people who encounter, use or work in the Canadian public health and health care systems. It fosters and engages in partnerships and networks to perform public health activities such as surveillance, risk analysis, policy analysis, and targeted research and dissemination of various communication products. The current priorities are to enhance the Canadian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance Program (CNISP) and the Infection Control Guideline Series.

CNISP analyzes surveillance data on healthcare associated (nosocomial) infections submitted by 50 participating hospitals in nine provinces. These hospitals represent 90 per cent of the major Canadian teaching hospitals. While the data does not include the rates of nosocomial infections in every hospital in Canada, it does provide evidence-based data that can be used to establish benchmarks, identify trends and to develop national guidelines to help reduce the transmission of these infections.

The Public Health Agency of Canada's (PHAC) Infection Control Guideline Series fosters the development of local, provincial/territorial and federal policy on the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections in patients, families, volunteers and health care workers in acute and non-acute health care facilities and clinics. PHAC has produced over 17 sets of infection control guidelines. The major guidelines for the prevention and control of hospital-acquired infections are continuously updated and include a fundamental document entitled "Routine Practices and Additional Precautions for Preventing the Transmission of Infection in Health Care".

Hepatitis C Prevention, Support and Research Program
The Hepatitis C Prevention, Support and Research Section designs, develops, implements and supports projects that contribute to the prevention of hepatitis C infection; supports people infected with or affected by the disease; and increases public awareness about hepatitis C. In addition, the Community Acquired Infections Division provides the focal point for ensuring a coordinated and integrated federal public health response to hepatitis C.

HIV/AIDS Policy, Coordination and Programs Division
The HIV/AIDS Policy, Coordination and Programs Division serves as the focal point for the Government of Canada's Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada (FI). The Division provides national expertise on key activities under the FI such as: accountability and evaluation, program development and evidenced-based interventions, external and government relations, vulnerable populations, and knowledge and awareness.

Pandemic Preparedness
The Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infections Diseases is also responsible for pandemic influenza preparedness, which aims to reduce morbidity and mortality, and mitigate potential social and economic disruption in an influenza pandemic; as well as support large-scale improvements to the Canadian public health system. Activities include the advancement of the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector, maintaining domestic pandemic vaccine production capacity, supporting the production and testing of a prototype pandemic vaccine, establishing an adequate reserve of antiviral medication, monitoring, detecting and reporting unusual respiratory illnesses, strengthening collaboration with P/Ts and other national governments, overseeing pandemic influenza research activities, providing technical support and expertise on human health issues related to avian influenza and partnering with national and international organizations to strengthen surveillance, laboratory capacity, emergency preparedness and communications.

Infectious Diseases
Surveillance for and research on the epidemiology of infectious diseases directed at identification and quantification of risks, assessment of proposed prevention strategies and evaluation of existing surveillance, prevention and control activities. Coordination of a network of scientific experts, public health officials and advisory committees / working groups to develop guidelines / recommendations for selected topics and to investigate diseases of provincial and/or national importance. Furthermore, the Blood Borne Pathogens Division is involved in blood safety and xenotransplantation issues pertaining to transmission of infectious, chronic and degenerative diseases.

Microbiology
The National Microbiology Laboratory provides expert microbiological reference testing, surveillance and outbreak investigation support to the public health network in Canada. The National Microbiology Laboratory is a key element in Canada's preparedness for biologic terrorism and other infectious diseases emergencies. In addition, the National Microbiology Laboratory also provides funding to the National Centre for Parasitology and the National Centre for Streptococcus and supports the National Mycology Network.

National HIV and Retrovirology Laboratories
The Public Health Agency of Canada's National HIV and Retrovirology Laboratories (NHRL) provide a comprehensive range of laboratory science services and expertise related to HIV and emerging retroviruses. Organizations that use these services include laboratories associated with provincial ministries of health, hospital and blood-screening laboratories, and HIV laboratories abroad. NHRL provides HIV and HTL (Human T-cell Leukaemia Virus I/II) serology and molecular reference services in support of testing programs conducted by provincial ministries of health and the Canadian Blood Services. NHRL's core activities: reference services; surveillance outbreak investigation; quality assurance; research; and international activities. NHRL is comprised of the following laboratories: the National Laboratory for HIV Reference Services; the national Laboratory for HIV Genetics; the National Laboratory for HIV Immunology; and the Viral Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology Unit.

Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Program
In concert with health, education and other inter-sectoral partners, the Sexual Health and STI Section promotes the physical and psychosocial well being of Canadians through sexual health promotion activities. Such activities include the development of national guidelines; publication of national consensus statements and policy recommendations; development of targeted research studies; and, coordination of the dissemination and exchange of information. The Section supports efforts to prevent and control sexually transmitted infections and their complications, including cancer and infertility.

Surveillance and Epidemiology Program
The Surveillance and Epidemiology Section of the Community Acquired Infections Division is responsible for routine and enhanced STI and community-acquired Hepatitis C surveillance, epidemiology and research. It provides data, analysis and interpretation to inform and support prevention, policy and programming activities related to STIs and community-acquired Hepatitis C. This section contributes to broader initiatives within the Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control for enhanced surveillance of populations vulnerable to sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infections, and we collaborate with provincial and territorial representatives, international agencies and other partners to improve behavioural and disease surveillance for public health action.

Surveillance for Food-borne and Enteric Infections
The Public Health Agency of Canada provides enhanced capacity to conduct surveillance (data collection, analysis, interpretation, dissemination) of enteric and food-borne diseases. This work includes maintaining and developing a national food safety surveillance system and providing national leadership to improve enteric disease surveillance. The work also provides guidance and coordination for Provincial Health Authorities to conduct enteric disease surveillance; coordinates surveillance activities with federal and international partner organizations; and identifies potential outbreaks and emerging trends affecting the health and safety of Canadians.

Targeted Population Studies for Food-borne and Water-borne Infections
The Public Health Agency of Canada provides national leadership for epidemiological investigations and population-based surveillance (data collection, analysis, interpretation, dissemination) of food- and water-borne diseases. This work provides information and guidance to food and water policy makers; facilitates and coordinates risk identification activities with international, federal, provincial and local partner organizations; conducts, supports and coordinates targeted research in critical areas; and identifies emerging threats to the health and safety of Canadians.

Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program
The Division's Tuberculosis (TB) Prevention and Control Section provides leadership and coordination in policy and program initiatives. In collaboration with partners at various levels (regional, provincial/territorial, national and international) key activities of the Section include: the dissemination of valuable surveillance and epidemiology information on TB cases; TB drug resistance and TB infection and disease in persons living and working in the Canadian federal correctional facilities. In addition, the section co-publishes the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards for prevention and treatment, provides technical assistance (upon request) to provinces and territories to help prevent and control outbreaks, works with others in targeted research projects, and sponsors the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch (HPCDP) is responsible for developing policies and programs that enhance and strengthen The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)'s strategic objectives of health promotion and chronic disease prevention.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch (HPCDP) works with stakeholders at all levels to: provide national and international leadership in health promotion, chronic disease prevention and control; coordinate the surveillance of chronic diseases and their risk factors and early disease detection; create and evaluate/measure programs addressing common risk factors and specialized issues focusing on special populations (i.e. seniors, children); educate the public and professionals; and manage grants and contributions.

Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CCDPC)
Chronic diseases are among the most common, preventable and costly health problems facing Canadians. Working in cooperation with regional, provincial/territorial, national and international governments and stakeholders (including non-governmental organizations), the Centre provides national population health assessment and surveillance in relation to chronic diseases. It also provides and supports leadership and expertise in the development and implementation of pan-Canadian chronic disease prevention, control and management strategies through surveillance, knowledge development and exchange, community-based programming, policy development and coordination, and monitoring and evaluation. The Centre focuses on engaging and supporting national stakeholders in public health work; supporting population health assessment, surveillance, and knowledge-based decisions and interventions that promote health; preventing chronic disease by reducing risks; and improving early detection and management of chronic disease, particularly diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases.

Part of the Centre's focus on stakeholder engagement includes involvement in the F/P/T Pan-Canadian Public Health Network through the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention and Control Expert Group which fosters greater collaboration and alignment on chronic disease/injury issues of mutual interest across governments.

Centre for Health Promotion (CHP)
Using a life stages approach, CHP is responsible for implementing policies and programs that enhance the conditions within which healthy development takes place. Through action founded on the principles of population and public health, CHP seeks to address the determinants of health and facilitate successful movement through the life stages. The Centre acts through programs addressing healthy child and adolescent development, healthy communities, families, including family violence, aging, physical health and injury prevention, work with the voluntary sector, and public information and education. Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division: The goal of the Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division is to provide excellence in surveillance and research on a national and international level on injury and maltreatment and maternal and infant health, so that our efforts, in partnership with others, significantly improve the health and well-being of Canadians.

The Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division supports the efforts of all concerned with health in pregnancy and the health and well-being of infants, children and youth through a commitment to excellence in surveillance and research.

The Strategic Initiatives and Innovations Directorate (SIID)
The Strategic Initiatives and Innovations Directorate are mandated to provide leadership and expertise to address national and global social determinants of health, including economic and environmental determinants that impact the health of Canadians. The Directorate is also responsible for assessing trends and developing innovative options to improve health status. This includes the development of policy approaches and managing complex strategic issues requiring a determinants-based approach.

Transfer Payment Services and Accountability Division (TPSAD)
This division provides leadership, advice, coordination, and oversight to The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on issues related to performance measurement, evaluation, and grants and contributions management. The division also provides administrative services for the Population Health fund as well as a number of other grants and contribution funding programs. See funding program descriptions in the Information Holdings Program Records section of Info Source.

World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Chronic Disease Policy (WHOCC)
The WHOCC supports chronic disease policy development and implementation activities in Canada and with other WHO Member countries, more specifically in the Americas and Europe. The WHO Collaborating Centre is an internationally-recognized centre of expertise in chronic disease policy development and implementation and has links with a variety of international organizations and networks. The WHO Collaborating Centre provides strategic leadership in developing integrated policies for the prevention and control of chronic diseases in Canada, in partnership with provinces and NGOs, and also in advancing the global chronic disease prevention agenda in collaboration with the WHO. The WHO Collaborating Centre co-leads with the Pan American Health Organization the development of an observatory of chronic disease policy. Also supports the WHO Network of Countries (CINDI - Countrywide Integrated Non Communicable Disease Intervention and CARMEN - Conjunto de Acciones para la Reducción Multifactorial de las Enfermedades No-transmisibles) programs in chronic disease policy and program development, analysis, implementation and dissemination.