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Public Health Agency of Canada

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Background

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), as part of the federal health portfolio, has a mission to promote and protect the health of Canadians through leadership, partnership, innovation and action in public health. To assist Canadians in moving towards its vision of healthy Canadians and communities in a healthier world, the Agency is mandated to work in collaboration with its partners, to mobilize pan-Canadian action in preventing disease and injury, and to promote and protect national and international public health.

Responsibilities

The Agency achieves its objectives through leadership and partnership. It consults with provincial and territorial governments in the area of public health, fosters cooperation in that field with foreign governments and international organizations and collaborates with provincial and territorial governments to coordinate federal policies and programs.

Through work with provinces and territories, the Agency contributes to federal efforts to identify and reduce public health risk factors and to support national readiness for public health threats.

Through work with provinces and territories, the Agency translates public health skills and knowledge into action across the public health spectrum, including promoting health, preventing infectious and chronic disease, and preparing for health-related emergencies.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is made up of three Branches, including two Laboratories, and has more than 2,400 staff contributing to the achievement of the Agency's mission. In addition to the National Capital Region, PHAC has a presence in the Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario and Nunavut, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Alberta and Northwest Territories, and British Columbia and Yukon Regions.

PHAC's main areas of focus are: prevention of disease and injury and the promotion of health; federal leadership and accountability in managing public health emergencies; sharing Canada's expertise with the rest of the world, and applying international research and knowledge to Canada's public health programs; strengthening intergovernmental collaboration on public health and facilitating national approaches to public health policy and planning; and advancing Aboriginal public health issues along with Health Canada.

Legislation

Department of Health Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. H-3.2
Emergency Preparedness Act, R.S., 1985, c.6 (4th Supp.)
Financial Administration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F‑11
Human Pathogens Importation Regulations, SOR/94‑558
Public Health Agency of Canada Act, 2006,c. 5
Quarantine Act, S.C. 2005, c.20
Quarantine Regulations, C.R.C., c.1368
Queen Elizabeth II Canadian Research Fund Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. Q-1

Organization

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.

Information Holdings

Institution-Specific Classes of Records

Aboriginal Head Start Initiative Urban and Northern Communities Program (AHSUNC)
Description: Aboriginal Head Start Initiative (AHSUrban) and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) is an early intervention strategy program which addresses the needs of young Aboriginal children, ages 0‑6, living in urban centres and large northern communities. Projects are locally controlled and administered by Aboriginal non‑profit organizations with programs designed to meet the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, health and other physical needs of the child Aboriginal children.
Document Types: Aboriginal children; culture and language; early childhood education; early childhood development; health promotion; nutrition; social support programs; parental involvement.
Record Number: PHAC 008 430

Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Conditions
Description: Coordination of a national approach to the surveillance, prevention and effective management of arthritis and other rheumatic conditions in Canada. An external expert advisory group has been established to advise The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on the planning, development, use, and evaluation of high quality, timely surveillance information designed to guide and evaluate decisions about arthritis and other rheumatic conditions policies, programs, services, education and research. Membership includes academia, health professional organizations, NGOs, provincial/territorial governments, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Statistics Canada. Surveillance reports can be accessed via the PHAC website.
Document Types: Arthritis; rheumatic conditions; health determinants; risk factors; quality of life; diagnosis; disease management.
Record Number: PHAC 008 500

Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division
Description: 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.
Document Types: Infection Control Guideline Program; transfusion-transmitted injuries and infections; transplantation of tissues and organs; blood-borne hepatitis (B and C).
Record Number: PHAC 008 401

Breast Cancer
Description: The Canadian Breast Cancer Initiative (CBCI) is a departmentally-led initiative that involves working in partnership with key stakeholders from the provincial and territorial governments, health professionals, care providers, associations, researchers, educators, consumers and support groups, the private sector, and women affected by breast cancer. The Initiative carries out its mandate through the following linked components: the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative; Prevention, Early Detection and Quality Screening; Surveillance and Monitoring; Enhancing Quality Approaches to Diagnosis, Treatment and Care; Community Capacity Building; and Evaluation and Coordination. The objectives of the CBCI are to: reduce the incidence of breast cancer; reduce mortality as a result of breast cancer; and improve the quality of life of those affected by breast cancer and their support networks.
Document Types: Breast cancer (prevention; early detection and screening; community capacity building, surveillance and monitoring activities).Breast cancer (prevention; screening; early detection; quality management; treatment and care; support; advocacy).
Record Number: PHAC 008 260

Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP)
Description: Canada's The Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) is a program which funds community-based coalitions and agencies to establish, deliver or enhance services for at‑risk pregnant women in order to improve birth outcomes. CPNP is targeted at pregnant women most likely to have unhealthy babies because of challenging circumstances that put their health and nutrition and the health of their infants at risk. CPNP aims to improve maternal and infant health; reduce unhealthy birth weights; promote and support breastfeeding; build partnerships; and strengthen community supports for women.
Document Types: Prenatal Program evaluation; prenatal health; prenatal nutrition; prenatal care; lifestyle counselling; breastfeeding.
Record Number: PHAC 008 435

Canadian Breast Cancer Screening Database (CBCSD)
Description: The CBCSD is a national breast screening surveillance system designed to facilitate monitoring and evaluation of organized screening programs in Canada. Established in 1993, it contains screening information from all provinces and the Northwest Territories. In addition to demographic data (such as age, ethnicity, place of residence) and risk-factor profile data (such as parity, age at 1st pregnancy, gravidity, family cancer history) for each consenting client, the database records details pertaining to all screening episodes occurring within the programs. Diagnostic databases and provincial cancer registries are linked to the CBCSD to provide diagnostic outcome data for abnormal screen (including diagnostic procedures, cancer diagnosis and stage of disease). The CBCSD is a national breast screening surveillance system designed to facilitate monitoring and evaluation of organized screening programs across Canada. Established in 1993, it is operated and maintained by the Chronic Disease Management and Control Division, and Chronic Disease Surveillance Divisions in the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control. In addition to demographic data (such as age, ethnicity, place of residence) and risk‑factor profile data (such as parity, gravidity, family cancer history) for each consenting client, the database records details pertaining to all screening episodes occurring within the programs. Diagnostic databases and provincial cancer registries are linked to the CBCSD to provide diagnostic outcome data for abnormal screens.
Document Types: Breast screening surveillance.
Record Number: PHAC 008 261

Canadian Field Epidemiology Program (CFEP)
Description: CFEP (formerly known as the Field Epidemiology Training Program or FETP) is Canada's national disease detective service and training program. CFEP rapidly mobilizes staff to the field for outbreak response at the request of local, provincial, territorial, federal and occasionally international organizations, to respond to public health emergencies requiring epidemiologic assistance, including outbreak investigations and field investigations assessing risk factors, etiologies and effectiveness of control measures for communicable and non-communicable diseases, environmental health, chronic disease and natural disasters. CFEP coordinates such responses with other the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Federal Department, provincial, territorial, local and international public health authorities as appropriate. Field Epidemiologists also evaluate public health events under surveillance undertaken at all levels of public health jurisdiction, to assess the capacity to translate data into public health action. CFEP is part of an international network of training programs in epidemiology and public health interventions. CFEP builds public health capacity by offering its training modules to public health professionals at all levels of public health practice in Canada and internationally. CFEP training modules include: advanced epidemiology and statistics as they relate to applied epidemiology (outbreak investigation, surveillance), practical field studies, professional communication, etc.
Document Types: outbreak response, epidemiology, infectious diseases, chronic diseases, environmental health, capacity building, training, surveillance,
Record Number: PHAC 008 108

Canadian Integrated Public Health Surveillance (CIPHS / iPHIS)
Description: CIPHS brings together a strategic alliance of public health and information technology professionals working collaboratively to build an integrated suite of computer and database tools specifically for use by Canadian public health professionals. These custom tools are being designed to support the systematic collection and collation of health surveillance data as a by-product of the normal work of public health professionals. The data will be used to support evidence-based public health decisions.
Document Types: Contracts, memoranda of understanding, guidelines, policies, reports.
Record Number: PHAC 008 700

Canadian Public Health Service (CPHS)
Description: The mandate of the CPHS program is to enhance public health capacity and encourage inter-agency collaboration in public health across Canada. The program addresses these goals through the placement of full-time Federal Public Health Officers (PHOs) in jurisdictions or organisations across the country with responsibilities in public health. Placement sites for PHOs are determined through periodic requests for proposals which include specific information on the tasks to be carried out and the qualifications required. As a result, PHOs may be active in one or more of several public health activities, ranging from routine surveillance and epidemiology, public health policy development, environmental health issues, infection control, public health teaching activities or other duties as outlined by the placement site. A key feature of this program is the training support that is provided, particularly in the area of pandemic preparedness, and rotational field assignments are encouraged to provide a broad public health experience to the PHOs.
Document Types: Infectious diseases; chronic diseases; surveillance; training; teaching; public health policy; surveillance; pandemic preparedness.
Record Number: PHAC 008 700

Cancer
Description: The Agency's cancer program includes surveillance, risk assessment and analysis, screening, early detection and monitoring and community based programming. Public health activities in cancer control address issues facing Canadians. The Agency's cancer program works to further develop knowledge on cancer prevention and control through its work on the determinants of cancer (risk factors); their impacts and trends as well as supporting access and use of best practice interventions.
Document Types: Cancer; air quality; climate change and health; contaminated sites; environmental contaminants noise; radiation; water quality; legislation and guidelines.
Record Number: PHAC 008 100

Cardiovascular Disease
Description: The Chronic Disease Prevention Division of the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control has the lead role for cardiovascular disease. This includes the overall coordination for the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases, as well as limited surveillance and data interpretation (in cooperation with the Chronic Disease Surveillance Division as well as the Chronic Disease Evidence & Risk Assessment Division). The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was integrally involved in a number of initiatives, including The Canadian Heart Health Initiative (CHHI) and the Cardiovascular Action Plan. PHAC helped to establish a coalition for the prevention and control of hypertension with a focus on high blood pressure as part of an integrated screening approach with the development of comprehensive screening policies. The division was also a partner in the development of The Growing Burden of Heart Disease and Stroke in Canada 2003. The report examines the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors - smoking, physical inactivity, being overweight, high blood pressure and diabetes - and also makes policy recommendations on how to address the growing burden presented by heard disease and stroke. PHAC will also publish a new report, Cardiovascular Disease in Canada in the spring 2008. The Agency is also funding the development of a Canadian Heart Health Strategy and Action Plan that will be presented to the Minister of Health in the fall, 2008.
Document Types: Cholesterol; high blood pressure; diabetes; tobacco use; physical inactivity; obesity; modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease; surveillance.
Record Number: PHAC 008 265

Centres of Excellence for Children's Well‑being
Description: The Centres of Excellence for Children's Well‑being program was created with a mandate to improve Canadians' understanding of, and responsiveness to, the physical and mental health needs of children and the critical factors for healthy child development. Each of the four centres focuses on a different issue associated with child and youth well‑being: child welfare; early childhood development; special needs; and youth engagement. Each centre is responsible for: collecting and analysing data, conducting original research, providing policy advice, disseminating information, and developing networks of individuals and groups who are working on the same issue.
Document Types: Children; early child development; health; youth engagement; disabilities; special needs; child welfare; child and youth centred communities; policy issues, research.
Record Number: PHAC 008 338

Cervical Cancer
Description: The Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Network (CCPCN) is an expert working group consisting of federal, provincial, territorial and non-governmental representatives. The goal of the CCPCN is to facilitate the continued reduction in the incidence, morbidity and mortality of cervical cancer in Canada by providing a platform for discussion and debate regarding current and future priorities of cervical cancer prevention and control in Canada; maintaining a Pan-Canadian network that collaboratively addresses issues concerning cervical cancer prevention and control; fostering partnerships and opportunities for collaboration, learn from and promote best practices among sectors and across jurisdictions; and, communicating consistent messages on key issues to stakeholders, including policy and decision makers. The CCPCN is lead by a Steering Committee which is made up of representatives from provincial and territorial screening programs, infectious disease departments, professional medical related associations, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. The Cervical Cancer Prevention Network (CCPN) is a network of federal, provincial, territorial and non‑governmental representatives which has been established to foster the development of provincially based organized quality screening programs in Canada and the development and use of information systems to enable monitoring and evaluation of the programs through the activities of three working groups: the Quality Management Working Group, the Recruitment Working Group, the Information Systems Working Group.
Document Types: Cervical cancer (prevention; screening, early detection).
Record Number: PHAC 008 333

Chronic Disease Knowledge Development, Exchange and Transfer
Description: This Program focuses on the development of various chronic disease information products and tools, synthesizing synthesis and packaging of knowledge for end-users, that are understandable and usable, as well as undertaking activities to facilitate dissemination, uptake and implementation of knowledge to end-users. Types of activities include risk assessment studies, economic analysis, evaluations, environmental scans, needs assessments, literature and structured reviews, meetings, forums, and collaborative exchange projects. Key to this process are ongoing consultations exchange efforts with provinces and territories, non-government and professional organizations, research agencies and other key organizations relevant to chronic disease and public health to facilitate evidence-based practice and practice-based learning.
Document Types: Chronic diseases (needs assessment; survey; evaluation).
Record Number: PHAC 008 501

Chronic Disease Prevention
Description: The Chronic Disease Prevention Division engages a number of chronic disease stakeholder organizations such as the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada a member of the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance, an alliance of non-governmental organizations and government agencies, in working towards a shared a common vision for an organized, coordinated system of chronic disease prevention for Canada. At the federal/provincial/territorial government level, the Division collaborates with F/P/T stakeholders through expert groups such as the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention and Control Expert Group of the Public Health Network. The division also participates as a member of the Primary Prevention Action Group of the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control. This group's mandate is to promote the creation of a national / provincial / territorial and local community primary prevention system to address population-based risk factors for cancer and other chronic diseases by collaborating with chronic disease constituencies. The division also leads on an intra‑departmental working group on nutrition, physical activity and healthy weights for the prevention of chronic disease that seeks to maximize collaborative efforts in the areas of chronic disease prevention.
Document Types: Chronic diseases (prevention; risk factors; needs assessment); community empowerment.
Record Number: PHAC 008 295

Chronic Disease Risk Assessment
Description: The Chronic Disease Risk Assessment program (a component of Knowledge, Development and Exchange) program focuses on identifying, generating, collecting, evaluating, synthesizing, translating and sharing the evidence on established and emerging risk factors, protective factors and determinants for chronic disease, as well as their burden in the Canada population (including special and vulnerable populations). The program contributes to the information-base for the development of policies, programs and strategies aimed at preventing promoting healthy lifestyles, prevention and early detection of chronic diseases and reducing their burden. Studies of key chronic diseases are conducted using various primary and secondary data sources. The program also conducts systematic reviews and or meta-analyses of key risk factors when needed to obtain best agreed upon measures of risks. An inventory of evidence on chronic disease risk factors is being developed for use by practitioners and policy makers.
Document Types: Chronic disease; cancer; cardiovascular diseases; diabetes; mental illness; respiratory disease; arthritis.
Record Number: PHAC 008 502

Chronic Respiratory Diseases
Description: Coordination of a national approach to the prevention and effective management of chronic respiratory disease in Canada. An external expert surveillance advisory group has been established to advise the Public Health Agency of Canada on the planning, development, use, and evaluation of high quality, timely surveillance information designed to guide and evaluate decisions about chronic respiratory disease policies, programs, services, education and research. Membership includes academia, health professional organizations, NGOs, provincial/territorial governments, local/regional public health, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Statistics Canada. Surveillance reports can be accessed via the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) website. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has been working with a wide range of stakeholders to develop a National Lung Health Framework. Its coordinated approach to the prevention and management of respiratory diseases will have a significant positive impact on the state of lung health in Canada. The Life and Breath: Respiratory Disease in Canada report, released in November 2007, was prepared in collaboration with the Lung Association, Health Canada, Statistics Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and other expert advisors led by the Public Health Agency of Canada. It includes detailed information on the prevalence of lung diseases, information about those who are affected by these diseases and data on hospitalizations and deaths. Chapters on tobacco and air quality describe how these risk factors impact on lung health, their prevalence and who is at risk.
Document Types: Asthma; Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disorder (CPOD); respiratory disease; disease prevention and management.
Record Number: PHAC 008 317

Community Acquired Infections
Description: 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.
Document Types: sexually transmitted infections (Chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), Human Papillomavirus (HPV), sexual health promotion, hepatitis C, prevention, detection, tuberculosis; TB drug resistance and infection; Canadian Tuberculosis Standards; Canadian Tuberculosis Committee, guidelines, research, surveillance.
Record Number: PHAC 008 707

Foodborne, Waterborne and Zoonotic Infections
Description: This division implements an enhanced regionally-based capacity to conduct surveillance (data collection, analysis, interpretation, dissemination) and investigation of (a) food and waterborne diseases and (b) zoonotic diseases (diseases in domestic and wild animals' relevant to human health). This work includes maintaining and developing a national food and water safety surveillance system and providing national leadership to improve enteric disease surveillance. The division also investigates and coordinates investigations of food borne and waterborne disease outbreaks across Canada and provides guidance and direction, as requested, by the Provincial Health Authorities; facilitates and coordinates risk analysis and risk management 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.
Document Types: Drinking Water, recreational water, climate change, risk factors, vulnerability assessment, acute gastrointestinal illness, Salmonella, E. coli, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, norovirus.
Record Number: PHAC 008 402

Community Action Program for Children
Description: The Community Action Program for Children (CAPC) is a targeted program which funds community-based coalitions and agencies to establish and deliver culturally appropriate prevention and early intervention programs to promote the health and social development of children, ages 0 to 6, and their families living in conditions of risk. The program recognizes that communities have the ability to identify and respond to the needs of children and families and places a strong emphasis on partnerships, community capacity building, and other health promotion strategies influencing the broader determinants of health.
Document Types: Program evaluation; parent education and support; child injury prevention; child development; child health; prevention of abuse and neglect.
Record Number: PHAC 008 337

Community Action Program for Children (CAPC)/Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) National Projects Fund
Description: The purpose of the fund is to finance initiatives that will support the objectives of CAPC/CPNP programs and directly benefit CAPC and CPNP projects across Canada. The National Projects Fund will allow national, regional or local organizations to undertake specific, short-term initiatives in support of activities that generate knowledge and action about children, families and the role of the community in supporting families.
Document Types: Prenatal nutrition; children; family supports; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS); Francophone projects outside Quebec. Project results include evidence-based tools, resources and knowledge translation activities intended for CAPC/CPNP projects and their partners across Canada. Funded projects aim to address health disparities affecting children, pregnant women and their infants and families. Teen pregnancy; attachment; family violence; breastfeeding; food security; father involvement; parenting.
Record Number: PHAC 008 436

Data Coordination and Access Program
Description: The Data Coordination and Access Program (DCAP) of the Office of Public Health Practice (OPHP) acquires and manages centralized data holdings which are used by analysts across the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as well as Health Canada via the Data Extraction and Analysis application (DEXA). DCAP operates as a data broker on behalf of PHAC in the development of data sources and in the standardized, protected acquisition of data related to health. DCAP coordinates data requirements through PHAC's Health Surveillance Coordination Committee (HSCC) and provides a liaison function with Statistics Canada, CIHI and other data providers to represent the Agency's requirements and negotiate data sharing agreements. Our major clients are epidemiologists and analysts within PHAC and Health Canada who need both micro-level and summarized data to perform surveillance, research and policy development.
Document Types: Contracts, memoranda of understanding, guidelines, policies, reports.
Record Number: PHAC 008 702

Demonstration Projects for Chronic Disease Prevention
Description: Through these collaborative projects with P/Ts, innovative programs and policies occurring across the country in the area of chronic disease prevention are rigorously assessed and their impacts and results are shared nationally. This program also develops a set of common tools, methodologies, and approaches for facilitating evidence-based practice, common evaluations, and knowledge exchange to maximize the impact and uptake of these innovations nationally. The Demonstration Projects program provides an opportunity to support and rigorously assess the implementation of strategies for integrated chronic disease prevention and control efforts through the application of standard scientific and evaluation assessment approaches. It spans the key functions of promotion, prevention, early detection and management. It is intended to enhance our understanding of best methods for the implementation of health promotion and chronic disease prevention and control programs identified as, but not limited to, best practices. Mainly aimed at provincial and territorial initiatives, a series of demonstration sites will be supported across the country. Each site will be required to set targets and then scientifically evaluate their progress towards their achievement. Through the knowledge that is developed over time and through other components of chronic disease prevention and control strategies, such as surveillance and community programming, new sites will build on existing systems, infrastructure and program successes.
Document Types: Chronic disease strategies; diabetes; cardiovascular disease; cancer; key risk factors.
Record Number: PHAC 008 503

Diabetes
Description: Building on the foundation of the first six years of the Canadian Diabetes Strategy (CDS), the current focus is directed towards minimizing the risk of developing diabetes among high risk groups, early detection and screening for Type 2 diabetes, and well as the prevention of the complications of Types 1 and 2 diabetes. High risk populations may include those individuals who: are obese or overweight; have pre-diabetes; are greater than 40 years of age and have high blood pressure and/or high levels of cholesterol; have a family history of diabetes; are of certain ethnic population ns (such as Hispanic, African, Asian or South Asian). The CDS is the federal government's contribution toward a national diabetes strategy. It is informed by the strategic framework which was developed by federal, provincial and territorial experts, as well as stakeholders. The CDS has five programmatic elements. National Diabetes Surveillance System - provides surveillance information about diabetes at provincial, territorial and national levels. Knowledge Development and Exchange for Diabetes Prevention and Management – provides research and evidence to understand the causes of diabetes, as well as effective prevention and management strategies. Diabetes Community-Based Promotion and Programming – supports community projects that address diabetes at prevention, detection and/or management. Diabetes Public Information – provides social marketing messages on diabetes. Diabetes Coordination - supports and promotes national collaboration and coordination within government and its partners.
Document Types: National Diabetes Surveillance System; Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative; Canadian Diabetes Strategy; Aboriginal diabetes; type 2 diabetes; blindness; nutrition; obesity and physical activity.
Record Number: PHAC 008 708

The Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
Description: The program is responsible for leading the CDS. Surveillance reports can be accessed via the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) website. The Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CCDPC) is responsible for delivering three of the four components of the Canadian Diabetes Strategy (CDS). The four components are: Prevention and Promotion; National Coordination; National Diabetes Surveillance System; and the Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative B, the latter of which is under the purview of the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) of Health Canada. The major goals of the Canadian Diabetes Strategy are to address the health concerns of diabetes for the entire Canadian population, with prevention and promotion as major elements; working in partnership to increase awareness and education of diabetes, its complications and major risk factors; share best practices; coordinate and lead diabetes efforts nationally; and assist community based prevention projects. Building on the foundation of the first six years of the CDS, a new direction for the enhanced CDS will be to target populations who are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The focus will be on diabetes prevention through integrated action on diabetes and its risk factors, and supporting platforms for the early detection and management of the disease. This new approach will focus on individuals who have pre-diabetes; are overweight or obese; are over age 40; have high blood pressure and/or high blood cholesterol; have a family history of diabetes; and, are of certain high-risk ethnic populations.
Document Types: National Diabetes Surveillance System; Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative; Canadian Diabetes Strategy; Aboriginal diabetes; type 2 diabetes; blindness; nutrition; obesity and physical activity.
Record Number: PHAC 008 331

Division of Aging and Seniors
Description: Serves as the centre of expertise and focal point for information in areas pertaining to healthy aging and seniors. It promotes meaningful participation of seniors in federal decisions and activities that affect them. Activities include: providing advice and supporting policy development; conducting and supporting research and education activities; encouraging innovative means of improving the health of seniors in situations of risk and in preventing situations of risk from developing; developing information and providing operational support to the National Advisory Council education resources on Aging seniors' health issues; and carrying liaison and information services with various stakeholders.
Document Types: Aging; seniors; National Advisory Council on Aging emergency preparedness; age-friendly communities; injury prevention; mental health; senior's health.
Record Number: PHAC 008 259

Division of Childhood and Adolescence
Description: The division serves as a centre of expertise, leadership and coordination within the federal government and the Public Health Agency of Canada for issues, activities and programs concerning children and youth. The division is a focal point for policy development, research and strategic analysis of trends regarding the broad determinants of health for children and youth in Canada.
Document Types: Children; adolescents; healthy pregnancy; healthy child development; early child development; children's rights; parenting.
Record Number: PHAC 008 339

Early Child Development
Description: The Government of Canada increased provides transfers to the provinces and territories to build on existing services and supports that promote support their investments in early childhood development. Programs and services, Provincial and territorial governments have agreed to use this increased funding to: promote healthy pregnancy, birth and infancy; improve parenting and family supports; strengthen early childhood development, learning and care; and strengthen community supports. All governments agreed to report publicly on their progress, and on how children are faring, which will allow governments, and Canadians, to track progress in improving the well‑being of Canada's young children. Governments also report on their investments and progress in enhancing federal programs and services through activity and expenditure reports. Governments have also agreed to work together, where appropriate, on research and knowledge on Early Childhood Development (ECD) related to early childhood development and to share information on effective practices to that improve child outcomes. Information on the expenditures of federal departments and agencies related to ECD.
Document Types: Early childhood development; child welfare; indicators; health; inter‑governmental issues; social policy; healthy pregnancy; maternity care; parenting; breastfeeding.
Record Number: PHAC 008 336

Economic Modelling & Analysis
Description: The Economic Modelling and Analysis Program undertakes activities aimed at estimating and describing the economic burden of chronic diseases, the economic impact and cost benefit of interventions aimed at reducing their burden. Ongoing projects focus on developing methodologies for and implementing analysis and modelling techniques for chronic diseases and their complications in a Canadian context that can be used for designing and evaluating intervention strategies, and their cost-effectiveness. These analyses are based on various provincial, national and international data sources on health status and health services for chronic disease. These activities will provide economic information needed by policy makers, health administrators and other key stakeholders for decision-making around chronic disease and their interventions.
Document Types: Economic modelling and analysis; diabetes; cardiovascular disease; cancer; prevention; early detection; interventions.
Record Number: PHAC 008 504

Enhanced Surveillance for Chronic Disease
Description: Surveillance is a key knowledge tool for decision-makers to understand what is going on in the population. It provides on-going timely information on the health of the population, the nature and scope of health problems, and the factors that need to be addressed in the population to improve health. These factors include health behaviors, risk conditions, use of health services, environmental and community factors that influence health. Surveillance information on these factors helps policy makers decide what policies, programs and services are needed to improve health, and to evaluate progress on health goals and targets. The Enhanced Surveillance Component works with partners to enhance the timeliness, quality and use of surveillance information in decision-making about policy, program and services to promote healthy living, risk factor reduction, and chronic disease detection and management. Its goals are to enhance the analysis, interpretation and use of existing data sources for surveillance; expand data sources for surveillance; and coordinate, plan and evaluate surveillance activities. Chronic disease surveillance reports are published periodically and can be found on the PHAC Website.
Document Types: Chronic disease surveillance; sentinel surveillance; primary care; health administrative database; chronic disease surveys; local/regional risk factor surveillance; chronic disease risk factors.
Record Number: PHAC 008 703

Foetal Alcohol Syndrome / Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAS/FAE Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Description: Federal funds have been allocated to enhance FAS/FAE FASD activities related to: public and professional awareness and education; training and capacity development; early identification and diagnosis; coordination; surveillance; and a strategic project fund administered by through the Population Health Fund. The Public Health Agency of Canada, through its national and regional offices, works in collaboration with Provincial/ Territorial governments, a National Advisory Committee, a National First Nations and Inuit CPNP/FAS/E Steering Committee Health Branch of Health Canada, and other federal departments on various FAS/FAE FASD activities.
Document Types: Healthy pregnancy; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAS/FAE). Spectrum Disorder (FASD); Screening; Diagnosis; Disabilities.
Record Number: PHAC 008 271

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Description: The GIS Infrastructure provides GIS services tailored to the Canadian public health community. Our approach is to work with public health professionals to make available GIS resources and information that support their spatial information needs and continuing education opportunities. The GIS Infrastructure has developed two key tools that are currently being used nationally in the public health community: The Map and Data Exchange (MaDEx) and the Public Health Map Generator (PHMG). MaDEx is a web-based forum that allows for collaboration, networking, and sharing of information and expertise amongst Canadian public health professionals. It is also used to provide data, news and GIS support. The PHMG is an on-line mapping tool developed to meet the needs of public health professionals who do not have GIS expertise or software, but want to quickly map and visualize their own health data.
Document Types: Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Public Health GIS; Map and Data Exchange (MaDEx); Public Health Map Generator (PHMG).
Record Number: PHAC 008 505

Health Promotion
Description: Since the mid-1990s, the Government of Canada has adopted a population health approach to health promotion. Health promotion includes five key strategies: building healthy public policy; creating supportive environments; strengthening community action; developing personal skills; and reorienting health services. Three of these strategies - building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments and reorienting health services - are better addressed from a population health's systematic approach and responding to new evidence on the role played by the broad range of social, economic and environmental determinants in improving overall health.
Document Types: Determinants of health; child health; healthy pregnancy and infancy; injury prevention; mental health; national clearinghouse on family violence physical activity; rural health; seniors' health.
Record Number: PHAC 008 276

Healthy Child Development
Description: The focus is on healthy child development with an emphasis on the determinants of health, including physical, social, economic and mental/emotional health and well‑being, family support, healthy, safe and non‑violent environments, and international treaties and obligations such as children's rights. This includes National Child Day, celebrated November 20th, and the sharing of best practices through international organizations such as the Inter-American Children's Institute. These activities reflect Canada's national commitment to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and its optional protocols, as well as its commitment to supporting and raising awareness of children's rights worldwide.
Document Types: Children's rights; UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; mental health; media literacy; children's environmental health; injury prevention; active living; healthy eating; parent support and education; international treaties dealing with children.
Record Number: PHAC 008 171

Healthy Living
Description: The Healthy Living Unit is responsible for physical activity within the federal portfolio. The Unit provides support to the Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy which includes a target of a 20% increase in the proportion of Canadians who are physically active, eat healthily and are at healthy body weights by 2015. The Healthy Living Unit leads, fosters and supports actions to address the conditions that support healthy eating, physical activity and healthy weights for all Canadians with particular emphasis on sub-populations experiencing health disparities. The Unit works in partnership with: 1) provincial and territorial governments towards achieving the healthy living and physical activity targets set by Ministers; 2) non-government organizations through the Healthy Living Fund, (physical activity and healthy eating), that provides financial assistance to national and regional organizations; federal partners within and outside the health portfolio to foster healthy public policy across the federal system; and international fora, including those in place to advance the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health.
Document Types: Contribution Program; Canada's Physical Activity Guides; guide for older adults; Summer Active; active living at work; active transportation, Stairway to health.
Record Number: PHAC 008 420

Hepatitis C Prevention, Support and Research Program
Description: 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.
Document Types: Hepatitis C (prevention, detection).
Record Number: PHAC 008 507

HIV/AIDS Policy, Coordination and Programs
Description: The HIV/AIDS Policy, Coordination and Programs Division serves as the focal point for the Public Health Agency of Canada 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.
Document Types: HIV/AIDS (prevention, care, treatment, support; government relations).
Record Number: PHAC 008 405

Infectious Diseases
Description: 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.
Document Types: Immunization; food borne; waterborne and enteric diseases; nosocomial and occupations infections; respiratory diseases; blood borne pathogens; xenotransplantation; blood safety.
Record Number: PHAC 008 132

Mental Health Promotion
Description: The overall goal of the Mental Health Promotion Unit is to integrate mental health promotion principles in healthy public policy, and to facilitate research, knowledge development, evaluation, and innovative projects which promote and improve mental health and well‑-being, within a variety of environments.
Document Types: Positive Mental Health: mental health promotion policy and practices;, the determinants of the mental health status of the Canadian population, youth empowerment mental health; community empowerment; suicide prevention; international network capacity building for mental health; prevention of mental health problems and disorders; suicide prevention, and international mental health promotion.
Record Number: PHAC 008 270

Evidence and Information for Chronic Disease Policy Division
Description: Responsible for translation of scientific information into policy for chronic diseases, planning and evaluation of policy and programs, and dissemination of information and liaison with stakeholders in practice, policy and research.
Document Types: National consortium for best practices in chronic disease prevention and control; intervention strategies for chronic diseases.
Record Number: PHAC 008 267

Mental Illness
Description: A new report on mental health and mental illness in Canada, expected was published in fall 2006 (updates the 2002 Report on Mental Illnesses in Canada) will help to raise awareness of, and educate the public on these common and important health issues. The Division is also exploring the establishment of mental health surveillance with provinces, territories, private sector partners and stakeholders to improve the quality and availability of information to support evidence-based decision making for mental health services and programming. Surveillance reports can be accessed via the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) website.
Document Types: Mental illness; mental illness surveillance.
Record Number: PHAC 008 510

Microbiology
Description: 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 operates six External National Reference Centres on a cost‑sharing basis with the Provinces. These centres include Parasitology (Serology), Mycology, Yersinia, Streptococcus, Rabies and Epstein Barr Virus.
Document Types: Parasitology; mycology; streptococcus; molecular typing.
Record Number: PHAC 008 180

Middle Childhood and Adolescence
Description: The focus is on research, knowledge development and dissemination, consensus building and policy development activities, focused primarily on the middle childhood and adolescence (6 to 18) stages of development, both nationally and internationally. It includes supporting opportunities and choices for youth and; intersectoral collaboration with communities, governments and the private sector and; information on the health behaviours in school‑aged children survey and models, such as the School Health Model Behaviour in School‑Aged Children survey; and models, such as Comprehensive School Health.
Document Types: Adolescent engagement and empowerment; Comprehensive School Health; School Health Model; Health Behaviours, Behaviour in School‑Aged Children Survey; identity development; adolescent attachment.
Record Number: PHAC 008 182

National Children's Agenda
Description: The National Children's Agenda (NCA) - a cooperative effort by federal, provincial and territorial governments - was established to ensure that all Canadian children have the best opportunity to develop their potential. The governments' Ashared vision@ of the agenda includes goals for all Canadian children: to be healthy (physically and emotionally), safe and secure, successful at learning, socially engaged and responsible. The vision also identifies six areas in which collaboration by governments could enhance child well-being: enhancing early child development; supporting parents and strengthening families; improving income security for families; providing early and continuous learning experiences; promoting healthy adolescent development; and creating safe, supportive and violence-free communities. Working together, the governments of Canada are making progress in two important areas: fighting child poverty (through the National Child Benefit) and promoting early childhood development (through the Early Childhood Development Initiative).
Document Types: Employment Insurance benefits for parental leave; National Child benefit; workplace policies; family law; family supports; early child development; continuous learning.
Record Number: PHAC 008 184

National Collaborating Centres for Public Health
Description: The Government of Canada's commitment to renew and strengthen public health includes the establishment of six National Collaborating Centres (NCCs) for Public Health. The over-arching mission for these Centres is to build on existing strengths and create and foster linkages among researchers, the public health community and other stakeholders to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of Canada's public health system. The National Collaborating Centres will facilitate the sharing of knowledge and help put it into practice at all levels of the public health system across Canada. The six NCCs will be established in regions across the country; each one specializing in a different priority area of public health as follows: environmental health (British Columbia); infectious disease (Winnipeg); public health methodologies and tools (Ontario); public policy and risk assessment (Quebec); health determinants (Atlantic) and Aboriginal health (British Columbia). Although located regionally, these Centres will provide national focal points for knowledge translation in key priority areas of public health and contribute to the development of a pan-Canadian public health strategy. Each National Collaborating Centre will draw on regional, national and international expertise and complement/collaborate with the contributions of other organizations in the pan-Canadian public health system, including the Public Health Agency of Canada, the provinces and territories, academia and non-government organizations.
Document Types: Environmental health; infectious diseases; public health; health determinants; Aboriginal health; public health collaboration; public health research; public health practices.
Record Number: PHAC 008 511

National HIV and Retrovirology Laboratories
Description: 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.
Document Types: National HIV and Retrovirology Laboratories (NHRL); HIV and HTL (Human T-cell Leukaemia Virus I/II); HIV drug resistance testing; HIV antibody testing; Canadian HIV/AIDS Strain Surveillance and Drug Resistance Program.
Record Number: PHAC 008 185

National Plan of Action
Description: A Canada Fit for Children, Canada's national plan of action for children, was released in May 2004 in response to commitments made at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children in May 2002 and based on A World Fit for Children. A Canada Fit for Children is a call to action, identifying strategies to which all Canadians can contribute in order to improve the lives of children in Canada and the world. It outlines goals, strategies, and opportunities for action on key priorities within four central themes: supporting families and strengthening communities; promoting healthy lives; protecting from harm; and promoting education and learning.
Document Types: Family supports; community supports; health promotion; child rights; early childhood development; child protection; continuous learning.
Record Number: PHAC 008 313

Observatory of Best Practices for Chronic Disease; Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Description: In collaboration with experts from the research, policy and practice communities, the Public Health Agency of Canada is working to developing and disseminate disseminating best practices information for chronic disease interventions through an the Observatory of Canadian Best Practices Portal. Its scope includes community and population-level interventions in aimed specifically toward chronic- disease-related health promotion, and prevention, and provides an early detection and management. This comprehensive System will provide a broad evidence base that to identifies identify and recommends effective interventions. It also, and builds capacity for capturing evidence of effectiveness of health related interventions. The Canadian Best Practices Initiative facilitates knowledge within, and external to, the health sector, facilitating information exchange between decision-makers for population and public health research, practice and policy to improve evidence-based practice and policy in Canada.
Document Types: Cardiovascular disease; cancer; diabetes; mental health illness; key risk / protective factors (obesity, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, hypertension); determinants of health.
Record Number: PHAC 008 512

Office of the Voluntary Sector
Description: The Office of the Voluntary Sector serves as a centre of expertise, leadership and coordination within the health portfolio for issues, activities and programs concerning the voluntary health sector. The office is the lead for the health portfolio's implementation of the Government of Canada's Accord with the Voluntary Sector and the Codes of Good Practice. The office coordinates the Department's participation in the federal Voluntary Sector Initiative (VSI) led by Canadian Heritage. The office also provides individual organizational and sector‑wide development grants to small and medium national voluntary health organizations representing conditions or diseases of small incidence.
Document Types: Voluntary Sector Accord and Codes of Good Practice; Voluntary Sector Initiatives; development grants for voluntary health organizations; Policy Internships and Fellowships project.
Record Number: PHAC 008 311

Policy Research Unit (PRU) Program
Description: The Policy Research Unit currently provides two services. The Economic Burden of Illness in Canada will be updated to data from 2000 by May 2008. As well, the PRU provides advice on public health economic issues, for example, the determination of the economic burden of health-care associated infections. The Policy Research Unit is also preparing a strategic plan to identify and clarify future products and services. To support program activities, the PRU maintains non-identifying record level data obtained from outside sources including Statistics Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and some provinces and territories.
Document Types: Economic Burden of Illness in Canada (EBIC); Population Health Impact of Disease in Canada (PHI); Effectiveness of Community Interventions Project (ECIP).
Record Number: PHAC 008 513

Population Health Approach
Description: Strategies are now being employed to integrate the approach into broader health portfolio activities in order to inform Canadians about both the approach and population health initiatives. These strategies include a conceptual framework for thinking about health; decisions that are guided by consideration of the evidence; a framework for taking action; actions targeted at the societal, community, structural or system level; and requirements of collaboration between multiple sectors.
Document Types: Social, economic and physical environments; early childhood development; personal health practices; individual capacity and coping skills; human biology; health services.
Record Number: PHAC 008 328

Population Health Fund
Description: The Population Health Fund supports time-limited projects sponsored by Canadian voluntary not-for-profit organization and educational institutions. The goal of the Population Health Fund is build capacity to address the determinants of health. To increase community capacity for action on or across the determinants of health specific objectives include increasing the knowledge base for program and policy development on population healthy and facilitate partnerships and intersectoral collaboration to address health inequalities. The Public Health Agency of Canada is in the process of reviewing the Fund and will be establishing priorities on the basis of current evidence and an identification of major gaps in knowledge on effective policies and innovative initiatives related to the determinants of health, health inequalities and complex public health issues. The projects develop and disseminate community-based models for applying the population health approach, increase the knowledge base for program and policy development on population health and increase partnerships and intersectoral collaboration to address the determinants of health. The Public Health Agency of Canada establishes priorities for funding based on identified program needs and life stages.
Document Types: Settings for Health Again; Obesity: Health Literacy; and Populations experiencing poor health outcomes. Healthy communities; mental health; children's health; healthy living; parenting supports; chronic disease.
Record Number: PHAC 008 330

Public Health Law and Ethics Program
Description: The Public Health Law and Ethics Program (PHLEP) is intended to improve the health of the Canadian public through law. The law influences the practice of public health at the local, regional provincial/territorial, federal and international levels, and enables jurisdictions to work together on the day-to-day business of public health. The goals of the program are to improve the legal preparedness of the public health system and other national public health initiatives, support a better understanding and use of law and ethics as a public health tool, and establish strong national partnerships between public health practitioners and their colleagues in key related sectors.
Document Types: Public Health Law and Ethics Program. Law and ethics of practice of public health at the local, regional provincial/territorial.
Record Number: PHAC 008 514

Risk Factors
Description: Through collaboration with other departmental and external experts, this project contributes to the development of quality data collection sources to enhance risk factor surveillance, evaluation and research in Canada. Lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet, physical activity, alcohol use and sun exposure are some of the most important contributors to the development of a wide range of chronic diseases. This project does not provide information directly to the public. However, expertise is provided on data availability and interpretation to those within the Department who develop public reports. This project also helps to ensure that the current and emerging data needs of the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in this area are understood and considered when developing national data collection programs.
Document Types: Lifestyle; smoking; diet; diabetes; physical activity; sun exposure; substance use; mental health; chronic diseases for women, aboriginal peoples, seniors and ethnic minorities; economics and employment.
Record Number: PHAC 008 309

Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Program
Description: 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.
Document Types: Sexually transmitted infections (chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), and Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
Record Number: PHAC 008 515

Skills Enhancement for Public Health
Description: This program offers online continuing education opportunities for public health practitioners Canada through a series of online modules in both official languages.
Document Types: Epidemiology; surveillance; information management; needs-based planning; surveillance database and tool use.
Record Number: PHAC 008 516

Surveillance and Epidemiology Program
Description: 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.
Document Types: Sexually transmitted infections (Chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhoea, syphilis, Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and hepatitis C).
Record Number: PHAC 008 520

Surveillance and Information Expert Group Secretariat, Pan-Canadian Public Health Network (PHN)
Description: The Surveillance and Information Expert Group (SIEG) support the Council of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network in providing coordination and leadership for public health surveillance, information collection and analysis, and knowledge dissemination across Canada. The Secretariat provides advice on evolving issues, prepares background information, and handles secretariat services.
Document Types: Council of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network; public health surveillance; public health information dissemination.
Record Number: PHAC 008 517

Surveillance and Information Policy
Description: In the aftermath of the 2002 – 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreaks in Canada, a number of high profile external reports pointed to gaps in information systems and information sharing practices. Since then, the Public Health Agency of Canada has been collaborating with its local, provincial and territorial counterparts to develop principles and tools for sharing information.
Document Types: contracts, memoranda of understanding, guidelines, policies, reports.
Record Number: PHAC 008 508

Surveillance and Epidemiology Program
Description: 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.
Document Types: Sexually transmitted infections (Chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and hepatitis C).
Record Number: PHAC 008 520

Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program
Description: 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.
Document Types: Tuberculosis; TB drug resistance and infection; Canadian Tuberculosis Standards; Canadian Tuberculosis Committee.
Record Number: PHAC 008 519

Standard Classes of Records

Please see the introduction to this publication for the descriptions of Standard Classes of Records.

Boards, Committees and Councils

Communications

Procurement and Contracting

Recruitment and Staffing

Institution-Specific Personal Information Banks

Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Program
Description: This bank contains information about Canadian children under age 20 years diagnosed with cancer from 1995 on. Data are collected via questionnaire and clinical chart review. Information collected from 1995 to 2000 includes name, address, telephone number of the patient and the parent or legal guardian and health insurance number. Information collected 2001 onward does not include the above information. Other information includes diagnostic, treatment, and clinical outcome data.
Class of Individuals: Canadian children aged 20 or less at time of diagnosis with cancer as identified via pediatric oncology centers or via provincial cancer registries, and who agree to participate in study.
Purpose: To facilitate development of prevention and control strategies, and to assess risk factors and to minimize long-term consequences.
Consistent Uses: For surveillance analysis. Information may be used to contact these individuals in follow-up surveys except after 2001, where the pediatric oncology centre will take responsibility of contacting individuals.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Retained a minimum of 10 yrs, and then reviewed for possible transfer to Library and Archives Canada (excluding questionnaires which may be destroyed after 2 yrs).
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 336
TBS Registration: 004092
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 082

Canadian Communicable Disease Surveillance System
Description: This bank contains information provided by provincial health departments relating to socio-demographic characteristics of the patients, diagnostic information and treatment history.
Class of Individuals: The information relates to individuals with a diagnosed occurrence of a notifiable communicable disease.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to provide a database to monitor the incidence of notifiable communicable diseases for use in epidemiological studies in support of disease control and prevention measures.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Retained a minimum of 10 yrs, and then transferred to Library and Archives Canada (excluding questionnaires which may be destroyed after 2 yrs).
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 172
TBS Registration: 004093
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 078

Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System
Description: The bank contains information on incidence of birth defects in Canada. Participating provinces provide machine readable information including the date of birth, sex, nature of birth defects, municipality of residence and a provincial registration number. The system was initiated in 1966.
Class of Individuals: All infants born in participating provinces and diagnosed as having a birth defect in the first year of life since 1973.
Purpose: The purpose of this data bank is to provide a database to monitor the incidence of birth defects in Canada and to serve as a register for epidemiological research studies.
Consistent Uses: Use of this bank is consistent with the purpose specified in section 5.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Retained a minimum of 10 yeas, and then reviewed for possible transfer to Library and Archives Canada (excluding questionnaires which may be destroyed after 2 years).
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 172
TBS Registration: 004111
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 075

Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program
Description: This bank contains information provided by injured persons and by the hospitals at which they were seen. The following personal information is in the bank: the hospital name, injured person's medical record number, date of birth, sex and postal code and the first three letters of the individual's family name. In addition there is information on the circumstances in which the injury occurred, the nature of the injury and how the case was handled in the emergency room.
Class of Individuals: The information relates to individuals who seek care for injuries or poisoning at one of 10 pediatric and 6 general hospitals that participate in the program.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to provide an ongoing surveillance of the circumstances in which injuries occur and, by making the information available to those who develop and evaluate injury prevention programs, to make an important contribution to reducing the number and severity of injuries in Canada.
Consistent Uses: A postal code conversion program developed at Statistics Canada will permit linkage of CHIRPP data with grouped census data and analysis of the associations of socio-demographic factors with injuries.
Retention and Disposal Standards: The files are retained for 100 years.
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 328
TBS Registration: 003452
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 066

Canadian Surveillance for Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CIDPC)
Description: This data will be collected about people with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and persons who do not have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (controls) by reviewing their clinical records for clinical information and for information about exposure to blood or certain procedures. Additional information will be collected by interviews with the family, by collecting blood samples for genetic tests and by collecting neuropathology samples after death.
Class of Individuals: All persons who are suspected to have developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and their controls, recruited through physicians from hospitals and the local community.
Purpose: To determine the risk of acquiring Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through blood transfusions; to determine if there is any unusual forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease as seen in England following the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) epidemic.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: To be determined.
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 401
TBS Registration: 004904
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 286

Canadian Tuberculosis Reporting System
Description: Contains information collected and provided to the Public Health Agency of Canada (formerly Health Canada) since 1996 and data provided to Statistics Canada from 1970 - 1995 by provincial and territorial public health authorities on persons reported with TB disease (new active or relapsed cases). Data may include reporting province/territory, gender, age, date of birth, birthplace, activity status, HIV status, drug resistance, treatment outcomes (including death and cause of death, compliance and whether or not treatment was directly observed) and drug regimens.
Purpose: To support the prevention and control of tuberculosis. An annual report called "Tuberculosis in Canada" is published and is available in bilingual print version and on the Public Health Agency of Canada website.
Consistent Uses: Secondary analysis of sub-groups of the population (i.e., by ethnic origin or disease site) to further understanding of epidemiology of tuberculosis in Canada. Information may be provided to Statistics Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada Notifiable Diseases On-line.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Report forms are retained a minimum of 10 yrs, then reviewed for possible transfer to Library and Archives Canada. Electronic version of data is retained in order to do time series analyses.
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 170
TBS Registration: 004112
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 087

Extraordinary Assistance Plan
Description: Contains applications, correspondence, medical records of applicants who became infected with the AIDS virus (HIV) who received blood or blood products as well as their first order relative (spouse/partner or child) who was secondarily infected with HIV; and to living thalidomide victims who were born in Canada and whose mothers took thalidomide during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Class of Individuals: Individuals or agents of their estates who have applied for benefits.
Purpose: To determine eligibility and administer financial benefits to HIV infected persons and thalidomide victims.
Consistent Uses: Information contained in these files is used to determine eligibility for receipt of financial benefits only.
Retention and Disposal Standards: The HIV files are retained for a minimum of 20 years after last activity on file and the thalidomide files for 100 years after last activity on file.
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 255
TBS Registration: 005078
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 039

Home Care Study
Description: This bank contains information about clients and formal and informal care providers of home care within Ottawa-Carleton. The data consists of a client code, postal code, age, gender, and diagnosis, reason for admission to home care, referral source, mother tongue, living arrangements, and relation to informal care provider. For informal care providers, data include the individual score on the Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale.
Class of Individuals: Formal and informal care providers and clients admitted to the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton Home Care Program.
Purpose: To gain a better understanding of the factors which influence access to home care services.
Consistent Uses: Pilot research project only.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Retained 25 yrs then transferred to Library and Archives Canada.
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 305
TBS Registration: 004089
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 090

Physical Activity Benchmarks Initiative
Description: The Physical Activity Unit provides contribution funding to the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute to monitor and track population physical activity levels, factors which influence physical activity at the individual, organization and systemic levels (i.e., settings and environments), capacities of governments and partners to act, and the outcomes of joint action. The Physical Activity Benchmarks Initiative informs Federal/Provincial/Territorial decision-making and provides the basis for progress reports to Ministers vis-à-vis their target to increase the physical activity levels of Canadians by 10 percentage points in each Province and Territory by 2010.
Class of Individuals: Individual Canadians and professionals in the physical activity community.
Purpose: The primary purpose of the program is to track physical activity levels of Canadians and factors which influence physical activity. The data is used to develop policy and program strategies aimed at increasing physical activity levels of Canadians.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Retained 10 yrs, then transferred to Library and Archives Canada.
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 420
TBS Registration: 005079
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 235

Physician Asthma Management Study
Description: The former Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) of Health Canada commissioned a national survey of physicians on their asthma management practices prior to 1997. This survey comprises part of a national strategy that LCDC has undertaken in partnership with other members of the National Asthma Control Task Force. Questionnaires were sent to 4,489 physicians in Canada's ten provinces and two territories. Physicians were asked how often they used different method of diagnosis and follow-up and different medications for treatment of asthma in adults and children. These findings will be useful in targeting education interventions on certain topics of asthma management to specific groups of physicians.
Class of Individuals: Canadian physicians.
Purpose: To collect information on the variety and quality of asthma care and education in Canada; to provide advice to the National Asthma Control Task Force
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Retained a minimum of 10 yrs, and then reviewed for possible transfer to Library and Archives Canada.
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 317
TBS Registration: 004106
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 086

Spousal Determinants in Delayed Response to Chest Discomfort Survey
Description: The telephone survey contains information on how a woman would respond if her partner consulted her regarding chest discomfort. Personal information will only be collected on those individuals who agree to participate in future surveys on the same subjects. Personal identifiers collected will include name, address, age, and telephone number.
Class of Individuals: Respondents are randomly selected adult women chosen by telephone number in Ottawa-Carleton.
Purpose: Future surveys on delay determinants would be enhanced if repeated on the same individuals to examine changes over time or after community targeted interventions.
Consistent Uses: To match an individual's response from the first survey to subsequent surveys.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Retained a minimum of 10 yrs, and then reviewed for possible transfer to Library and Archives Canada (excluding questionnaires which may be destroyed after 2 yrs).
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 404
TBS Registration: 004108
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 091

Student Lung Health Survey
Description: In 1995-96, a school-based survey of asthma was conducted in nine volunteer health units across Canada, targeting 5 to 19 year-olds enrolled in school. The objectives were to examine asthma prevalence, incidence, severity, associated risk factors, management and treatment practices, the utilization of health services and the prevalence of allergies. Approximately 39,800 students received the Screening Questionnaire through the classroom teacher in the elementary schools or by mail-out to their home for high school students. An in-depth Asthma Telephone Interview (ATI) was conducted within the previous twelve months of this survey with those who had previously been diagnosed with asthma.
Class of Individuals: The information relates to individual who participated in the study.
Purpose: To collect enhanced surveillance data on current asthmatic and asthma-like students. This is needed for the planning and implementation of effective asthma control programs in Canada.
Consistent Uses: Respondents may be contacted in the future to provide other health related information. This information may be shared with other programs within Health Canada. The public health units will retain the original questionnaires and data for their own health services delivery.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Retained a minimum of 10 yrs, and then reviewed for possible transfer to Library and Archives Canada (excluding questionnaires which may be destroyed after 2 yrs).
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 317
TBS Registration: 004110
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 081

Traveler Illness Reports
Description: The Traveler Illness Report form will collect information on an individual who arrives ill at a port of entry (airport, seaport, border crossing, etc.) as well as when needed, other passengers in contact with the ill individual(s). Information collected include some, if not all, of the following: traveler's (or contact's) name, nationality, home address and phone number, address and phone number while in Canada (if different), transporter details (airline, ship, seat/cabin number, etc.), ill traveler's symptoms (high fever, coughing, rash, bleeding, etc.), travel history, particularly if there has been recent travel in a tropical country, if any, similar illness in travel companions preliminary diagnosis, if available, if the traveler is being referred to hospital for medical attention, details on the ambulance, hospital, immigration status of the ill individual (and if not Canadian, passport number), name and phone number of person reporting the ill traveler.
Class of Individuals: Travelers arriving at a Canadian port of entry who exhibit two or more symptoms of illness.
Purpose: The Traveler Illness Report form is used to document arriving ill individuals and their contacts in order to determine the amount of illness among travelers and to proactively identify unusual incidences of diseases overseas as well as to facilitate tracing of passengers in the event of an outbreak of diseases of significance.
Consistent Uses: Nominal information collected by the Traveler Illness Report form will not be matched with any other personal information bank. Data on countries visited and symptoms exhibited may be collected for research purposes. Disclosure of an individual's information will be limited, on a need-to-know basis, to appropriate port of entry personnel, the Public Health Agency of Canada quarantine officials, and, in the case of someone who requires further medical attention at a health care institution, medical staff, as well as immigration authorities, should the traveler not be Canadian.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Nominal and tracing information will be retained for at least two incubation periods of the suspected illness, to a maximum of three months, in order to ensure that there is no secondary spread of the illness. After abstraction of data on countries visited and symptoms for research purposes, the form will be retained for 2 years, and then destroyed.
RDA Number: To be determined.
Related Record Number: PHAC 008 276
TBS Registration: 004064
Bank Number: PHAC PPU 071

Standard Personal Information Banks

Please see the introduction to this publication for the descriptions of Standard Personal Information Banks.

Access to Information and Privacy Requests

Applications for Employment

Business Continuity Planning

Internal Communications

Members of Boards, Committees and Councils

Personnel Security Screening

Professional Services Contracts

Public Communications

Security Video Surveillance and Temporary Visitor Access Control Logs and Building Passes

Manuals

200 Bed Emergency Hospital
50-60 Bed Emergency Hospital
A Guide to Green Government
A Submitter's Guide for Compliance with Part V of the Medical Devices Regulations
Acceptable Methods
Active Tuberculosis Case Report Form - New and Re-treatment Cases (January, 2008)
Additional Provincial/Territorial Services Information Exchange
Advanced Treatment Centre
Advisory Committee on Institutional and Medical Services (A.C.I.M.S.) Hospital Claims Manual
Advisory Committee Statement; (ACS-10): Interferon gamma release assays for latent tuberculosis infection Canadian Tuberculosis Committee
Advisory Committee Statement; (ACS-9): Housing conditions that serve as risk factors for tuberculosis infection and disease Canadian Tuberculosis Committee
Advisory Notice: Infection Control for Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (1996)
Analytical Methods and Techniques for Colours in Foods
Analytical Methods for Pesticide Residues in Foods
Analytical Methods for the Regulatory Analysis of Foods
B.F.M.M. Financial Coding Manual
Bacteriology of Tuberculosis
BCG Vaccine Usage in Canada – Currentand Historical
Blood Collection and Blood Component Manufacturing
Blood Lead Intervention Levels and Strategies
Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR)
Canadian Drug Identification Code
Canadian Environmental Protection Act Human Health Risk Assessment for Priority Substances
Canadian Guide to Clinical Preventative Health Care B The Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination
Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education
Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections 2006 Edition
Canadian Immunization Guide 7^th Edition, 2006
Canadian Immunization Guide Fourth Edition, 2006
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Handbook
Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan
Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector
Canadian Recommendations for the Prevention and Treatment of Malaria Among International Travellers- (CCDR 2000; 26S2:1-42)
Canadian Street Youth and Substance Use: Findings from Enhanced Surveillance of Canadian Street Youth, 1999-2003 (November 2007)
Canadian Transfusion Adverse Event Reporting Form User's Manual
Canadian Tuberculosis Standards 2007
Canadian Water Guidelines
Casualty Collecting Unit
Casualty Simulation
CATMAT and NACI - Travel, Influenza and Prevention- (CCDR 1996; 22: 141-145)
Chemistry and Manufacturing: New Drugs
Classic Creutzfeldt -Jakob Disease in Canada- Quick Reference Guide 2007
Clinical Guidelines for Medical Services Personnel
Coal Liquefaction and Health: Elements of a Worker Health Surveillance Program
Code of Practice - General Principles of Food Hygiene for Use by the Food Industry in Canada
Community Health Nursing (Saskatchewan region)
Compendium of Analytical Methods - Vol. 1 - Official Methods of Microbiological Analysis for Foods
Compendium of Analytical Methods - Vol. 2 - HPB Methods of Microbiological Analysis for Foods
Compendium of Analytical Methods - Vol. 4- Detection of Extraneous Matter in Foods
Compendium of Analytical Methods -Vol. 3 - Laboratory Procedures of Microbiological Analysis for Foods
Completing an Application for Registration as a Proprietary Medicine
Conduct and Analysis of Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies - Part AA@
Conduct of Clinical Investigations
Construction-related Nosocomial Infections in Patients in Health Care Facilities: Decreasing the Risk of Aspergillus, Legionella and Other Infections
Consumer Drug Advertising
Containment Standards for Veterinary Facilities
Control Guideline: Routine Practices and additional Precautions for Preventing the Transmission of Infection in Health Care
Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance - An Integrated Action Plan for Canadians (Background Information) May 1997
Course Manual - Emergency Health/Social Services Planning (Community)
Course Manual - Hospital Emergency Planning
Course Manual - Special Care Facility Emergency Planning
DAS British Columbia Region Analytical Methods
DAS British Columbia Region Standard Operating Procedures
DAS Drug Analysis Service (DAS) National Analytical Methods
DAS National Standard Operating Procedures
DAS Ontario Region Analytical Methods
DAS Ontario Region Standard Operating Procedures
Dental Practitioner Information Kit
Departmental Security Manual of Health Canada
Design Guidelines - Part 1, Space and Furnishings
DFS Procedures
Diagnostic Reference Testing of Selected Viruses
Diagnostic x-ray equipment compliance and facility survey
Direction for Use of Estrogen-Progestin Combination Oral Contraceptives
Disinfectants: Preparation of Application for Drug Identification Number
Dose - Response Information To Support Drug Registration
Drug Distribution Manual
Emergency Based Medicine - (CCDR 1994; 20: 145-147)
Emergency Clothing Manual
Emergency Food Services Manual
Emergency Health Services Health Supplies
Emergency Hospital (Operating Manuals)
Emergency Lodging Manual
EMS Self-Assessment Guide
Environment (CCME), 1992
Environmental Contaminants Manual
Exposure Guidelines for Residential Indoor Air Quality
Fever in the International Traveller - (CCDR 1997; 23: 1-8)
Financial Management Guide for projects funded under the Population Health Fund
Financial Management Manual (volumes 1 to 3)
Food, Drug, Cosmetic and Medical Device Projects to Be Conducted During Program Year
Foreign Service Directives
Form Completion Guidelines for the Reporting Form for a Case of infectious TB on an Aircraft (February 2008)
Framework for Research on Active Living
Fungal contamination in public buildings: A guide to recognition and management
General principles for labeling and advertising claims that relate to the nutrition recommendations
Good Manufacturing Practices, 3rd Edition
Guide for applicants, Population health Fund: Rural and Remote Health Innovations Initiative
Guide for the labeling of drugs for veterinary use
Guide for the Preparation of Plant Master Files and Imported Drug Submissions
Guide to Project Evaluation
Guidelines for Biomedical Facilities using Sheep as Research Animals
Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality, Sixth Edition
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Guidelines for Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Antimastitis Intramammary Infusion Drugs
Guidelines for Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Teat Dip Formulations
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Guidelines for incidental additive submissions
Guidelines for Infection Control
Guidelines for Product Monographs and Package Inserts for Schedule C. Drugs
Guidelines for Safe Use of Ultrasound: Part II - Industrial and Commercial Applications - Safety Code 24
Guidelines for Submissions under Section 17 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act
Guidelines for the Development of Efficacy Data to Support the Use of Animal Drugs in Feeds
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Guidelines for the Notification and Testing of New Substances: Chemicals and Polymers
Guidelines for the Notification and Testing of New Substances: Organisms
Guidelines for the Practice of Travel Medicine
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Guidelines for the Preparation of Toxicity and Residue Submissions for the Human Safety of Veterinary Products Intended for Use in Food Producing Animals
Guidelines for the Production, Distribution, Retailing and Use of Refrigerated Prepackaged Foods with Extended Shelf Life
Guidelines for the Safe Use of Ultrasound Part I: Medical and Paramedical Applications - Safety Code 23
Guidelines for Working with the Private Sector
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Hazardous Products Act Reference Manuals
Health - Based Tolerable Daily Intakes / Concentrations and Tumorigenic Doses / Concentrations for Priority Substances
Health Canada. Quality Determinants of Organized Breast Cancer Screening Programs in Canada
Health Canada. Report from the Evaluation Indicators Working Group: Guidelines for Monitoring Breast Cancer Screening Program Performance
Health Protection and Drug Laws
Homeopathic Preparations: Application for Drug Identification Numbers
Hospital Disaster Supplies
Housing an Aging Population: Guidelines for Development and Design
Human Health Risk Assessment for Priority Substances
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
ICH - Clinical Safety Data Management: Definitions and Standards for Expedited Reporting
ICH - Dose - Response Information to Support Drug Registration
ICH - Impurities in New Drug Substances
ICH - Stability Testing of New Drug Substances and Products
ICH - Studies in Support of Special Populations: Geriatrics
ICH - The Extent of Population Exposure to Assess Clinical Safety for Drugs Intended for Long-Term Treatment of Non-Life-Threatening Conditions
Indoor Air Quality in Office Buildings: A Technical Guide
Industrial Hemp Technical Manual
Infection Control Guidance in a Non-Outbreak Setting, (In the Absence of SARS) When an Individual Presents to a Health Care Institution With A Respiratory Infection
Infection Control Guideline: An Integrated Protocol to Manage Health Care Workers Exposed to Blood borne Pathogens
Infection Control Guideline: Canadian Contingency Plan for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and Other Related Diseases
Infection Control Guideline: Foot Care by Health Care Providers
Infection Control Guideline: Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Tuberculosis in Canadian Health Care Facilities and Other Institutional Settings
Infection Control Guideline: Hand Washing, Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization in Health Care
Infection Control Guideline: Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Personal Services: Tattooing, Ear/Body Piercing, and Electrolysis
Infection Control Guideline: Occupational Health In Health Care
Infection Control Guideline: Preventing Infections Associated with Indwelling Intravascular Access Devices
Infection Control Guideline: Preventing the Spread of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) in Canada
Infection Control Guideline: Preventing the Transmission of Blood borne Pathogens in Health care and Public Services Settings
Infection Control Guideline: Proceedings of the Consensus Conference on Infected Health Care Workers - Risk for Transmission of Blood borne Pathogens
Infection Control Guideline: Routine Practices and additional Precautions for Preventing the Transmission of Infection in Health Care
Inspection of Biologics Manufacturers
Inspection Procedures for Food Plant Inspectors
Investigating Human Exposure to Contaminants in the Environment: A Handbook for Exposure Calculations
Labeling of Cosmetics
Labeling of Drugs for Human Use
Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines
Laboratory Guidelines for Serotyping and Biotyping Campylobacters
Laboratory Methods for Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
Laboratory Methods for the Diagnosis of Legionnaire Disease
Laboratory Quality Assurance Standards
Limits of Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields at Frequencies from 10 kHz - 300 GHz - Safety Code 6
Management of Emergency Delivery
Management of Viral Hepatitis: A Canadian Consensus Conference, 2003/2004
Manufacture and Testing of Biologics Produced by Recombinant DNA Technology
Manufacture and Testing of Monoclonal Antibodies and Their Conjugates
Menopause
National Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Design 2 costs guidelines
National Consensus Conference on Foodborne, Waterborne and Enteric Disease Surveillance November 1995
National Consultation on the Role of the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control in Tuberculosis Prevention and Control) Proceedings and Recommendations July 1994
National Enforcement Reports (Prosecutions, Recalls, Imported Products Unacceptable for Sale in Canada, Seizures forfeited)
National Guidelines for Environmental Noise Control
National Health Research and Development Program Career Awards Guide
National Health Research and Development Program Projects Guide
National Health Research and Development Program Training Awards Guide
National Immunization Strategy
National Symposium on Risk and Prevention of Infectious Diseases for Emergency Response Personnel September 1994
National Workshop on Tuberculosis, HIV and Other Emerging Issues - Proceedings May 1993
Native Alcohol Abuse Program (Manitoba region)
NIHB Program directives
Nurses' Drug Classification System
Nursing Manual - a reference book for Indian Health Nurses (Atlantic, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan regions)
Occupational Health Assessment Guide
Occupational Health Nursing Manual
Occupational Safety and Health Manual B HC
Office Air: A Worker's Guide to Air Quality in Offices, Schools and Hospitals
Ontario Region - Procedures for Conducting Compliance Activities
Oral Contraceptives (1994)
Patient Care in Flight
Persistent Diarrhea in the Returned Traveler - (CCDR 1997; 23: 1-8)
Personal Services: Psychosocial Planning for Disasters
Pharmacy Provider Information Kit
Plasmid Biology and Recombinant DNA Methodology
Policy Guide for the Management of Advisory Committees in Health Canada
Population Health Fund - Guide for Applicants
Preparation of Human New Drug Submissions
Preparation of Investigational New Drug Submissions
Preparation of Veterinary New Drug Submissions
Product Master Files
Product Monographs
Product Recall Procedures
Programmatic Guidelines for Screening for Cancer of the Cervix in Canada
Protocols for Identification of Neisseria Species
Public Service Health Manual for Environmental Health Officers
Radiation Protection in Computed Tomography Installations - Safety Code 31
Radiation Protection in Dentistry - Recommended Safety Procedures for Use of Dental X-Ray Equipment - Safety Code 30
Radiation Protection In Mammography - Safety Code 33
Radiation Protection in Veterinary Medicine - Recommended Safety Procedures for Installation and Use of Veterinary X-Ray Equipment - Safety Code 28
Radiation Safety Codes
Radiation Safety for Baggage X-Ray Inspection Systems
Reference Guide of Funding Sources for Health Research in Canada
Regional Interim Directives Manual (Manitoba region)
Registration and Inquiry Manual
Registration Handbook
Regulatory and Quarantine
Regulatory Directives
Requirement for the Safe Use of Baggage X-Ray Inspection Systems - Safety Code 29
Requirements for Industrial X-ray Equipment Use and Installation - Safety Code 27
Resources Catalogue (Quebec region)
Safety Code 23. Guidelines for the Safe Use of Ultrasound Part I - Medical and Paramedical Applications
Safety Code 24. Guidelines for the Safe Use of Ultrasound: Part II - Industrial and Commercial Applications. 1991
Safety Code 25. Short-Wave Diathermy Guidelines for Limited Radio Frequency Exposure
Safety Code 27. Requirements for Industrial X-ray Equipment Use and Installation
Safety Code 28. Radiation Protection in Veterinary Medicine Recommended safety procedures for installation and use of veterinary x-ray equipment
Safety Code 29. Requirements for the Safe Use of Baggage X-Ray Inspection Systems
Safety Code 30. Radiation Protection in Dentistry. Recommended Safety Procedures for the Use of Dental X-Ray Equipment
Safety Code 31. Radiation Protection in Computed Tomography Installations
Safety Code 32. Safety Requirements and Guidance for Analytical X-ray Equipment
Safety Code 33. Radiation Protection in Mammography
Safety Code 6. Limits of Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields in the Frequency Range from 3kHz to 300 GHz
Safety Requirements and Guidance for Analytical X-Ray Equipment - Safety Code 32
Sanitation and Environmental Health Manual for CHR's
Sanitation Code for Canada's Food Service Industry
Ship's Nurse Manual
South Zone Field Administrative Manual (Manitoba Region)
Stability Testing of new Drug Substances and Products (ICH)
Staphylococcal Phage Typing of Staphylococcal Microorganisms
Statement on Hepatitis A Vaccines for Travelers- (CCDR 2001; 27: 3-12)
Statement on High-Altitude Illnesses - (CCDR 1998; 24: 1-9)
Statement on Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine - (CCDR 1998; 24: 1-4)
Statement on Meningococcal Vaccination for Travelers - (CCDR 1999; 25: 1-6)
Statement on Motion Sickness
Statement on Oral Cholera Vaccination - (CCDR 1998; 24: 1-3)
Statement on Overseas Travelers and Typhoid - (CCDR 1994; 20: 61-63)
Statement on Poliomyelitis Vaccination for International Travelers - (CCDR 1995; 21: 145-148)
Statement on Travelers and HIV/AIDS - (CCDR 1994; 20: 147-149)
Statement on Travelers and Rabies Vaccine - (CCDR 1994; 20: 201-204)
Statement on Travelers and Sexually Transmitted Diseases - (CCDR 1994; 20: 204-208)
Statement on Travelers' Diarrhea - (CCDR 2001; 27 (ACS-3): 1-12)
SVS Guide
The Assessment of Mutagenicity Health Protection Branch Mutagenicity Guidelines
The Lot by Lot Testing and Release Program
The Professional Practices Framework – IIA Research Foundation
The Risk and Prevention of Tuberculosis Travelers - (CCDR 1997; 1-8)
The use of opioids in the management of opioid dependence
Toxicological Evaluation
Traditional Herbal Medicines
Training Manuals (Course material) - Work planning & Budgeting - Travel - Lotus Notes Basic Training
Transfer Payment Procedures Manual
Travel Medicine Recommendation: Dengue Fever & International Travel - (CCDR 1996; 22: 25-28)
Travel Statement on Jet Lag - (CCDR 1995; 21: 148-151)
Treatment Outcome of a New Active or Re-treatment Tuberculosis Case
Tuberculosis Case Reporting and Treatment Outcome Form Completion Guidelines - (January, 2008)
Tuberculosis Fact Sheets
Tuberculosis in Canada 2004
Tuberculosis in Canada 2006 Pre-Release
Tuberculosis Screening and the International Traveler - (CCDR 1996; 22: 149-154)
Tuberculosis: Drug Resistance in Canada 2007
Utilization of Continuous Cell Lines in the Manufacture of Biologics
Viral, Rickettsial, Chlamydial, Mycoplasma Reagents
X-ray equipment in medical diagnostic part a: recommended safety procedure

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