This webinar investigates how alarming developments can occur at a time when highly effective tools are available to prevent and treat both HIV and syphilis. Speakers describe the Prairies’ intersecting HIV and syphilis crises, provide insights into social and structural factors contributing to increased transmission, and propose strategies to prevent, diagnose and treat infections.
Webcasts
CWN-NCCID Wastewater-Based Surveillance Program
As the first year of the CWN-NCCID Wastewater-based Surveillance (WBS) Program comes to an end in March this year, CWN and NCCID overviewed our WBS program.
Advancing the practice of wastewater surveillance
This seminar will provide a discussion on the multifaceted landscape of wastewater surveillance in Québec, offering insights into lessons learned from reviews, evaluations, and genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 that highlight the pivotal role of wastewater surveillance has and will continue to have in public health monitoring and disease management.
Trans PULSE Canada COVID-19 Podcast Mini-Series
This podcast series provides details about the results of a qualitative study investigating the impact of COVID-19 on trans and nonbinary population and asks guests to speak about their experiences related to common themes identified from the study.
Injury Data and Surveillance: What Are We Looking for?
This presentation will provide information on the importance of striving for a more collaborative approach between data analysts and primary knowledge users who work in the injury prevention field. This will include a description of the reasons for a greater focus on obtaining actionable data to help maximize the use of limited available resources.
Insights in Public Health Surveillance for Maternal and Newborn Health
The journey from pregnancy to childbirth and beyond is a complex process that requires careful attention, informed decision-making, and collaborative efforts from healthcare and public health practitioners, policymakers, researchers, women and their families, and society as a whole.
mod4PH Research Highlights Podcast: Within-Host Modelling, What Does It Mean To Model Immunity?
In this episode, we spoke with Dr Jane Heffernan from York University about using mathematical modelling methods for understanding and controlling infectious diseases in individuals (or immunology) and in populations (or epidemiology), and discuss the differences between within-host and population-level modelling.
Data for Action: the Role of Data Science in Public Health Surveillance
This webinar helps deepen attendees’ understanding of how to use responsible Artificial Intelligence, data science and mathematical solutions to improve public health surveillance and response to emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks.
Canada’s Prison Needle Exchange Program (PNEP): Lessons Learned and Accessibility Barriers
This webinar will explore key barriers and recommendations to Prison Needle Exchange Program (PNEP) access and enrollment. PNEP was implemented in 2018 by the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to provide people in prisons with access to sterile injection equipment.
What can routine surveillance data reveal about antibiotic resistance dynamics?
This webinar will address two analyses of routine surveillance data designed to support parameterisation and construction of mechanistic mathematical models of AMR.
mod4PH Research Highlights Podcast: Is scientific evidence enough? Using expert opinion to fill gaps in data in antimicrobial resistance research
In this episode, we spoke with Dr Melanie Cousins from the Public Health Agency of Canada about some of her PhD work, which was recently published in an article titled “Is scientific evidence enough? Using expert opinion to fill gaps in data in antimicrobial resistance research”.
From Inside to Outside – Transitioning out of Correctional Facilities in BC
This webinar will explore evidence for treatment continuity for people who are incarcerated in British Columbia (BC) Provincial Correctional Centres.