Hosted by: The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)’s Data, Surveillance and Foresight Branch (DSFB) and National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID).
Date and time: February 25, 2025 | 1:00 to 2:00 Eastern Time / 12:00 to 1:00 Central Time
Language: English
Introduction
Please join us on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, from 1-2pm ET, for the fifth seminar of the 2024-2025 Surveillance Advances season, “Vision 2030: Moving Data to Public Health Action.” Led by Dr. David Buckeridge with guidance provided by a Surveillance Expert Round Table, Vision 2030 is an aspirational report developed with extensive input from approximately 1,800 participants from coast to coast to coast.
This presentation will provide an overview of the Vision 2030 development, a depiction of a high-functioning public health surveillance ‘system of systems’ and showcase how some ongoing initiatives by public health partners in Canada are addressing the persistent challenges in public health and contributing toward achieving the vision.
Learning Objectives
- Gain insights into the methodology and efforts involved in developing a collaborative vision for public health surveillance in Canada by 2030
- Understand the vision components, including the desired states and characteristics of a high-functioning public health surveillance “system of systems”
- Recognize opportunities for actions that address the persistent challenges identified through the consultations and ongoing efforts that contribute to advancing Vision 2030
Speaker
1. Dr. David Buckeridge, Executive Scientific Director; Data, Surveillance and Foresight Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada. Professor; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health; Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine; School of Population and Global Health, McGill University. Chief Digital Health Officer; McGill University Health Centre.
David Buckeridge is the Executive Scientific Director of the Data, Surveillance and Foresight Branch at Public Health Agency of Canada. He is also a Professor at McGill University in Montreal, affiliated with Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Department of Medicine, and School of Population and Global Health, as well as the Chief Digital Health Officer for the McGill University Health Centre.
Dr. Buckeridge holds a M.D. from Queen’s University, a M.Sc. in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D. in Biomedical informatics from Stanford University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada with specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He is also the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Population Health Informatics. Dr. Buckeridge has consulted on surveillance to organizations such as the Public Health Agency of Canada, the US Center for Disease Control, the European Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization.
Moderators
- Robert Sager, NCCID
- Chia-Yu Lin, PHAC
Format
This seminar will be held on Zoom. The presentation will be 30 minutes followed by approximately 15 minutes for a discussion and question period from attendees. Presentation materials in English and French will be distributed through NCCID media channels.
Access Instructions
All instructions for the seminar series will be posted on the Zoom registration page and will be emailed to all registrants prior to the event.
Past Webinars
Surveillance Advances launched in September 2023 with a discussion about the foundational concepts of public health surveillance and the future opportunities that lie ahead. Subsequent seminars featured topics related to health inequalities (seminar 2), data science (seminar 3), maternal and newborn health (seminar 4), and injury surveillance (seminar 5). For a complete list of seminars and to view their recordings, please visit the Surveillance Advances webcasts page
Accreditation Statement
Surveillance Advances is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Surveillance Advances is also approved by the Council of Professional Experience for professional development hours for members of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors.
