First Nations Data Governance and Public Health Surveillance in Canada: Insights, Lessons, and Future Direction

The seminar introduces participants to First Nations’ experiences, challenges, priorities and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to data management and public health surveillance.

Speakers discuss First Nations’ vision for data sovereignty and how the future network of Regional Information Governance Centres (RIGCs) could enhance public health surveillance mechanisms and processes for First Nations.

Genomics for Public Health Surveillance

Genomics is at the forefront of public health surveillance and has been widely applied to tracking infectious diseases. From identifying novel, emerging, and circulating pathogens and variants; tracking the spread and behaviour of pathogens; to monitoring vaccine effectiveness; genomics plays a crucial role in infectious disease surveillance for informing public health priorities and interventions.

HIV and syphilis in the Prairies: Intersecting epidemics

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.

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.