The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a global pandemic as announced by World Health Organization (WHO, March 11th 2020). It is caused by SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, a virus strain never previously identified in humans. As of Jan.11, 2021, COVID-19 has infected 90.9 million people, and caused the death of 1.95 million people globally. In Canada, 672,931 people…
NCCID has assembled a glossary of terms related to regulatory processes for ensuring the safety and efficacy of drug therapies, including new drugs and new therapeutic applications for existing drugs. The aim is to increase understanding of these terms and transparency on related policies that protect Canadians.
This NCCID Disease Debrief provides Canadian public health practitioners and clinicians with up-to-date reviews of essential information on COVID-19 for Canadian public health practice.
NCCID has created two infographics for shelters and other congregate settings. The first two documents describe personal health protection and the other answers five questions on COVID-19 testing. The information comes from medical officers of health in Nova Scotia. Resources
NCCID has curated a list of substance use harm-reduction resources. They provide relevant substance use information that aims to increase access to harm reduction supplies and programming to support people who are using substances and prevent sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections and other harmful outcomes. NCCID has also put together the following list of sexually…
UPB News Agency – Medellín (COL). Researchers from the Pontificial Bolivarian University (UPB), with officials from the Health Secretariat of Medellín, review modeling scenarios weekly to adjust the actions and plans of the city, in relation to the pandemic. This group, led by Dr. Zulma Rueda, PhD in Epidemiology, has been actively working with researchers…
NCCID joined the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) to produce a podcast episode focused on Indigenous Midwifery during COVID-19. The episode, a conversation with Carol Couchie and Claire Dion Fletcher, co-chairs of NACM, discusses how COVID-19 has impacted indigenous midwifery. Topics include: Recommendations for maternity and out-of-hospital care, Patient relationships and social distancing,…
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NCCID continues to contribute resources for public health practitioners during the current COVID-19 pandemic. We’re excited and grateful that MPH Online has ranked Infectious Questions in their top 30 public health podcasts of 2020. As we continue producing episodes of Infectious Questions during this challenging time for public health, we understand the massive physical and…
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a recognized global public health threat. Integrated, One Health based surveillance of AMR and antimicrobial use (AMU) must underpin efforts to protect human, animal, and crop health. In 2014, the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) published a report assessing AMR/AMU surveillance in Canada along with recommendations to address gaps…
Winnipeg, MB March 14th and 15th, 2019 Sexually transmitted and blood borne infection (STBBI) rates—including syphilis, gonorrhea, HBV, HCV, and HIV—are rapidly increasing in the Prairie provinces. Public health professionals are struggling to set programmatic priorities and identify the best interventions to suit the epidemiological context to decrease the burden of infections. Currently in the…
On January 22nd and 23rd, 2019, the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) brought together stakeholders from human health and animal health/agri‐food to discuss an overarching vision and a common approach to One Health surveillance in Canada, and to identify what needs to be done to…
