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…
REGISTRATION CLOSED A copy of this webinar is available upon request. Please contact NCCID Project Manager Harpa Isfeld-Kiely to learn more, or get in touch with our Centre via our general inbox. Date: April 18, 201812:30 – 1:30pm (CST) Description The National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID), in collaboration with Do Bugs Need Drugs? and other…
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REGISTRATION CLOSED A copy of this webinar is available upon request. Please contact NCCID Project Manager Harpa Isfeld-Kiely to learn more, or get in touch with our Centre via our general inbox. Date: November 29, 2017 Description The National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID), in collaboration with Do Bugs Need Drugs? and other national experts, was…
REGISTRATION CLOSED A copy of this webinar is available upon request. Please contact NCCID Project Manager Margaret Haworth-Brockman to learn more, or get in touch with our Centre via our general inbox. Date: October 12, 2017 Description The Public Health Agency of Canada, with support from the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, hosted this webinar on…
REGISTRATION CLOSED A copy of this webinar is available upon request. Please contact NCCID Project Manager Margaret Haworth-Brockman to learn more, or get in touch with our Centre via our general inbox. Date: April 10, 2017 Description This webinar was tailored for Public Health Agency of Canada public health officers (Canadian Public Health Service), field epidemiologists (Canadian…
The city of Vancouver played host to hundreds of TB experts at End TB 2017, a meeting of the International Union Against Tuberculosis (North American Region). The four-part NCCID “TB Talk” series features one-on-one conversations with experts who attended the meeting. The questions in these interviews originate from what the NCCID has heard from public health practitioners…
REGISTRATION CLOSED A copy of this webinar is available upon request. Please contact NCCID Project Manager Zeeshan Qadar to learn more, or get in touch with our Centre via our general inbox. Date: October 5, 2017 Description This webinar offered an overview to service providers and policy makers of the current Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP),…
REGISTRATION CLOSED A copy of this webinar is available upon request. Please contact NCCID Project Manager Zeeshan Qadar to learn more, or get in touch with our Centre via our general inbox. Date: September 19, 2017 Description The National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) continues its series of public health podcasts and webinars on refugee…
June 8, 2017 (Halifax) – The National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) and the Public Health Agency of Canada are pleased to greet representatives from across the Atlantic provinces today to discuss strategies for improving the use of antimicrobials such as antibiotics. Physicians, pharmacists and public health staff will share information on successes and…
