Practical guidance for building respectful and meaningful relationships throughout the health research process. For additional reading, tools and resources supporting this three-part guide series, download the shared Resource List below.
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Introduction to Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility
Practical considerations for fostering cultural safety and cultural humility in health research. For additional reading, tools and resources supporting this three-part guide series, download the shared Resource List below.
Knowledge Mobilization Approaches and Strategies for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Communities
Practical approaches for culturally relevant and meaningful knowledge mobilization with First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. For additional reading, tools and resources related to the three-part guide series, download the shared Resource List below.
Navigating The Future of Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza in Canada: A National Foresight Analysis on Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Readiness
In this report, foresight analysis provides a structured approach to examining how emerging developments—rather than established trends alone—may shape future system performance. It explores the dimensions that will influence influenza vaccine policymaking and key public health decisions in the future by identifying emerging opportunities and risks associated with societal, geopolitical and technological change.
The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Pan-Canadian Zoonoses Report (2013-2022)
The report reviews 10-year trends (2013–2022) for nationally notifiable zoonotic diseases in Canada and to highlight selected emerging and complex zoonotic disease threats. The review includes a number of vector-borne diseases, and other zoonoses such as hantavirus and rabies.
Gender-based and intimate partner violence, STBBIs, and public health
In the Canadian prairies, epidemics of HIV and syphilis are driven by a syndemic of houselessness, lived experience of colonization, substance use and violence and involvement with the justice system. These fact sheets build on NCCID’s recent work on shelters, incarceration, and HIV. The fact sheets explore the extent to which gender-based violence and houselessness are interconnected issues rooted in colonization, and outline how they increase vulnerability to HIV infection, particularly for Indigenous women.
Indigenous women, houselessness, and gender-based violence in Canada
In the Canadian prairies, epidemics of HIV and syphilis are driven by a syndemic of houselessness, lived experience of colonization, substance use and violence and involvement with the justice system. These fact sheets build on NCCID’s recent work on shelters, incarceration, and HIV. The fact sheets explore the extent to which gender-based violence and houselessness are interconnected issues rooted in colonization, and outline how they increase vulnerability to HIV infection, particularly for Indigenous women.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, Infectious Diseases, and Climate Change
This narrative review summarizes Canada’s progress in resolving drinking water advisories on federally-funded First Nations reserves (Canada’s Target 6.1.1 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6), as well as climate change threats to water safety. The findings emphasize the need for public health efforts focused on health equity, upholding Indigenous rights, and climate resilience.
Canadian Wastewater Survey (CWS): City of Winnipeg, Manitoba Modelling Report
Canadian Wastewater Survey (CWS): Modelling Report
This document shows the current level of SARS-CoV-2 in the wastewater in cities across the country. In the plots below, the horizontal axis displays the month, and the vertical displays the wastewater signal as SARSCoV-2 genome copies per ml (gcp/ml). The green and orange threshold lines display the historical 25th and 75th percentile, respectively. Information on how these values are calculated can be seen in Appendix 2: Technical Documentation. The current level compared to historical data and trends for each city are shown in the top left corner of each plot, and the key messages highlight recent important changes in the data.
Knowledge to Action Series Cost Effectiveness Use Case: The Cost-Benefits of Wastewater Surveillance in Urban Shelters
Knowledge to Action Series Cost Effectiveness Use Case: The Cost-Benefits of Wastewater Surveillance in Rural and Remote Communities
Rural and remote communities in Canada often face higher risks from infectious disease outbreaks due to limited access to timely testing and healthcare, multi-generational housing, and geographical isolation. Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) offers a community-wide, non-invasive solution to detect respiratory viruses like SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and RSV early, helping local clinics act quickly and efficiently. This use case explains the usefulness of wastewater-based surveillance in the rural and remote Canadian context. This summarizes the findings reported in the literature and the case example from the WBS program of the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay. Since its inception during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been monitoring viral spread in the region with minimal lab capacity. Community-led and grounded in OCAP principles, the program enables early warnings, supports clinical response, and conserves healthcare resources by reducing the need for widespread individual testing.