This podcast series explores the challenges, opportunities, and best practices surrounding First Nations data ownership, control, access, and possession.
Stream: NCCID
National Wastewater Monitoring Program
Wastewater has already been used to show early detection of COVID-19 in some Canadian jurisdictions prior to an increase of clinically diagnosed cases. As COVID-19 can be characterized by symptomatic and asymptomatic infection, it is important to identify the presence of undiagnosed cases to minimize the likelihood of outbreaks.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria fowleri is a type of single-celled organism called a free-living amoeba. It lives in soil and warm freshwater and is distributed worldwide. Naegleria fowleri is generally harmless to humans but can cause a deadly infection called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) if it reaches the brain.
From Sewers to Solutions: Transforming Public Health Through Wastewater Surveillance Success Stories
Over the past few years, wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has rapidly emerged as a valuable tool in public health, providing community-level insights on infectious diseases, substances of potential abuse and other agents of interest.
Measuring What Counts: Equity Prompts for Public Health Preparedness and Resilience
This guidance document encourages decision-making and action for pandemic preparedness and response that explicitly incorporate attention to structural and social determinants of health and address health inequities; and
Augments existing public health system resilience indicators to measure performance in addressing inequities and sustaining or enhancing equitable approaches now and in future outbreaks and pandemics.
Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults Infographic
The Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) management tool provides guidelines for treating CAP among adult patients in Manitoba. The tool integrates antimicrobial stewardship principles for optimizing antibiotic use by incorporating current evidence concerning the choice of drug, dose, delivery method, and duration of therapy for CAP.
Salmonella
Salmonella is a common gastroenteric infection that affects millions of individuals worldwide. Each year in Canada, over 88,000 people are infected with Salmonella. It is one of the top four causes of diarrheal illnesses globally, with cases ranging from mild to severe. More severe infections of Salmonella are rare, but can have life-threatening consequences.
What CAN Antibiograms Tell us? Microbiological insights for antimicrobial stewardship
The Canadian Antimicrobial Stewardship Webinars—or ‘CAN AMS!”—is a new webinar series focused on antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions. Leaders in AMS from across Canada share examples of what has been done to implement evidence-based interventions, with the goal to inspire what CAN be done to help slow the rise and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The series aims to:…
mpox
Mpox virus (formerly Monkeypox) is a zoonotic, double-stranded DNA virus, which also includes the variola virus (smallpox), cowpox virus, and vaccinia virus.
Recent research has reclassified the mpox virus into two distinct clades, now officially referred to as Clade I (formerly the Central African or Congo Basin clade) and Clade II (formerly the West African clade).
From Data to Action: Cancer Surveillance and Occupational Diseases
This seminar includes a presentation by Dr. Donna Turner on cancer surveillance. Then, Dr. Jeavana Sritharan and Dr. Paul Demers present on Ontario’s Occupational Disease Surveillance System (ODSS).
Making Prevention a Core Element of Our Response to Homelessness
The webinar explores the current response to homelessness in Canada, particularly funding and provision of emergency and crisis supports. Dr. Gaetz argues that from a public health perspective and with the goal of enhancing the well-being of people at risk of, or who have become homeless, we really need to focus more on prevention.
Canada’s Surveillance Efforts for HPAI in Dairy Cattle and Beyond
This seminar covers the status of the HPAI outbreak in US dairy cattle and other species. It is followed by a description of Canada’s surveillance and response plan, its collaborative multi-jurisdictional development, how it closely resembles the recently launched US surveillance plan and how this form of surveillance could be used for future outbreaks and disease detection on Canadian dairy farms and beyond.