This webinar is presented with The Canadian Association for Immunization Research, Evaluation and Education (CAIRE). This webinar will explore how economic evidence, such as cost-effectiveness, is used to inform immunization policies in Canada. Participants will gain practical insights into interpreting economic findings and understanding their role in evidence-informed vaccination decision-making. Date and Time Thursday, March…
Stream: NCCID
Stewardship With a Human Touch: Handshake stewardship at the BC Children’s Hospital
Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at handshake stewardship rounds at BC Children’s Hospital, a novel way of making antimicrobial stewardship interactive, helpful and impactful.
Implementation Science in Action: Audit and Feedback to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care
Join us for a webinar highlighting how implementation science approaches can enhance antimicrobial stewardship interventions, using audit and feedback for antibiotic prescribing in primary care as a case study.
Lice and lethality: the re-emergence of louse-borne Bartonella quintana in Canada
This webinar will describe the re-emergence of B. quintana in Canada, examining transmission dynamics, disease burden, and emerging pathways of spread. The webinar will highlight how neglected bacterial infections linked to socioeconomic vulnerability remain concealed drivers of disease and mortality in Canada.
Using Vector and Climate Change Disease Modelling to Inform Surveillance and Response in a Changing Climate
This presentation explores vector modelling and what it tells us about potential vector range expansion due to climate change. It presents, in response to several vector modelling initiatives that include BC, an overview of several different active and passive tick and mosquito surveillance programs that the BC Centre for Disease Control has been engaged with. These projects include active tick surveillance in the province (field work and ticks off birds), passive tick surveillance in companion animals and mosquito surveillance on Vancouver Island and the Sea to Sky region.
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.
How do you build a digital STBBI testing program?
In this webinar, the Digital & Sexual Health Initiative team at the BC Centre for Disease Control and the University of British Columbia will share practical lessons from GetCheckedOnline, an effective digital STBBI testing program that has been operating in British Columbia for more than a decade.
Wastewater-Based Surveillance Program
A peer-to-peer learning program on wastewater-based surveillance for COVID-19, other pathogens and agents for public health practitioners.
Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in shelter settings: What it means and why it matters
In this webinar, participants learn to identify indoor environmental quality (IEQ) considerations for congregate settings, explore impacts of aspects of IEQ on the health of people in shelters and understand the connection between IEQ and the spread of infectious diseases.
Chikungunya
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arbovirus that causes Chikungunya fever. The virus was first detected in Tanzania in 1952. Since then, it has spread to over 110 countries: outbreaks have occurred in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The expansion of the range of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes because of climate change may further the spread of infection.
No Stewardship without Stewards: Resourcing Your Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Join us for a review of the challenges, successes, and best practices in resourcing antimicrobial stewardship programs.