Hosted by
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)’s Data, Surveillance and Foresight Branch (DSFB) and National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID).
Introduction
One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. Canada needs the capability for early detection, understanding and action to address One Health threats and reduce their potential wide-reaching impact.
The Public Health Agency of Canada, in collaboration with other multi-sectoral partners, has developed a One Health Approach to Risk Assessment (OHARA) Framework that aims to link existing risk assessment activities and inform the development of new activities where gaps exist. Within the Framework, guidance and best practices are provided to enhance collaboration.
The success of the approach requires awareness, endorsement and willingness to collaborate by all One Health partners. Senior leadership within all relevant sectors must be in agreement on the importance of increased collaboration across sectors and acknowledge that it may at times require effort from risk assessors and subject matter experts outside of the traditional mandates of their organizations for the sake of the greater good.
Resources
Learning Objectives
By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
- Understand the scope and importance of One Health
- Recognize challenges to multi-sectoral work and some best practices for overcoming these challenges
- Foster the ability to think outside organizational mandates for the greater good
Speaker
Dr. Sharon Calvin, DVM, MSc
Sharon is a veterinary epidemiologist who is currently the Head of One Health Risk Assessment at the Centre for Surveillance, Integrated Insights and Risk Assessment, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). She has worked in wildlife health, domestic animal health, and public health in Canada. Her expertise is in risk assessment, epidemiology, zoonotic diseases, and One Health approaches. Sharon worked for 11 years as a risk assessor at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, often focusing on risk assessment at the human-animal interface. She recently worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, leading efforts to characterize the risk landscape for the Quadripartite One Health Intelligence Scoping Study.
Moderators
- Wendy Xie, NCCID
- Louis Wong, DSFB
Format
This seminar will be held on Zoom. The presentation will be 30 minutes followed by approximately 20 minutes for a discussion and question period from attendees. Presentation materials in English and French will be distributed through NCCID media channels a few weeks after.
Access Instructions
All instructions for the seminar series will be posted on the Zoom registration page and will be emailed to all registrants prior to the event.
Accreditation Statement
Surveillance Advances is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Surveillance Advances is also approved by the Council of Professional Experience for professional development hours for members of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors.
