This presentation will provide an overview of the findings from CANCOVID-Preg, a pan-Canadian surveillance program of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy. CANCOVID-Preg includes data on >40,000 pregnancies in Canada from 2020-2022 that were impacted by COVID-19 and was utilized over the course of the pandemic to guide public health and vaccination recommendations. With this data, we have described the impact on maternal and infant health associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy, elucidated the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 variants and maternal, pregnancy, and infant outcomes, and demonstrated the protective effect of vaccination in each variant period.
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Drop the Label: Penicillin Allergy de-Labelling is for Everyone
Pen-allergy de-labelling can be a powerful antimicrobial stewardship tool, clarifying options available to prescribers selecting the most appropriate antibiotic for their patients. Join leads in the BC-based multidisciplinary ‘Drop the Label’ initiative as they share successes and challenges in developing, implementing, and scaling up patient education and clinical tools to support prescribers serving people with potential antibiotic allergies.
How Primary Care Providers Can Support Immigrant and Refugee TB Clients
This webinar is part of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC’s) Communicable Diseases and Infection Control (CDIC) Webinar Series and is co-hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID).
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.
What CAN Antibiograms Tell us? Microbiological insights for antimicrobial stewardshipÂ
Antibiograms are convenient antimicrobial stewardship tools, readily available in most Canadian contexts, but remain underutilized by clinicians. Our speakers illustrate and discuss how to use and correctly interpret these data for optimizing antimicrobial use.
Vision 2030: Moving Data to Public Health Action
This presentation provides an overview of the Vision 2030 development, a depiction of a high-functioning public health surveillance ‘system of systems’ and showcases how some ongoing initiatives by public health partners in Canada are addressing the persistent challenges in public health and contributing toward achieving the vision.
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.Â
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.
Optimizing Antimicrobial Use Through the Respiratory Season in Children
This CAN AMS! webinar explores strategies to optimize antimicrobial use during the respiratory season in children.
Vaccine Safety Surveillance in Canada: Opportunities for Equity
This NCCID-CAIRE webinar will feature experts from Canada who discuss different approaches to vaccine safety surveillance currently used in Canada. Speakers will discuss the strengths and limitations of these systems through an equity lens, and explore ways to address current challenges in this regard.
Wastewater Monitoring in Northern and Remote Areas: The Eeyou Istchee Experience
This seminar will feature an overview of the work done to set up and maintain a wastewater monitoring system in Cree communities in Eeyou Istchee, located in northern Quebec.