This webinar describes the features of primary care models in non-traditional settings that may improve accessibility and appropriateness of care for people experiencing homelessness.
Webcasts
Fall and Winter Respiratory Illnesses 2024-2025 webinar
This moderated, live webinar discusses the current vaccine landscape in Canada and provide an overview of the latest recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), seasonal influenza, and COVID-19 for the 2024-2025 respiratory virus season.
Infectious Questions: A public health perspective on shelters
The podcast mini series expands upon NCCID’s Shelters and Public Health: A Winter Institute, by featuring interviews with experts on topics related to shelters, halfway houses, harm reduction and social determinants.
First Nations Data Governance and Public Health Surveillance in Canada: Insights, Lessons, and Future Direction
The seminar introduces participants to First Nations’ experiences, challenges, priorities and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to data management and public health surveillance.
Speakers discuss First Nations’ vision for data sovereignty and how the future network of Regional Information Governance Centres (RIGCs) could enhance public health surveillance mechanisms and processes for First Nations.
CAN AMS! Building an Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee in Long-term Care
This webinar discusses the experiences of two long-term care facilities in Saskatchewan who were each tasked with developing an antimicrobial stewardship committee.
One Health Approach to Risk Assessment
This seminar will discuss the scope and importance of One Health in Canada, as well as guidance and best practices within the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) One Health Approach to Risk Assessment (OHARO) Framework.
Genomics for Public Health Surveillance
Genomics is at the forefront of public health surveillance and has been widely applied to tracking infectious diseases. From identifying novel, emerging, and circulating pathogens and variants; tracking the spread and behaviour of pathogens; to monitoring vaccine effectiveness; genomics plays a crucial role in infectious disease surveillance for informing public health priorities and interventions.
CAN AMS! Three Can-Do Outlooks on AMS
Join this engaging session highlighting opportunities for antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in human, animal, and environmental health domains. NCCID and AMMI Canada welcome leaders in AMS from across Canada for this launch of the ‘CANAMS!’ series.
Advancing the Role of Death Investigations for Surveillance
This seminar will feature a discussion about how data from death investigations are used for surveillance activities to inform strategies that reduce preventable death.
HIV and syphilis in the Prairies: Intersecting epidemics
This webinar investigates how alarming developments can occur at a time when highly effective tools are available to prevent and treat both HIV and syphilis. Speakers describe the Prairies’ intersecting HIV and syphilis crises, provide insights into social and structural factors contributing to increased transmission, and propose strategies to prevent, diagnose and treat infections.
CWN-NCCID Wastewater-Based Surveillance Program
As the first year of the CWN-NCCID Wastewater-based Surveillance (WBS) Program comes to an end in March this year, CWN and NCCID overviewed our WBS program.
Advancing the Practice of Wastewater Surveillance
Please join us for the sixth seminar of the Surveillance Advances seminar series entitled “Advancing the practice of wastewater surveillance”, on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (ET). This seminar will feature a discussion about COVID and wastewater surveillance in Quebec.