Welcome to NCCID
WHAT'S NEW
ICID and PHAC renew commitment to NCCID
National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases will continue keeping Canadian public health practitioners up to date on infectious disease research and knowledge for at least another five years thanks to a $7.5 million funding agreement between International Centre for Infectious Diseases (ICID) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
“NCCID will continue to inform public health practitioners, policy makers and community-based organizations about the latest developments in infectious disease, as well as facilitate and build knowledge exchange networks between these groups and academics and researchers,” says Dr. Margaret Fast, NCCID scientific director. “Our work ultimately informs public policy and better equips public health practitioners in their role of preventing and controlling emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. We are grateful for the renewed commitment from the Public Health Agency of Canada.” READ MORE.
FEATURE ARTICLE
Lyme disease: A tick transmitted bacterial disease of growing importance in Canada (PDF)
In this special
issue of the Purple Paper on Lyme disease, Dr. Harvey Artsob, former Director of the Zoonotic Diseases and Special
Pathogens program at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) of the
Public Health Agency of Canada in Winnipeg, discusses the history and future of Lyme disease in Canada. READ MORE.
WHO WE ARE
The National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) is one of six centres funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The six centres form a network across Canada, each hosted by a different institution and focusing on a different topic in public health.
Our primary functions are:
- Knowledge synthesis, translation and exchange to incorporate evidence from research and experience into policy and practice
- Identification of knowledge gaps in research and practice
- Network development among the NCCs and other existing networks and organizations to support the use of evidence in decision –making and the various governance structures for public health.
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