The Public Health Map Generator is a Gold Medal winner of the GTEC 2006 Distinction Awards Program and Gala in the category:
Group 1: Federal Awards: Service Delivery to Citizens & Businesses
The Public Health Map Generator is a web-based mapping tool designed specifically for public health professionals to enable them to quickly and easily visualize their local health data on a map.
The Public Health Map Generator was developed by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Program of the Public Health Agency,
Making sense of mountains of public health data is a challenge facing thousands of public health professionals across Canada. Although geographical information system mapping has proven useful in this regard, its use is still not widespread: commercial software tools are proprietary, expensive and ften require special expertise. A unique, easy-to-use, web-based Public Health Map Generator service is noe available - at no charge - from the Public Health Agency of Canada, making it easy to visualize and correlate spatial data to help meet the public health needs of Canadians. A picture is worth a thousand words - a map can be priceless!
- Integrated Public Health Information System (i-PHIS), Health Services I & IT Cluster, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care is a Gold Medal winner of the GTEC 2006 Distinction Awards Program and Gala in the category: Group IV: National Awards: Cross-Jurisdictional Partnerships.
Ontario's integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) is a secure province-wide, integrated data and surveillance system that is critical for reporting and managing communicable diseases and outbreaks. It was born out of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, which revealed the weaknesses in public health infrastructure and the limitations of existing information systems to provide fast access to detailed information. Through a partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Ontario has now developed a comprehensive Outbreak Management module, capable of handling the next outbreak. With the support of PHAC, iPHIS was fully implemented in all 36 Public Health Units in Ontario by December 2005. It provides immediate, essential information for public health care providers. It provides access to near real-time reporting data for 75 Reportable and Communicable diseases in one centralized system. The Communicable Disease and Outbreak Management system tracks exposures to infectious diseases and manages quarantines. iPHIS is an e-Health transformation and an important step towards the development of the pan-Canadian Public Health Solution and the Electronic Health Record.
- Canadian Conference on the Public's Health
PHAC is pleased to support the first Canadian Conference on the Public's Health and the Law, taking place in Toronto, Ontario (Canada) from November 5-7, 2006.
The goal of the conference is to promote an enhanced understanding of the application of various legal and policy instruments in public health, and to foster professional and inter-sectoral linkages across disciplines. The conference is an important milestone for individuals who are interested, and affected by, the international, federal and provincial legal frameworks which govern public health, and in making these frameworks functionally interoperable.
Public Health Agency of Canada/Canadian Public Health Association Health Human Resources Awards
The Canadian Public Health Association’s Annual Conference is held in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Population and Public Health and the Canadian Institute for Health Information –Canadian Population Health Initiative. In the spirit of that partnership and due to the increased attention to public health human resources over the past several years we are pleased to announce the following Partnered Awards.
With the support of the Public Health Agency of Canada, awards for innovation in public health practice recognize the efforts of one
individual and one organization to translate research or knowledge into a new product, practice, or strategy for public health workforce
development or program delivery, including the preparation of individuals for practice. The individual award recipient must be a member
of the CPHA; the organization recipient must be associated with the practice of public health in Canada, and may include government
programs and local health jurisdictions.
The two-year Canadian Field Epidemiology Program has recently doubled
its annual intake of Field Epis from 5 to 10. These public health professionals learn outbreak investigation and environmental health risk assessment skills responding to local/provincial/territorial requests for assistance acrossCanada and around the world. Whether it's setting up surveillance in Pakistan after a devastating earthquake or interviewing cases to find the source of an outbreak, the Field Epi's motto is "training through service". Tune into our monthly accredited CFEP seminars to hear Field Epis describe their experiences.
Jointly issued by the CIHR-Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) and the PHAC-Office of Public Health Practice (OPHP), the purpose of this awards program is to strengthen public health capacity in Canada, by supporting the current and next generation of public health policy makers and practitioners. The program will thus build capacity for effective knowledge translation and use of research evidence by the public health system.
Skills Enhancement for Public Health has recently changed its name from Skills Enhancement for Health Surveillance. This name change reflects our Program’s new direction that will allow us to expand in the future to provide public health professionals with continuing education opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills to support evidence-based public health practice and to help practitioners to meet
the public health core competencies. As the Program continues to expand, we have recently launched the first in a series of specialty modules; Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases. An Outbreak Management & Investigation module will be released in January 2006. Registration is now open for modules being offered starting January 2006.
Public Health Agency Of Canada Launches Valuable Public Health Tool
The Office of Public Health Practice expands its mission from one focussed on health surveillance infrastructure to include the practice of public health more broadly. In particular, we have a new responsibility to provide leadership in the areas of public health human resource planning, public health law and knowledge transfer. What has happened to our existing programs? They are continuing.
The Canadian Integrated Public Health Surveillance Program
The Skills Enhancement Program continues to grow
The Canadian Field Epidemiology Program has increased in size and now starts its program year in September
The GIS Program continues to provide spatial data, tools and expertise to Public Health professionals, and its on-line collaborative community is more active than ever. In addition, the Program is expanding its role in Public Health GIS advancement through research and knowledge transfer.
September 20, 2005
For Immediate Release OTTAWA -
Public Health Agency Of Canada Launches Valuable Public Health Tool
The Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of State (Public Health), today officially launched the Public Health Map Generator, a new online mapping tool for Canadian public health professionals.
Speaking at the Canadian Public Health Association 96th Annual Conference in Ottawa, Minister Bennett said: "This will give public health professionals a powerful tool to help them track public health issues and visually synthesize large quantities of information. It will help health professionals increase their capacity for evidence-based decision-making and health planning."
For more information, contact publichealthpractice@phac-aspc.gc.ca 
or call toll free: 1-877-430-9995.
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