CANADIAN PAEDIATRIC SOCIETY

Published purpose

Health Science Consultants Surveillance is one of six core functions of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and provides information that supports other core functions including disease and injury prevention, health promoyion, health protection and emergency preparedness and response. PHAC works with provincial and territorial public health authorities to prevent, reduce or eliminate vaccine-preventable and respiratory infectious diseases, to reduce the negative impact of emerging and re-emerging respiratory infections and maintain public and professional confidence in immunization programs in Canada. Activities in support of this includes surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases (respiratory and non-respiratory). The contractor will provide pediatric hospital surveillance data for vaccine preventable disease (VPD) surveillance to conduct comprehensive and prospective monitoring of selected serious childhood conditions of public health importance, particularly vaccine-preventable diseases eliminated or under elimination/eradication, in the paediatric population in Canada. This includes data on all hospitalized cases and/or cases presentong to an emergency department of vaccine preventable diseases (Invasive pneumococcal disease, Invasive Haemophilus influenzae, Pertussis, Varicella, Invasive group A streptococcal disease, and Acute Flaccid Paralysis). The contractor will provide information and data to PHAC that supports its mandate in the surveillance of the paediatric population in Canada and assists in achieving its goals.