Public Health Agency of Canada

Vaccine safety in Canada.

Have you ever wondered if vaccines are safe? Watch this video to follow the journey that every vaccine goes on before it is used in Canada.

Presents a gateway to immunization information including vaccine safety, influenza/flu shot information, immunization schedules, the Canadian Immunization Guide, and FluWatch.

This data blog presents statistics on suicide mortality, suicidal ideation, and self-inflicted injury hospitalizations in Canada. The economic burden of suicide and self-harm is highlighted, as are age and sex differences.

This data blog presents statistics on suicide mortality, plans, thoughts, and attempts, and self-inflicted injury hospitalizations in Canada. Socio-demographic differences are highlighted.

COVID Alert is Canada's free exposure notification application. COVID Alert helps us break the cycle of infection. The application can let people know of possible exposures before any symptoms appear.

About coronaviruses, symptoms of infection, how coronaviruses are diagnosed and treatment for coronavirus infection.

What you, and what communities can do to lower the spread of COVID-19 in settings including social services, workplaces, outdoors, community, religious, transport and remote and Indigenous communities.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice (the HPCDP Journal) is the monthly, online scientific journal of the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The journal publishes articles on disease...

Outlines surveillance case definitions for COVID-19 and provides instructions on reporting to the national level. Surveillance case definitions are provided for the purpose of standardized case classification and reporting to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Colouring pages that show what children can do to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

A guide to support ethics deliberation and decision-making in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the various transition phases that will occur over the course of the pandemic.

Information on demographics and outcomes for reported COVID-19 cases in First Nations communities.

Data products about the epidemiological, social and economic dimensions of the outbreak. Includes datasets, dashboards, statistics, analyses, trends, charts and maps. Also includes a list of locations where people may have been exposed to the virus.

Mathematical modelling of COVID-19 pandemic which uses mathematical equations to estimate how many cases of a disease may occur in the coming weeks or months.

This document provides guidance specific to the COVID-19 pandemic in outpatient and ambulatory care settings. Outpatient and ambulatory care settings are defined here as those providing health care on an outpatient basis and can include hospital-based and non-hospital based clinics, physician...

Here you will find information regarding Acts and Regulations associated with the Public Health Agency of Canada, including COVID-19 Emergency Orders in Council (OIC) pursuant to section 58 of the Quarantine Act.

This page presents detailed information on Canada's whole-of-government actions to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.

To understand this new disease, we need to advance research and technology development in order to slow, and eventually stop the spread of this infection. That is why the Government of Canada has mobilized Canada's research and scientific communities in response to the spread of COVID-19 at the...

In order to develop technical guidance to support F/P/T public health authorities and front-line clinicians in health care settings responding to the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, a number of assumptions were taken to develop interim guidance documents.