Public Health Agency of Canada

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is an External Advisory Body that provides the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) with independent, ongoing and timely medical, scientific, and public health advice in response to questions from PHAC relating to immunization. This...

Breast milk is the best food for newborn babies. The Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada and the World Health Organization recommend: breast milk only for feeding your baby from birth to 6 months and continuing to breastfeed for up to 2 years or more after introducing solid foods.

The Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) Program is a national community-based early intervention program funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. AHSUNC focuses on early childhood development for First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and their families living...

People with COVID-19 do not always recognize their early symptoms. Even if you do not have symptoms now, it is possible to transmit COVID-19 before you start showing symptoms or without ever developing symptoms. You need to quarantine (self-isolate) for 14 days at home when you may have been...

Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) is known around the world for its scientific excellence. We work with public health partners in Canada and abroad to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Main functions are: research, lab-based surveillance, emergency preparedness and...

This guidance supports high quality investigations that will contribute to public health’s collective understanding of COVID-19 transmission in all types of school settings and the utility of mitigation measures implemented. A systematic approach to outbreak response, including an investigation...

This document outlines the recommended goals, objectives, and activities for COVID-19 surveillance in Canada. These guidelines are based on current available scientific evidence and expert opinion and are subject to change as new information becomes available. They should be read in conjunction...

This section provides news and information about the evolution of Canada's Health Human Resource Strategy, which aims to ensure that Canadians have access to the health providers they need both now and in the future.

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...

COVID-19 information for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health care providers.

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases.

Canada and Yukon agree that immediate action and collaboration was and continues to be needed among governments to expand virtual care services to support improved access to publicly insured health care services for Canadians and to work together to further accelerate the use of virtual care...

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice (the HPCDP Journal) is a bilingual, peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch. COVID-19 Rapid Release Articles

This guidance has been adapted for Canadian use from the WHO document entitled "Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) when COVID-19 disease is suspected – Interim guidance - 13 March 2020". This guidance is informed by currently available scientific evidence and expert...

Detailed results from the Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) for the ArriveCAN Proof of Vaccination Recognition. ArriveCAN is a digital platform that is being used to collect travel and COVID-19-related health information from individuals traveling to Canada. By automating the scanning of...

With new, more transmissible variants of the COVID-19 virus in countries around the world, the Government of Canada continues to take a data-driven and precautionary approach to its border measures for travellers entering Canada. The Government of Canada's phased approach to easing border...

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) released new modelling projections of the number of opioid-related deaths that may occur over the course of the coming months. The results of the model suggest that, under some scenarios, the number of opioid-related deaths may remain high or may even...

Fully vaccinated travellers entering Canada during COVID-19.The border changes for August 9. - American citizens and permanent residents of the United States, who currently reside in the U.S. and who qualify as fully vaccinated travellers, will be able to enter Canada for discretionary travel...

We are asking you to share, on your social media channel, your reason for getting vaccinated. Sharing your vaccination story can increase vaccine confidence amongst people in Canada. As more people get vaccinated, our communities become safer and we can all get back to the people, places and...