| 2) Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships Opinion1 #714659 Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with partner organizations and agencies. |
- This would include: the key national agencies (Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada, Statistics Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, National Research Council) and research-supporting bodies such as the four mathematics institutes, the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Additionally, provincial public health institutions and health authorities, other national-scale pandemic-related groups (Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN), Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies, Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (CoVaRR-Net), National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID), Covid-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF)), pandemic-focused institutes (Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society (PIPPS), University of Toronto Institute for Pandemics, McMaster Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats (https://globalnexus.mcmaster.ca/), York Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, response, and Governance Institute (Y-EMERGE), Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling (CDM)) and local public health agencies would be engaged.
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