Public heath agency's disease surveillance network needs major changes, expert panel says

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The panel found GPHIN had identified COVID appropriately, but found a need for a better approach to risk assessment at PHAC to identify the fires among the…

Conservative Health Critic MP Michelle Rempel Garner said the panel report is another example of the government’s lack of preparedness.

They said the GPHIN team is impressive and world-leading, but it is unclear who is supposed to triage the information to determine the real threats.Article content The panel found that without a dedicated risk-assessment team, the work of deciding what is and isn’t a major problem falls to the chief public health officer without any clear standards.

“The risk assessment office could also help establish stronger links in general to the national security community that can go beyond the strict exchange of intelligence.”The agency has previously been criticized for not issuing a specific GPHIN alert about COVID and leaving it buried inside a routine daily report.

The panelists said GPHIN is a world-leading system and Canada should continue to share information with the world. They said analysts should be encouraged to work with the peers in other countries and that GPHIN should expand its subscriber list to international groups.

 

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Duh

The Public Health Agency should be abolished and a more narrowly focused instituion created, perhaps headquartered outside of Ottawa.

You think so!? More importantly every single political party & politicians need same.

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