Program directory · Public Health Agency of Canada

Laboratory Science Leadership and Services

Department

Public Health Agency of Canada

Program code

BVQ01 (PHAC)

Core responsibility

Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The purpose of the Program is to ensure scientific expertise, capability, and capacity are ready for a timely, coordinated response to known and emerging infectious disease threats posing a risk to the health of people in Canada. The Program provides national public health laboratory leadership and enables evidence-informed public health action through the development, implementation, and transfer of innovative approaches to advance testing & diagnostic services; laboratory-based surveillance; pandemic and outbreak preparedness & response; and basic & applied research, including pre-clinical medical countermeasure development. To fulfill its purpose, the Program engages with Federal, Provincial, and Territorial and international public health counterparts, as well as stakeholders representing Indigenous, regional, community, healthcare, academic, and industry perspectives to strengthen national and global public health laboratory response capacity. The Program is also responsible for the safe and secure operation of the only containment and testing facility in Canada for Risk Group 4 human pathogens.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.