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With measles outbreaks, avian influenza and syphilis and HIV on the rise, Canada needs to strengthen its disease surveillance ...
Its leadership was indispensable during the COVID-19 pandemic, alerting the world to the global health emergency, providing countries with crucial public health guidance, coordinating access to ...
The busy summer travel season is here and many Canadians plan a European holiday. Europe is a popular choice for Canadians.
Pay attention, Canada! Our delegate at 68th World Health Assembly in Geneva, May 2015. Photo: PAHO-WHO Flickr. The World Health Organization has had a bad five or six years.
What value is the World Health Organization to Canada? It’s a question I am asked. And, as a Canadian living in Geneva, working as special advisor to WHO’s director-general, my answer is ...
Canada will start shipping 800 vials of an experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization on Monday to combat the deadly viral outbreak in Africa.
World Health Organization Responds To Coronavirus NPR's Michel Martin speaks with public health scholar Kelley ... She is a professor of global health governance at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
As Canada’s measles outbreak continues to grow, the country is at risk of losing its measles elimination status — a bar set by the World Health Organization. That could have implications for ...
An influential Canadian doctor and top adviser to the World Health Organization has come under fire for controversial comments downplaying the risk of airborne spread of the coronavirus and ...