Séminaire SP / 19 juin 2025 - David L. Buckeridge (McGill university): Moving Data to Public Health Action - Canada's Vision 2030 and the Example of Serosurveillance

Séminaire de santé publique

Les séminaires de Santé publique sont coordonnés par le Département Santé publique, le BPH, Bordeaux Population Health - UMR 1219 et l'ISPED, Institut de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie et de Développement.

Jeudi 19 juin 2025 - 12h15 à 13h15
Amphi Louis - ISPED
Campus Carreire - université de Bordeaux
Ouvert à tous
En présentiel

Title: Moving Data to Public Health Action - Canada's Vision 2030 and the Example of Serosurveillance

Speaker: David L. Buckeridge, MD PhD FRCPC
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Population and Global Health
McGill University, Montréal (Québec), Canada

Bio:
David Buckeridge is a Professor in the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University in Montreal where he directs the Surveillance Lab, an interdisciplinary group that develops, implements, and evaluates novel computational methods and software for public health surveillance. He is also the Chief Digital Health Officer at the McGill University Health Center (MUHC) and the Director of Digital Health Research at the Research Institute of the MUHC. His research and practice focus on the informatics of health system monitoring and he holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Health Informatics and Data Science and is an Associate Member with the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila). He is also currently seconded part-time to the Public Health Agency of Canada as the Executive Scientific Director of the Data, Foresight and Surveillance Branch. Dr Buckeridge has a MD from Queen's University, a MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, a PhD in Biomedical informatics from Stanford University, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.
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Abstract:
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s federal public health agency initiated a comprehensive process to shape a national vision for public health surveillance - Vision 2030. This effort involved extensive consultation with Canadian public health professionals, input from an expert panel, international perspectives, and commissioned research papers. The process established a vision to address six key challenges, including the strategic use of technology, tools, platforms, and methods. Using serosurveillance as a case study, I will illustrate the identified challenges and demonstrate opportunities to enhance surveillance systems in alignment with the broader framework of Vision 2030.