Canadian FoodInspection Agency

Agence canadienned’inspection des aliments

www.inspection.gc.ca www.cahss.ca

Design effective disease surveillance and develop analytical tools and methods (e.g. disease modelling, cluster analysis, geo-epidemiology)

• Conduct epidemiological analysis of surveillance data from external sources

• Perform epidemiological and geospatial analysis• Evaluate the reliability of diagnostic tests

• Support development and policies of national and international guidelines/policies through scientific advice and discussions

Report Canada’s zoosanitary status to the OIE and international trading partners

Provide surveillance and epidemiological advice to decision makers and senior management within the CFIA Operations and Policy and Programs Branches

CFIA

Aquatic Animal Health Surveillance & Epidemiology

Need more information? Please contact: aquasurv@inspection.gc.ca

Our research � Quantitative model to assess

sensitivity on-farm clinical surveillance

� Epidemiological inference model to assess to which populations surveillance data can be extrapolated

� Evaluation of surveillance system sensitivity for reportable diseases at the country level

� Quality Assurance system for surveillance–identify critical control points from field to lab

� Model to evaluate the effect of sample characteristics on diagnostic test parameters

Design and coordinate national and regional evidence-based aquatic animal disease surveillance systems

Maintain and enhance expertise in the field of aquatic animal health surveillance within the Agency

Build and strengthen partnerships with academia, industry, government and Aboriginal groups in the field of aquatic animal surveillance

• Gather contextual, risk and surveillance evidence• Evaluate the sensitivity of national and regional

surveillance systems for emerging and regulated diseases

• Prepare and distribute surveillance reports• Design surveillance to evaluate, demonstrate

and support disease freedom status• Align with international standards and

guidelines as set by the OIE

Our scope

Our role � Facilitates access to

domestic and international markets

� Supports domestic and foreign aquatic animal disease control programmes

� Meets Canada’s international obligations to report disease occurrence to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)

� Canadian Watersheds, Specific Commodity and Industry

� Over 400 finfish, molluscs and crustaceans � Emerging and regulated diseases: reportable, immediately notifiable, annually notifiable

Targeted Risk-based Surveillance

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Resource Planning

Implementation and Delivery

ProgramReview

Plan and Analysis

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Scope and Goal (Why, what and how)

Apparent disease status(sporadic, endemic, exotic)

Communication

Risk Mapping

LEGENDRISK STATUS

R0 [No]R1 [Low]R1+ [Medium]R2 [High]

Our mandate

Diagnostic Testing

Syndromic Surveillance

PublicReporting

Routine Sampling

Scanning Surveillance