Measuring and Monitoring Healthcare-Associated Infections: A Canadian Collaboration to Better Understand the Magnitude of the Problem

Affiliations

• ¹ Senior program manager at the Canadian Patient Safety Institute. Anne is responsible for advancing patient safety through supporting national and regional partnerships and coordinating initiatives, including CPSI's infection prevention and control national strategy.
• ² The public health medical advisor at the Public Health Agency of Canada and a lecturer at the University of Ottawa/The Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Amaratunga is an infectious diseases and internal medicine physician; her work at PHAC focuses on hospital-acquired infections, including Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program data.
• ³ A Manager at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Chantal leads the Indicator Research and Development team at CIHI and is passionate about improving health system performance.
• ⁴ The medical director of infection prevention and control at McGill University Health Centre, chairs the AMMI Canada Hospital Epidemiology Committee and is a member of the Government of Canada's Expert Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance.
• ⁵ The executive director of AMMI Canada, the national specialty association that represents physicians, clinical microbiologists and researchers specializing in the fields of medical microbiology and infectious diseases.
• ⁶ The executive director of IPAC Canada, a national, multidisciplinary, voluntary association of infection prevention and control professionals with 21 chapters across the country dedicated to the health of Canadians by promoting excellence in the practice of infection prevention and control.
• ⁷ A director of IPAC Canada and chair of the IPAC Canada Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology Interest Group. Jennifer is an infection control professional with Alberta Health Services.
• ⁸ Has been a patient champion with Patients for Patient Safety Canada since 2009. Her areas of interest include patient safety, patient engagement, infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship. Kim recently co-authored a paper that provides an overview of patient advisors' perspectives on the state of antimicrobial resistance and stewardship in Canada.
• ⁹ A senior epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada and is responsible for the analysis of Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program data.
• ¹⁰ The past president of AMMI Canada. Caroline is a pediatric infectious diseases consultant, medical microbiologist and professor in the Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on preventing infections from the hospital to community, particularly for vulnerable populations.
• ¹¹ Provincial director of medical device reprocessing for the Nova Scotia Health Authority and past president of IPAC Canada. Suzanne has taken a leadership role to improve the practice of infection prevention and control, including provincial surveillance, best practice guidelines and policy, and fostering a high level of competency for infection control professionals.