Fig. 2: Pan-Canadian Public Health Network (PHN) structure. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 2: Pan-Canadian Public Health Network (PHN) structure.

From: Mobilization of science advice by the Canadian federal government to support the COVID-19 pandemic response

Fig. 2: Pan-Canadian Public Health Network (PHN) structure.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

The 17-member PHN Council is co-chaired by the Chief Public Health Officer and a provincial or territorial Chief Medical Officer of Health and is accountable to the Conference of Deputy Ministers of Health. The Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health (a technical advisory forum composed of the Chief Public Health Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Health from provincial, territorial, and Indigenous health authorities) and three Steering Committees (each dedicated to a PHN area of focus)—(i) Healthy People and Communities, (ii) Communicable and Infectious Disease, and (iii) Public Health Infrastructure—support the PHN Council. Note: reporting relationships are depicted in solid lines, while supporting relationships are depicted in dashed lines.

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