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| Industry | Medicine Pediatrics |
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| Founded | 1922 |
| Headquarters | Canada |
Key people | Mark Fieldman, MD President Jeff Critch, MD President-Elect Johanne Harvey, MD Vice-President Ruth Grimes, MD Past President |
| Website | cps |
TheCanadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is a national association ofpaediatricians.
As a voluntaryprofessional association, the CPS represents more than 3,000 paediatricians, paediatricsubspecialists, paediatricresidents, and other people who work with and care for children. The CPS is governed by an elected Board of Directors representing each province and territory.
The CPS is active in several major areas including professional education, advocacy, public education, surveillance and research. The organization is a partner of CANImmunize, avaccine passport application developed by theCanadian Public Health Association at theOttawa Hospital Research Institute with funding from thePublic Health Agency of Canada.[1][2]
The CPS administers the Canadian Immunization Monitoring Program, Active (IMPACT), a national surveillance system forvaccine-preventable diseases andvaccine adverse events in 12 pediatric tertiary care centers across Canada.[3] IMPACT is funded by the Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases at thePublic Health Agency of Canada, with additional funding for surveillance for rotavirus and invasive meningococcal disease provided byGlaxoSmithKline,Merck,Novartis andPfizer.[4]
The CPS developed the Education Program for Immunization Competencies (EPIC), designed to educate health care providers on how to provide information about vaccinations to their patients.[5] During theCOVID-19 pandemic, information aboutCOVID-19 vaccines was added to the curriculum.
Funded by a $726,704 grant from thePublic Health Agency of Canada's Immunization Partnership Fund, the CPS organized a workshop and online education module onvaccine hesitancy to increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines.[6]
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