In 2020, the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) quickly adapted to developing public health needs for COVID-19 evidence. We host completed and in-progress research evidence in our Rapid Review Repository and complete rapid reviews through our Rapid Evidence Service. As 2021 begins, we will continue to support the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic by: 

• maintaining the Rapid Review Repository as new evidence is added;
• continuing to receive requests from public health decision makers and complete rapid reviews on public health priority issues through the Rapid Evidence Service;
• shifting our focus to living reviews on priority topics for public health; you can help inform these topics by completing this survey; and
• finalizing two systematic reviews on important public health COVID-19 topics and convening an expert consensus panel to develop recommendations for practice informed by the evidence. 

Stay tuned for updates!

• The NCCMT’s Rapid Evidence Service conducts rapid reviews on priority public health topics related to COVID-19.
  • Inform our priority questions! Please complete this survey to help us prioritize questions for public health that require regularly updated, synthesized evidence to inform decisions.
  • Click here to access our updated review on the risk of COVID-19 transmission in schools and daycares.
  • Click here to access our recent review on the risk of COVID-19 transmission in acute care settings.
  • Click here to access our updated review on the risk of COVID-19 transmission in long-term care settings.
  • Click here to access the updated review on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security.
• The NCCMT’s Rapid Review Repository hosts in-progress and completed public health reviews on COVID-19 conducted by Canadian organizations and researchers. 
  • We want to hear from you! Is your organization working on or has it completed a review on COVID-19? Click here to share your work with other organizations and reduce research duplication.
  • Click here to explore reviews in the rapid review repository.
• The COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision making (COVID-END) is a time-limited network that brings together more than 50 organizations who have come together to help support those who are supporting decision makers during the pandemic.
  • Click here to access the recording from COVID-END’s recent webinar: An introduction to COVID-END resources.
  • Click here to learn about upcoming COVID-END webinars.
  • Click here to sign up for the COVID-END listserv to learn about and take part in new developments in COVID-19 research. 

Please note that not all this information is available in both official languages because the source of the information is not subject to the Official Languages Act.

An Introduction to Public Health Ethics

January 27, 2021
1:00–2:00 pm (EST) (webinar presented in English)

January 28, 2021
2:00–3:00 pm (EST) (webinar presented in French)

The National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) has developed an online course to support capacity building in the field of public health ethics. This webinar, presented in partnership with the NCCMT, will introduce the NCCHPP’s online course in public health ethics, including its development and an overview of the content. We will then pass the microphone to a health professional who will discuss the ethical challenges she has faced in professional practice, as well as her experience in taking the course.

Click here to register for the January 27 session (presented in English).

Click here to register for the January 28 session (presented in French).

Click here to learn more and to register for the course. 

 

Early Childhood Development (in partnership with DELI) 

February 11, 2021
1:30–3:00 pm (EST)

Join Dr. Anthony Levinson and Kalpana Nair, PhD, from McMaster University, as they discuss the Early Years Check-In (EYCI) and its companion web-based resource, Play&Learn. Designed for parents of children ages 18 months to 6 years, the EYCI helps parents quickly identify concerns about their child’s development across four domains: social and emotional, language, movement, and thinking and learning. Parents and early years’ service practitioners can use the EYCI as a discussion aid to foster dialogue about early child development. This will create opportunities to build relationships as well as provide education and support to parents to foster their child’s development. 

Click here to register.

 

The Tool for Assessing the Effects of Local Intersectoral Action

February 25, 2021
2:00–3:00 pm (EST) (webinar presented in English)

February 24, 2021
2:00–3:00 pm (EST) (webinar presented in French)

The Tool for Assessing the Effects of Local Intersectoral Action is an interactive online tool that uses timeline mapping to support assessment of the impacts of local intersectoral action in living environments. It was developed in collaboration with the Montreal Coalition of Neighbourhood Round Tables, Communagir and the Tamarack Institute.

Join Angèle Bilodeau, from the School of Public Health at the University of Montreal, Marie-Pier St-Louis, from the Canada Research Chair in Community Approaches and Health Inequalities (CACIS) and their collaborator, Gillian Kranias, for an introduction to this tool.

This webinar will be presented in partnership with the NCCHPP, the NCCDH and the NCCMT.

Click here to register for the February 24 session (presented in French).

Click here to register for the February 25 session (presented in English).

The NCCMT hosts four knowledge repositories to share knowledge on what works in public health.

Explore the selections below for methods, tools and research to support you in your public health practice.

COVID-19 Rapid Evidence Reviews

• Rapid Review: Performance and Feasibility of Rapid COVID-19 Tests
• How can the health system optimize public compliance with public health interventions?

Health Evidence™

• Tai chi for essential hypertension: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
• Universal screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection: A rapid review

The Registry of Methods and Tools

• Evidence-Informed Decision Making Checklist
• A planning tool for priority setting

Public Health +

• Changes in Cigarette Consumption With Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes Among Smokers With Psychiatric Conditions or Socioeconomic Disadvantage: 3 Randomized Clinical Trials
• Reducing Recreational Sedentary Screen Time: A Community Guide Systematic Review

Please note that not all this information is available in both official languages because the source of the information is not subject to the Official Languages Act.

The six National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCPH) promote the use of scientific research and acquired experience to strengthen public health practices, programs and policies in Canada.

Click here to learn about the work of each National Collaborating Centre (NCC).

View the information and resources below to learn about how each NCC has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic:

• From the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH):  
  • Equity-informed responses to COVID-19
• From the ​National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH): 
  • Recent webinar: COVID-19 management in personal services settings: Lessons learned from a nail salon outbreak. Click here to access the webinar recording.
  • Environmental Health Resources for the COVID-19 Pandemic  
  • December Research Scan with COVID-19 Sections
• From the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID): 
  • COVID-19 models for the Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Podcast: “Infectious questions: What health professionals need to know about 2019-nCoV and COVID-19”
  • The Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network
  • Recent Webinar: One Infection, Four Continents & Eight Countries: The psychosocial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to access the recording for the recent webinar. 
• From the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH): 
  • ­­Knowledge Resources & Publications
• From the National Collaborating Centre for Health Public Policy (NCCHPP):​ 
  • Public Health Ethics and COVID-19: Selected Resources

• The Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health, is accepting applications for an online course. Click here to learn about their End of Grant Knowledge Translation Course. 
• Ontario’s Excellence through Quality Improvement Project (E-QIP) is hosting a data literacy webinar series. Click here to learn more and to register.

Please note that not all this information is available in both official languages because the source of the information is not subject to the Official Languages Act.