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Western Canada Immunization Forum 2024

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

In person & live streamed

This event provides a forum for sharing scientific, policy, and operational lessons learned and to inform the planning and delivery of immunization programs. The forum can be attended by public health professionals, immunization providers, nurses, physicians, midwives, pharmacists, naturopathic physicians, program managers and leaders.

Program agenda (PDF)

Accredited by UBC CPD - the University of British Columbia Continuing Professional Development - Faculty of Medicine

 

March 6, 2024 - Western Canada Immunization Forum

Welcome video:

  • Dr. Monika Naus, Medical Director, Immunization & Vaccine Preventable Diseases Service
  • Elder Syexwaliya Ann Whonnock
  • Video messages from Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
  • Welcome from Dr. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer, BC

Plenary: Impact of the Pandemic on Immunization:

Impact of the pandemic on vaccine uptake, attitudes, and future immunization strategies (PDF) - Dr. Shannon MacDonald, Associate Professor on Nursing at the University of Alberta.


Panel discussion: Impact of the pandemic on immunization across Western Canada:


  • Dr. Shannon MacDonald, Associate Professor on Nursing at the University of Alberta
  • Kari Bergstrom, Director of Immunization with the Public and Rural Health Division of Alberta
  • Morag Granger, Public Health Nursing Consultant with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health
  • Dr. Davinder Singh, Medical Health Officer for Manitoba's Southern Health-Sante Sud region
  • Dr. Sudit Ranade, Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Yukon Territory
  • Dr. Monika Naus, Medical Director of Immunization & Vaccine Preventable Diseases Services at BCCDC

Morning poster presentations:

Plenary: Main Auditorium: Building Trust in Vaccines: (video): Practical ways to inoculate against misinformation for you and your patients – Ian Roe, Content Strategist, BCCDC & Renata Mares, Public Health Consultant


Plenary: Immunization in Special Populations (video)

Afternoon poster presentations:

Additional posters:

Plenary: New Vaccines, New Schedules


Closing Remarks (video) - Dr. Monika Naus

 

March 1, 2023

Session 2

Poster presentations

Video of poster presentations


PDF – Influence of prenatal care provider type on routine vaccination in first two years of life in British Columbia - Kate Twohig


PDF Characterizing Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Related Pediatric Disease Severity in Canada – Nirma Vadlamudi


Session 3: Best Practices – VIDEO

 

PDF - Creating a Positive Vaccination Experience with CARD: How to play your Best Hand – Dr. Annie Taddio


Commentary and feedback from the field - Annie Lau


Session 4: Vaccine Safety – What can we learn from… – VIDEO

 

PDF – Passive Surveillance - Dr. Monika Naus

 

PDF – Active Surveillance – IMPACT and CANVAS – Dr. Julie Bettinger

 

PDF – Administrative Data Linkages – Dr. Naveed Janjua

 

PDF – Special Immunization Clinic – Dr. Manish Sadarangani


Discussion with Panel Members 


Closing Remarks - Dr. Monika Naus

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Day 1

Welcome - Dr. Monika Naus, Medical Director, Communicable Diseases and Immunization Service - VIDEO


State of the Nation - Dr. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer, BC - VIDEO


Welcome - Shane Pointe, Elder, Musqueam Nation - VIDEO

COVID: The Virus, the Vaccines, the Future – VIDEO (Session 1)


PDF - Coronavirus; What is it? Where did it come from? Where is it going? - Dr. Mel Krajden, Medical Director, Public Health Laboratory, BCCDC


PDF - Coronavirus vaccines - Dr. Joanne Langley, Researcher, Dalhousie University and Canadian Centre for Vaccinology


PDF - Pandemic to Endemic – Please Say it's True! – Future of COVID – 19 Immunization - Dr. Manish Sadarangani, Director, Vaccine Evaluation Centre, BC Children's Hospital


Discussion with the panel

 

New Approaches to Immunization Communication – VIDEO


Introduction - Stephanie Meier, BSN, MPH, Senior Practice Leader, BCCDC


PDF - Learnings from Behavioural Science – Takuro Ishikawa, PhD, Behavioural Scientist, Behavioural Insights Group


PDF - The Immunization Infodemic – An Innovative BC Approach – Craig Thompson, BSN, MBA, Senior Director, PHABC / Lily Crist, French Education Director, Kids Boost Immunity, PHABC / Takuto Shiota, Public Health Association of BC


Discussion with the panel

 

Closing – Marion Guenther, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Immunizations, FNHA – VIDEO


DAY 2

Welcome – Bethany McMullen, Director, Immunizations, BC Ministry of Health – VIDEO

 

How could we integrate COVID-19 vaccine into routine immunization delivery? – VIDEO


Welcome: Emily Malnis, PHN, Immunization Leader, Vancouver Coastal Health

Panel:

PDF - Brenda Tan, MD

Jonathan Spence, Public Health Immunization Program Leader

PDF - Bryce Wong, Pharmacist

PDF - Penny Ballem, MD COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Immunization Efforts


Discussion with the panel: Katharine Chilton, Vaccine Educator, BCCDC


Racial Equity in Immunization – VIDEO


PDF - Introduction - Dr. Julie Bettinger, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, Vaccine Evaluation Centre


PDF - Black Community responses to racism as evidenced by COVID vaccine uptake and attitudes – Stephanie Allen, Hogan's Alley Society


PDF - South Asian Community member experiences and feedback for improving COVID – 19 vaccine-related communications  - Gurvir Dhutt, MPH, Academic Assistant, Vaccine Evaluation Centre, BCCH


PDF - South Asian health experience with outreach and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines – Samantha Tong, Manager, South Asian Health Institute


First Nations Communities in BC – A whole of community approach - Marion Guenther, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Immunization, FNHA


Discussion with the panel - Rebecca Haber, Immunization Leader, Fraser Health


What's new and interesting? – VIDEO


Screening of 'Give it Your Best Shot' and Q & A - Link to Resource - Hana Mitchell, Pediatric ID, BC Children's Hospital


Link to Resource - Relaunch of the Immunization Communication Tool and Q & A – Katharine Chilton, Vaccine Educator – Communicable Disease & Immunization Services, BCCDC


Link to Resource - Update on Kids Boost Immunity & Clubs Boost Immunity and Q & A - Ian Roe, Content Strategist, BCCDC


PDF - New pneumococcal vaccines under review in Canada and Q & A - Kyla J. Hildebrand, MD, MScCH Ped

 

Closing – Dr. Monika Naus, Medical Director, Communicable Diseases and Immunization Service – VIDEO 


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In collaboration with First Nations Inuit Health and the government of Alberta, BCCDC hosted the Western Canadian Immunization Forum 2011 on December 7 and 8, 2011 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.  The primary audience was staff at all levels involved with immunization program delivery in Western Canada.

Wednesday December 7th, 2011

Morning Plenary Session: 
Introduction and overview of the program, new vaccine pipeline and prioritization process

New developments in vaccine safety monitoring: Canada and the World

Adverse events following immunization: Pathophysiology and Communication to Parents and the Public

Afternoon Breakout Sessions:


Breakout #1: Perspectives on Evaluating Immunization Programs Breakout #2: CRNBC Decision Support Tools and RN Scope of Practice Breakout #3: Life Behind the Doors of Public Health: Technology and Cold Chain Breakout #4: HPV Vaccine: current research and future program directions Thursday December 8th, 2011

Morning Plenary Session:

Opening remarks

Kathleen Ness (Alberta Health and Wellness)

The rationale for introducing a 2nd dose of varicella (Canada) 

Using social media as an advocacy tool to communicate about immunization

Collaboration and Communication with Pharmacists who Immunize

The US Experience with the Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccine 

Afternoon Breakout Sessions: 

Breakout #5: Ethical and disease prevention considerations related to alternate schedules Breakout #6: Partners in Prevention (a BC-wide physician survey) results Breakout #7: Advocacy in Your Practice: ImmunizeBC's "I Have Immunity" campaign Breakout #8: Immunization as a Component of Comprehensive School Health
 

Immunize BC Forum

 

Thursday Presentations

Harriet Cooks - Opening remarks by First Nations Elder

Eric Young - Opening remarks from the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport

Monika Naus - Introduction and overview of the program

Samara David - Immunization uptake in BC adults

Danuta Skowronski - Scientific considerations for expansion to universal influenza vaccine policy

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Ian Gemmill - Implementation of the universal influenza immunization program in Ontario: Lessons learned

Beverly Hagar - Mandatory immunization of health care workers against influenza

Alison McGeer - Adult pneumococcal vaccine: Old and new

Michael Oxman - Zoster vaccine for older adults

Q&A panel with all Thursday presenters Pearls from Thursday breakout sessions

Friday Presentations

Samara David and Monika Naus - HPV year 1 BC: Uptake of dose 1 and adverse events

Linda McCannell - Lessons learned in year 1 of the BC HPV program

Elizabeth Brodkin - Mature minor consent: Theory versus practice   Gina Ogilvie - Knowledge, attitudes and practice of parents of grade 6 girls in BC

Monique Landry - HPV year 1 in Quebec: Different perspectives, different outcomes 

Pam Orr - Epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases in First Nations people

Gail Peekeekoot - Erasing the lines: Public health service integration for First Nations communities

Q&A panel with all Friday presenters

Pearls from Friday breakout sessions and forum closing remarks

 

 

Forum on Immunizing in Schools

The proceedings of the morning plenary sessions from the “Forum on Immunizing in Schools” are archived below; permissions were obtained from the presenters for the posted presentations and accompanying audio.  

The goal of this two day forum was to share successes and lessons learned from school-based immunization programs in BC, with a focus on preadolescent/ adolescent age groups.  

Participants and presenters were mainly from the public health community, but also included those from education and clinical practice. The proceedings of the meeting, including afternoon breakout sessions, will inform the future work of the BC Immunization Subcommittee, which hosted this event, and implementation of the ImmunizeBC strategic framework on immunization.  

Day 1 Presentations

Overview, M. Naus

Immunization Rates and Trends, S. David

Legal Issues for Consent and Records, F. Gow

Health and Education: Partnerships in Practice, L. Buchanan

Building Relationships in Schools, L. Dukowski 


Day 2 Presentations

Differentiating between anxiety, syncope & anaphylaxis,  R. Gustafson 

Managing the pain of injection: the example of HPV vaccine, C. Jajeunesse

Using the mass module in iPHiS, A. Steele

Using PARIS for school based immunization, J. Reedjik

Lessons learned from year 1 of the HPV program in Nova Scotia , K. McGill

Lessons learned from year 1 of the HPV program in Ontario
B. Warshawsky

 
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