Overview
UBC CDC conducts research, education and policy development in support of provincial, national and international programs for infectious disease control. Current research focus is in the public health areas of communicable disease protection, including: influenza, drinking water protection, food safety, global health, HIV, hepatitis and tuberculosis. The Centre’s research and operational emphasis is on events that occur at the population level; using basic science applications from epidemiology, sociology, demography, ecology, microbiology, genomics and evolutionary biology.
Last Updated: December 17, 2010