National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health

The National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health (NACSARS) was the body that the federal government of Canada commissioned to do a post-mortem inquiry on the SARS epidemic that hit Ontario in March 2003.[1][2][3][4][5]

The NACSARS report offered 77 recommendations, including that the federal government establish a subdivision that eventually became known as the Public Health Agency of Canada. It called "for the creation of a Canadian agency that would be the equivalent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and operate at arm's length from Health Canada." Here is the first Canadian mention of a Chief Public Health Officer. It earned the approval of Health Minister Anne McLellan. It also called for the Agency to be given a budget of $700 million by the year 2007.[6]

References

  1. ^ "National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health (Naylor) Report". Healthcare Quarterly (Toronto, Ont.). 7 (3): 30–5. 2004. doi:10.12927/hcq.2004.20352. PMID 15230164.
  2. ^ "ARCHIVED: Learning from SARS: Renewal of public health in Canada – Report of the National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health". Public Health Agency of Canada. 24 September 2004.
  3. ^ Duffin, Jacalyn (2006). SARS in Context: Memory, History, and Policy. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 171. ISBN 9780773576841.
  4. ^ "External Threats: Terrorism and Infectious Disease". Canadian Museum of History. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Federal Report: Learning from SARS Renewal of Public Health in Canada". CBC. 7 October 2003.
  6. ^ "SARS report slams governments". The Globe and Mail Inc. 7 October 2003.