Webinar – Current Landscape of Healthcare-Associated Infections and AMR in Canadian Hospitals

Join us for this engaging webinar where the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) team at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) will provide an overview of the CNISP program, emerging threats like Candida auris and carbapenamase-producing organisms and cover new initiatives such as the Simplified Dataset for capturing aggregate antimicrobial resistance data from non-CNISP hospitals.

CNISP is a collaboration between PHAC, AMMI Canada, and 106 sentinel hospitals. CNISP conducts prospective surveillance of HAIs and antimicrobial-resistant organisms (AROs) to support infection prevention and control. Alongside HAIs and AROs, CNISP tracks antimicrobial use, infection prevention practices, laboratory practices, and viral respiratory illnesses (including COVID-19).

To attend:

1. Register in advance: https://hc-sc-gc-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TSo50ixcSgWIZ_vWStkfpQ
2. You will receive an email confirmation with a personalised link for you to join the webinar. Save that email until the day of the webinar. Please let us know of any accommodations you may require by emailing cdic.webinars-webinaires.lmti@phac-aspc.gc.ca. For ASL/LSQ interpretation, please send your request sent to us as soon as possible in advance of the webinar. Interpretation services are subject to interpreters’ availabilities. Closed captioning can be provided as an alternative support.
3. On the day of the webinar, click the link on the confirmation email to watch the webinar. It will take you to the zoom.us site. Click “join from your browser”. You will need internet connection to participate in Zoom webinars through the web-based interface. You may also join audio by phone for the English presentation. Please note: French interpretation is not available by phone at this time. To hear the French interpretation audio you will need to join Zoom via the web-based interface and select computer audio.

To participate in a webinar you will need access to a computer with an internet connection to watch the presentation.

Space is limited so to be sure you can access the webinar you must register in advance. Click the link provided on the invitation and then enter the required registration information. The link in the invitation is only for registrations – you cannot access the webinar on the day of the event by using this link.

Once you have registered, you will receive an email about how to access the webinar. Be sure to save this email until the day of the webinar. The email will contain a link so you can access the webinar online.

Here is how to join the webinar by phone (only applicable for English audio at this time):

1. Dial a Zoom number (provided in the confirmation email)
2. Enter the meeting ID – the nine (9), ten (10), or eleven (11) digit ID provided to you by the host, then the pound (#) key.
3. You will be prompted to enter your unique participant ID. This only applies if you have joined on the computer or mobile device. Press # to skip.

If you have a problem during the webinar you can send a message to the host using the chat function on the screen.