BACKGROUND: Continual efforts to eliminate community transmission of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) will be needed to prevent additional waves of …

During a foodborne crisis, risk assessors are often scrambling to assemble data needed to
trace suspected foods along very complex supply chains. Although traceability systems …

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began with a detected
cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Endemic transmission was …

Background: Shutdowns are enacted when alternative public health measures are insufficient
to control the epidemic and the population is largely susceptible. An age-stratified agent-…

To inform source attribution efforts, a comparative exposure assessment was developed to
estimate the relative exposure to Campylobacter, the leading bacterial gastrointestinal …

Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) is an important tool for the characterization
of complex exposure pathways that contribute to adverse human and animal health …

Public health measures applied exclusively within vulnerable populations have been suggested
as an alternative to community-wide interventions to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 transmission…

While the value of geographic information systems (GIS) is widely applied in public health
there have been comparatively few examples of applications that extend to the assessment of …

Vector-borne diseases are expected to be introduced, establish or expand geographically in
Canada under climate change. The ability to prioritize diseases is critical because there are …

Background The coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented an
unprecedented public health challenge. Prior to vaccination, non-pharmaceutical interventions, …