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Enhancing CGDI-compliant Integrated Web GIS Capacity across the Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence: Supporting Zoonotic Disease Surveillance in Canada
This project will enable Canadian public health officials to use a web-based mapping application to identify the spread of zoonotic diseases, to issue prompt alerts, and to coordinate responses. Zoonotic diseases are caused by pathogens that infect animals and are also transmittable to humans. For example, Lyme disease, hantavirus, West Nile virus, and avian influenza all fall into this category.
The web-mapping application will capitalize on data in the Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence (CNPHI), a national information system for infectious-disease management in Canada. Providing tools for visualizing, exploring, and understanding zoonotic disease data, this project will enable public health officials to use spatial analysis to quickly identify regions afflicted with zoonotic diseases and to respond promptly.
The project will also embed geographic information systems (GIS) applications within the CNPHI interface and ensure that these applications comply with Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) standards. Embedding applications firmly within the CNPHI is essential both to maintaining consistent, accurate, and up-to-date maps and data and to making this information accessible to those who need it for decision making. Complying fully with CGDI standards and practices, the system will integrate Web Mapping Service (WMS) and metadata and will leverage a number of CGDI-compliant WMS data sources.
Primary Partner:
Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence (CNPHI)
Guelph,
Ontario;
Partners: Public Health Agency of Canada-Foodborne, Waterborne and Zoonotic Infections Division; National Microbiology Laboratory; Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre; Office of Public Health Practice
Funding From GeoConnections: $150,000.00 ( 28.3 %)
Estimated Inception Date: November 1, 2006
Estimated Completion Date: November 30, 2007
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: All provinces