Background The State of Washington (WA) and the Province of British Columbia (BC) have been leading Pacific North West public health collaboration since 2003.  The initial focus of this state and provincial collaboration rested on an annual cross border workshop to address emerging public health threats, including pandemic influenza preparedness and tracking infectious disease across borders.  This successful partnership has strengthened...

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Mary Selecky, former Washington State Secretary Health, accepts the first PNWBHA Lifetime Achievement Award from PNWBHA co-founders John Erickson and Wayne Dauphinee Award Citation In recognition of a lifetime commitment to improving public health and healthcare in the State of Washington and for nurturing bi-national public health preparedness and response in the Pacific...

The 2013  PNWBHA Cross Border Public Health Preparedness Workshop wrapped up May 2,  in Vancouver, BC.  The three day workshop, celebrating the PNW Cross Border Workshop’s tenth anniversary and with the theme Looking Back – Moving Forward: The Next Ten Years, was attended by more than 200 healthcare, public health and emergency management professionals. Click here for Workshop presentations and...

Comprehensive study of decision-making during H1N1 in Canada is now published TORONTO, March 1, 2013 /CNW/ – A comprehensive study of how decision-makers set public health policy during the pandemic H1N1 in Canada has been published in the journal Social Science and Medicine. “A policy analysis of the use of evidence in developing public health policies for pandemic H1N1 in Canada” by Rosella et al. offers an important...