Mission Statement:
“To increase awareness and facilitate communication and collaboration on traditional and emerging food and waterborne parasites in Canada”
Goals/Objectives:
- Identify and communicate risks and research / knowledge gaps relevant to the field of food and waterborne parasitology
- Facilitate discussion, grant applications, and collaborative research
- Develop and validate standardized methods for isolation, detection, characterization, surveillance and control of food and waterborne parasites
- Generate data for risk assessments and policy development
- Provide expert advice and testing in support of illness outbreak investigations and surveillance studies
- Establish national / international linkages and collaborations
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Contact Information:
- Dr. Brent Dixon (Chair), brent.dixon@canada.ca
- Dr. Momar Ndao (Co-chair), momar.ndao@mcgill.ca
- Dr. Rasha Maal-Bared (Secretary), rmaalbar@epcor.com