Report from the National Diabetes Surveillance System: Diabetes in Canada, 2008

Acknowledgements

The NDSS is guided by the Public Health Network's Task Group on Surveillance of Chronic Disease and Injury with the following members:

• Alberta Health and Wellness
• British Columbia Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
• Canadian Institute of Health Information
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
• Government of Nunavut
• Government of Yukon
• Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch
• Institut national de santé publique du Québec
• Manitoba Health
• New Brunswick Department of Health and Wellness
• Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information
• Northwest Territories Department of Health and Social Services
• Nova Scotia Department of Health, Diabetes Care Program of Nova Scotia
• Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and Ministry of Health Promotion
• Prince Edward Island Department of Health
• Public Health Agency of Canada
• Saskatchewan Health
• Statistics Canada

Expert advice was provided by the members of the NDSS Scientific Working Group:

• Gillian Booth, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto
• Kayla Collins, Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information
• Hasan Hutchinson/Paul Belanger, Institute of Nutrition Metabolism and Diabetes, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Jeffrey Johnson, School of Public Health, University of Alberta
• Isabelle Larocque, institut national de santé publique du Québec
• Marty Pearce/Kara McDonald, Consultants to British Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
• Rolf Puchtinger, Chronic Disease Branch, Manitoba Health and Healthy Living
• Indra Pulcins, Canadian Institute for Health Information
• Kim Reimer, Prevention and Health Promotion, British Columbia Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
• Mark Smith, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Baiju Shah/Shazhan Ahmed, Institute for Evaluative and Clinical Sciences, Ontario
• Larry Svenson, Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Health, Alberta Health and Wellness
• Ellen Toth, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta
• Linda Van Til, Research Directorate, Veteran Affairs Canada

Data quality and verification expertise are provided by the members of the NDSS Technical Working Group:

• Fred Ackah. Alberta Health and Wellness
• Connie Cheverie, Prince Edward Island Department of Health
• Wendy Fonseca-Holt, Chronic Disease Branch, Manitoba Health and Healthy Living
• Janice Hawkey, Saskatchewan Health
• Alexander Kopp, Institute of Clinical and Evaluative Services
• Pat McCrea, British Columbia Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
• Robin Read, Diabetes Care Program of Nova Scotia
• Louis Rochette, Institut national de santé publique du Québec
• Anthony Leamon, Population Health, Department of Health and Social Services, Government of the Northwest Territories
• Khokan Sikdar, Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information
• Mike Tribes, Government of Yukon, Health and Social Services
• Amaranth Consulting Group Ltd. British Columbia
• Rowena Tervo, Department of Health and Wellness, New Brunswick
• Paul Tchouaffi, Department of Health and Social Services, Health Information and Research, Iqualuit, Nunavut

A newly formed Diabetes Surveillance Advisory Committee, chaired by the Canadian Diabetes Association, advises PHAC on diabetes surveillance in Canada.