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- What Is the EC Development Program?
- What Successful Candidates Do
- Opportunities after ECDP
- Why Choose ECDP?
What Is the EC Development Program?
Since 2006, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has offered the EC Development Program (ECDP) to recruit and train epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and policy analysts. The purpose of the program is to build PHAC's workforce in these specialized areas. The ECDP is a competency-based training program which permits career advancement for participants and prepares them for public health service at PHAC. With baby boomer employees retiring en masse in the next few years, the need for skilled and competent employees in the above streams is expected to continue to grow at PHAC.
What Successful Candidates Do
Participants in ECDP receive on-the-job training at the PHAC. The nature of the participant’s work varies by stream.
For example, epidemiologist stream participants will gain experience in analyzing complex datasets and implementing and evaluating health surveillance systems. Participants in the policy analyst stream may take part in evaluating data to guide public health program priority setting. Participants in each of the streams will gain experience in preparing and providing public health information to a variety of audiences.
Opportunities after ECDP
Successful ECDP graduates will generally be employed by their ECDP placement at PHAC. However, graduates of the program will have the skills and competencies to work in programs and divisions throughout PHAC, at Health Canada, and in provincial, territorial and even local health departments.
Why Choose ECDP?
New graduates and experienced public health practitioners can benefit by joining ECDP at the Public Health Agency of Canada.
At PHAC, ECDP participants will be part of a team tasked with addressing such complex public health issues as, pandemic influenza preparedness, tracking and controlling antimicrobial resistance, and current obesity trends and their implications for population health.
ECDP promotes interaction with a diverse and dynamic workforce.Participants have the opportunity to work alongside Canada’s leaders in public health, both at the Agency and across the country. Public health practitioners at PHAC come from varying educational backgrounds, including epidemiology, biostatistics, policy analysis, medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, demography, laboratory science, and law. Each of these disciplines work to protect the health of Canadians.
ECDP provides learning through serviceECDP participants can gain satisfaction in knowing that through their on-the-job training at PHAC, they are working to improve and protect the health of the Canadian population.
ECDP permits personal developmentThrough ECDP, participants have opportunities for career growth and personal development. After graduation, participants will be prepared for public health practice at PHAC and in provincial, territorial and local health departments.
For more information, contact phtrain@phac-aspc.gc.ca
or call toll free: 1-877-430-9995.
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