Canada Communicable Disease Report—50 years later

Today, the journal provides a platform to showcase and publish the work of the very diverse and specialized programs of the Public Health Agency of Canada, from the various branches at the Agency involved in infection prevention and control, including ACS from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization and reports from the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network.CCDR publishes epidemiologic studies, eyewitness reports, implementation science research, outbreak reports, overviews, qualitative studies, rapid communication, surveillance reports, commentaries and several other types of articles.CCDR also publishes selected articles from the provincial, regional and local public health units, Canadian universities, and infectious disease departments from various hospitals across the country.Today, CCDR and the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice (HPCDP Journal) are the two main, bilingual, peer-reviewed and open access scientific journals of the Public Health Agency of Canada.Together, we are proud to disseminate top quality Canadian data and findings to support evidence-informed discussions.We sincerely hope that our daily efforts contribute to informing, guiding and shaping public health actions, for the benefit of Canada and beyond.