Health Protection includes proactive programs to help to monitor and control the spread of disease in First Nations communities, especially for diseases and infections that spread quickly. Health Protection programs also monitors drinking water on-reserve.
The Health Protection subcommittee has the following programs under their purview:
- Communicable Disease Control – Policy Development & Program Oversight
- Immunization – Prevention & Promotion & Education
- Tuberculosis – Prevention & Promotion & Education
- Tuberculosis – Coordination, Planning & Reporting
- Communicable Disease Emergencies – Planning & Response
- Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections – HIV/Aids Prevention & Promotion & Education
- Environmental Public Health – Policy Development & Program Oversight
- Environmental Public Health – Communicable Disease Control
- Drinking Water and Wastewater
- Other EPH Programming
- First Nations Environmental Contaminants Program
- Climate Change
