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This Plan outlines the Agency's priorities for the year and it is a guide to help Canadians understand the diverse and strategic ways the Agency strengthens public health at all levels.

In 2021-22, PHAC will use many tools to promote vaccine uptake, leverage public opinion research to address evolving issues relating to vaccine hesitancy, and continue to work hard to protect Canadians by ensuring vaccine safety. PHAC will also continue to provide Canadians with useful, timely, and evidence-based information to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Plan provides an overview of the Agency’s priorities and its plans to strengthen overall population health in Canada. The report highlights PHAC’s key anticipated outcomes and results, as well as human resources and budgetary plans for the upcoming fiscal year.

2017–18 Departmental Plan provides parliamentarians and Canadians with information on what we do and the results we are trying to achieve during the upcoming year.

Departmental Plans (DPs) and Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPPs) are individual expenditure plans for each department and agency (excluding Crown corporations). These reports provide increased levels of detail over a three-year period on an organization's main priorities by strategic outcome(s), program activity(ies) and planned/expected results, including links to related resource requirements. The RPPs also provide details on human resource requirements, major capital projects, grants and contributions, and net program costs. They are tabled in Parliament by the President of the Treasury Board on behalf of the ministers who preside over the appropriation-dependent departments and agencies identified in Schedules I, I.1 and II of the Financial Administration Act .

This report, which is tabled under section 20 of the Service Fees Act and section 4.2.8 of the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees that Public Health Agency of Canada had the authority to charge in the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

The Future-Oriented Statement of Operations has been prepared on the basis of government priorities and the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (the Agency) plans as described in the Departmental Plan. The information in the forecast results for fiscal year 2019-20 is based on actual results as at January 24, 2020 and on forecasts for the remainder of the fiscal year. Forecasts have been made for the planned results for fiscal year 2020-21.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) provides national leadership to support the health of pregnant individuals, as well as young children and their families who face challenges that put their health at risk. In this role PHAC provides funding to community-based organizations that develop and deliver comprehensive intervention and prevention programming through the Community Action Program for Children (CAPC), which targets children between 0 and six years of age and their families, and the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP), which targets pregnant individuals, as well as new parents and caregivers, and their babies.

FedDev Ontario's 2019-20 Departmental Results Report (DRR) provides an account to Parliament and Canadians of accomplishments made against plans, priorities and results set out in the 2019–20 Departmental Plan (DP).

This report provides an overview of PHAC’s performance and achievements over the past fiscal year in support of the Government of Canada's commitment to protect the health and safety of all Canadians, as well as its contributions to global public health efforts.