Learning catalogue - Health Canada & the Public Health Agency of Canada

This course is designed to help you, as a manager, develop approaches and skills to effectively manage information. You will also learn how the information life cycle relates to your work; how to differentiate between information of business value (IBV) and transitory information; and how to choose an appropriate course of action for processing the information that you create or is in your care. The course takes approximately 120 to 180 minutes to complete.

This online course provides a comprehensive overview of information security in SharePoint as a Corporate Repository (SACR). It equips participants with the skills to manage permissions, safeguard sensitive information, and ensure secure collaboration.

Bargaining agents are unions or associations that represent you, the public servant. They ensure that your wages, hours, and working conditions are in your best interest. As such, employees from Health Canada (HC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) are invited to take part in an information session with bargaining agents.

The Departmental Innovation Office is proud to present the Innovation Learning Guide: an interactive reference tool designed to empower employees to innovate, build their capacity, and drive transformative solutions to help shape the future of Health Canada’s services and initiatives.

A podcast series designed for ROEB inspectors, analysts and other employees.

A job aid meant to provide inspectors with an overview of inspection and site risk assessment.

ROEB inspectors and analysts participating in this live virtual course will acquire the tools needed to mitigate the risks associated with doing inspections in the field. In this learner-centered course, delivered by experienced Health Canada inspectors, participants will be shown how to create a pre-inspection plan, use their situational awareness during an inspection, and report any hazardous occurrences after an inspection. This course is recommended in the first 6-12 months of employment.

This overview module defines intellectual property (IP) and the most common forms of IP protection used at PHAC. It introduces IP requirements for public servants, including maintaining Crown copyright, invention disclosure, and protecting confidential information. This module is a prerequisite for all other intellectual property modules. Topics Include: What is Intellectual Property? Copyright Patents Public Servants Inventions Act Trade Secrets Other Forms of Intellectual Property

The Copyright module provides more detail about copyright, Crown copyright, and how we manage both within PHAC. It describes Creative Commons open licenses and some best practices to legally use copyrighted materials in our work. It highlights the process to maintain Crown copyright when we publish in journals and touches on IP rights in procurement.

Inventions, inventors and the Public Servants Inventions Act. Review Form 1 and factors that influence the decision to protect an invention.

The Legal Agreements module describes agreements that protect PHAC’s IP, among other things, when staff transfer materials, exchange data, or collaborate with someone who is not employed by the Agency. It outlines the purpose of these agreements, when they are used, and their general requirements. It sets out the information OIPMBD typically needs to develop agreements and a brief overview of our process. The module also highlights federal resources to assess potential security concerns in research collaborations.

This module goes into more detail about patents, their purpose, and their required criteria. It presents a broad description of the patenting process and an introduction to patent searching. It ends with potential actions once a patent is granted, including licensing, infringement and PHAC’s Invention and Innovation Awards Plan. OIPMBD supports the patenting process for PHAC.