National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases


The National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, formerly The International Centre for Infectious Disease is a Canadian organisation set up in 2004 to collaborate resources worldwide in the fight against infectious diseases.

Purpose

The ICID is a non-profit charitable organisation that helps improve resources at a strategic as well as research level. Their main goals are to:
The ICID was created in 2004 on the advice of a 2003 joint federal, provincial and community committee. This task force was co-chaired by Dr. Frank Plummer of the Public Health Agency of Canada and Terry Duguid who is a past president and CEO of the ICID, envisioning a non-profit and completely independent organisation.