2017. Tam also was acting president during the interregnum between the departure of Mithani and the appointment of Namiesniowski. Responsibilities The PHAC is the locus of control for several systemic healthcare defences, amongst which are included: National Emergency Stockpile System National Antiviral Stockpile Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Branch Prion Diseases Program Disease Control and Detection Health Safety Travel Alerts Immunization and Vaccines Emergency Preparedness Health Promotion Injury Prevention Research and Statistics Health Education As well as the above, the PHAC houses the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR), Canadian Field Epidemiology Program (CFEP) and the Canadian Public Health Service (CPHS). Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response The CEPR is responsible for possible health risks from: natural events and disasters such as floods, earthquakes, fires and highly dangerous infectious diseases; and accidents or criminal and terrorist acts involving explosives, chemicals, radioactive substances or biological threats. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System The PHAC houses the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) at its Ottawa headquarters. Canada Communicable Disease Report "The Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR) is a bilingual, peer-reviewed journal on infectious diseases." It appears "on the first Thursday of each month, with combined issues in March/April and July/August. CCDR publishes surveillance reports, outbreak reports, original research, rapid communications, advisory committee statements and more... The journal has been in continuous publication since 1975," first by Health Canada. Since the 2004 bouleversement it has been published by PHAC. As of May 2020, the duties of Editor-in-Chief were delegated to Michel Deilgat, who resided in the Office of the Chief Science Officer at the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Branch. The French title of the publication is "Relevé des maladies transmissibles au Canada." The past Editor-in-Chief who had the office from 2013 to 2019 was named Patricia Huston. Canadian Notifiable Disease Surveillance System The Canadian Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (CNDSS) "collects, validates and maintains basic surveillance data on approximately 60 nationally notifiable diseases, dating back to 1924. Nationally notifiable diseases are infectious diseases that have been identified by the federal government and provinces and territories as priorities for monitoring and control efforts. Provinces and territories voluntarily submit annual notifiable disease data, which are used to produce national disease counts and rates. Age-group and sex breakdown are presented from 1991 onward." "Case definitions for nationally notifiable diseases are intended to support public health activities rather than clinical diagnosis. Standardized case definitions for NND were first