National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services
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About the National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services
The National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services (NACPHS) replaces the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care that was established in 2009 to develop guidelines that support primary care providers in delivering preventive health care.
The NACPHS is a national advisory committee of individuals with expertise, knowledge or experience in:
- disease prevention and health promotion of children, youth, and/or adults;
- guideline production and dissemination; and
- systematic reviews, their methodology and their application to clinical decision-making and/or policy.
Subject matter experts, including medical specialists and clinical experts, along with patient and public partners, may serve as NACPHS members in addition to members of guideline-specific working groups. A majority of the NACPHS will be comprised of primary care professionals, representing diverse primary care fields including family physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and public health practitioners.
Mandate
The mandate of the National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services is to develop person- and equity-centred, context-sensitive, timely, evidence-based guidelines to support primary care health professionals and teams in their delivery of preventive health services for people in Canada.
The NACPHS plays an important role in developing independent, objective, evidence-based guidelines. The NACPHS's approach to developing guidelines is defined by several key principles:
- Scientific excellence: striving for the highest standards of scientific rigor by grounding guidelines in the best available evidence and strong methodological integrity.
- Transparency: enabling public and professional trust through transparent sharing of information and decision-making processes.
- Timeliness and relevance: ensuring that guidelines are produced in a timely manner and remain current, relevant, and responsive to changing context and emerging evidence.
- Health equity: embedding equity at every stage of the guideline development process to ensure that guidelines are relevant, actionable, and adaptable across diverse health care settings and populations in Canada.
- Multidisciplinary perspectives and lived experience: integrating diverse expertise, lived experience, and system perspectives into its governance, membership, and processes.
- Collaborative leadership: building partnerships to leverage expertise and resources, while coordinating efforts to promote complementarity and avoid duplication with existing guidance efforts and advisory bodies.
Contact
For more information please contact nacphs-secretariat-ccnsps@phac-aspc.gc.ca