The National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, formerly The International Centre for Infectious Disease (ICID) is a Canadian organisation set up in 2004 to collaborate resources worldwide in the fight against infectious diseases.
[1] 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.
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