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The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) needs effective and efficient means to provision digital data services to Canadians. These means must provide opportunities to achieve parity across jurisdictions, timely and transparent public health reporting to all communities, and gain a foothold in international circles.   

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) needs effective and efficient means to provision digital data services to Canadians. These means must provide opportunities to achieve parity across jurisdictions, timely and transparent public health reporting to all communities, and gain a foothold in international circles.   

PHAC and Health Canada (HC) are currently exploring opportunities to modernize the data analytics capabilities of public health data scientists, in response to 2019 Office of Auditor General recommendations and the experience of managing data throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Health Canada (HC) and PHAC are exploring opportunities to modernize the data analytics capabilities of public health data scientists, in response to 2019 Office of Auditor General recommendations and the experience of managing data throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.  

In January 2022, building on the PHAC Data Strategy, CDSB (Corporate Data and Surveillance Branch) received endorsement from PHAC Executives to implement a distributed network of Data Service Teams (DSTs), linked together with an enterprise-level data fabric that facilitates effective and secure data management, sharing, integration and analysis.   

In January 2022, building on the PHAC Data Strategy, CDSB (Corporate Data and Surveillance Branch) received endorsement from PHAC Executives to implement a distributed network of Data Service Teams (DSTs), linked together with an enterprise-level data fabric that facilitates effective and secure data management, sharing, integration and analysis.   

These activities are occurring while defining the new relationship between PHAC’s Corporate Data Surveillance Branch and HC’s Digital Transformation Branch (DTB), borne out of the context of the '''Memorandum of Agreement,''' signed in June 2022, providing increased autonomy in technologist (IT) hiring and technology direction for the Agency.

These efforts led to a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). The purpose of this Agreement is to set forth and define the roles and responsibilities (R&R) of the PHAC-CDSB and HC-DTB (Digital Transformation Branch). These R&R touch building and sustaining data capacity in PHAC through the adoption of a federated model for data capacity delivery. They allow CDSB to have access to jointly manage IT infrastructure and application services, and outlines compliance and governance mechanisms between both organizations

==='''Presentation of the MOA'''===

==='''Presentation of the MOA'''===

This MOA is, in effective since June 30, 2022, and, limited to the relationship between HC-DTB and PHAC-CDSB. It doesn't replace the Shared Services Partnership Framework Agreement (SSP) .   

This MOA is, in effective since June 30, 2022, and, limited to the relationship between HC-DTB and PHAC-CDSB. It doesn't replace the Shared Services Partnership Framework Agreement (SSP) .