The Health Portfolio

* For the National FASD Initiative, the Health Portfolio includes:

Public Health Agency of Canada

• Announced September 2004, formerly the Population and Public Health Branch
• Home of the FASD web site
  • National FASD Initiative
  • Community based programming:
    • Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP)
    • Community Action Program for Children (CAPC)
    • Aboriginal Head Start, Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUN)
  • Healthy Pregnancy
  • Maternal and Infant Health
  • Funding

Health Canada - Branches with FASD-related programs or activities:

• First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB)
  • FASD Strategic Progam
  • National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP)
  • Community based programming:
    • Aboriginal Head Start, On-Reserve (AHSOR)
• Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch (HECSB)
  • Canada's Drug Strategy
  • Substances: Problematic Use
  • Funding
• Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB)
  • Food and Drugs Act
• Health Policy Branch (HPB)
  • Bureau of Women's Health and Gender Analysis
  • Policy Planning and Priorities
  • Horizontal Policy & Strategic Planning
  • Funding

Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)

• Government of Canada's agency for health research

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA)

• Canada's addictions agency
• Established under the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Act, assented to in 1988 - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/legislation/acts-lois/index_e.html