page_title: Franklin White
section_title: Public Health Surveillance and Investigation
hierarchical_section_title: Franklin White / Career / Public Health Surveillance and Investigation
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Hôpital Royal Victoria, 687, avenue des Pins Ouest, Montréal
context_page_description: Franklin Marshall Matthews White is a Canadian public health scientist focused on capacity building for international and global education, research and development. He advocates:
  "Public health...must not be left to the international community to define; it is...the responsibility of the countries themselves to define their priorities. The global agenda should be viewed as complementary at best."
  "Health is mostly made in homes, communities and workplaces and only a minority of ill health can be repaired in clinics and hospitals."
  "Nations assess their public health human resource needs and develop their ability to deliver this capacity, and not depend on other countries to supply it."
context_section_description: Appointed to McGill's department of epidemiology and health in 1972, he focused on occupational and environmental health, and worked part-time in the Royal Victoria Hospital community clinic. In 1974, he joined Health Canada as chief, communicable disease epidemiology, and in 1975 initiated Canada Diseases Weekly Report, the nation's first data-supported surveillance report, and launched its Field Epidemiology Program. As director, communicable disease control and epidemiology for Alberta (1977–80), and then director of epidemiology for British Columbia (1980–82), he developed surveillance and investigation capacity. He published several novel investigations: Legionnaires disease, shigellosis on a work train in Labrador, gastrointestinal infection related to pooled expressed breast milk, poliomyelitis in an unvaccinated religious community, and brucellosis in a slaughterhouse; he also published on imported diseases, health systems and immunization policy. He served on the National Advisory Committee on Epidemiology (1977–82), and the National Immunization Policy Committee (1978–81). He was co-chair (hygiene), Medical Committee, Commonwealth Games, Edmonton 1977-78.
caption: Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
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