WEBINARS

The Classification Standards Behind
Canadian Health information 

Date and Time
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET

About this webinar

Canadian health data relies on national standards to ensure information can be consistently collected, understood, and used. This presentation provides an introduction to CIHI’s role in supporting standardized health information, with a focus on ICD-10-CA and CCI classifications and related tools. Participants will learn how these classifications contribute to Canadian health data, how they support the consistent collection of diagnoses and interventions, and how CIHI is modernizing its classification assets to respond to the rapidly changing clinical and technology landscape and user needs. The presentation will also introduce the Canadian Classifications Browser (CCB), a web-based tool that brings classification content, coding standards and related resources together in one place.

Quantifiable Indigenous Concepts: Increasing Precision of Population Analysis by Including “Indian Act” Legislation

Date and Time
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
10:00am - 11:00am MT

About this webinar: How do we make Indigenous population data more precise—and more meaningful? In this presentation, Kienan Williams introduces seven Quantifiable Indigenous Concepts (QICs) developed from Canada’s 2021 Census of Population, and explores how they can strengthen the way Indigenous populations are identified, disaggregated and analyze. With 1.8 million people self-reporting Indigenous identity in the 2021 Census, accurately disaggregating Indigenous populations requires appropriate quantitative methodological tools. Kienan will draw on both quantitative methods and his lived experience as a Status Indian represented in population datasets to explore why these distinctions matter.

Kienan will take a closer look at the approximately 0.9 million people in the Status Indian population and the importance of accurately representing this population in quantitative analysis. He’ll also introduce Quantifiable Indigenous Concepts Identification (QICIDs), a methodology designed to bring together quantitative sources of Indigenous population data and support analysis that is more precise, consistent and meaningful.

Residential Mobility and Multi-Domain Environmental Exposures in Canada: Building an Analytical Resource for Environmental Health Disparities Research

Date and Time
Thursday, November 19, 2026
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET

About this webinar

This seminar introduces the Residential Mobility Exposome File (ReMEF), a newly developed analytical resource linking long-term residential postal code histories to multi-domain environmental exposures — air pollution, built and green space, and thermal stress — over up to 25 years, within the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC).

The presentation begins with an overview of the file's construction and a snapshot of the cohort profile, highlighting its potential to support natural experiments that leverage residential mobility to examine cumulative, multi-domain exposures and disparities over time, including their relationship to population-level health outcomes. Two ongoing applications of the ReMEF will be presented.

The first, an environmental justice application, explores differential ambient air pollution exposure trajectories among racialized and non-racialized populations in Canada. The second, a core environmental epidemiology application, examines multi-domain environmental exposures and non-accidental mortality, using residential mobility as a quasi-experimental design.

Together, these applications illustrate the value of the ReMEF as a foundation for future collaborative research in environmental health disparities, exposure trajectory analysis, and mortality outcomes research.