====== Althea House ======

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**Althea House** is a Canadian public health official based in [[canada:ontario:Ottawa]], [[canada:Ontario]]. She is notable during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] due to her leadership roles with the [[Public Health Agency of Canada]].

===== Career and Affiliations =====

==== Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre ====

House worked as a [[nurse practitioner]] at [[Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre]] from 2003-2006.

==== Public Health Agency of Canada ====

House is the Associate Director of the [[Public Health Agency of Canada]] (PHAC).((//Althea House.// LinkedIn. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/althea-house-b0764327/)) Prior to this, she served as the Manager for the [[National Advisory Committee on Immunization]] (NACI), and of the Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza team of nurses, epidemiologists and physicians before that.((//National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Membership and representation.// (2020, December 18). Wayback Machine; Government of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20201218222110/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/naci-membership-representation.html))

House was a member of the Clinical Care Working Group of the [[Centre for Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control]] (CIDPC), where she contributed to the 2006 edition of the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector.((Public Health Agency of Canada. (2006). //Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector (p. 327).// Longwoods. https://web.archive.org/web/20220125013953/https://www.longwoods.com/articles/images/Canada_Pandemic_Influenza.pdf))

==== World Health Organization ====

House has participated on the [[World Health Organization]]'s [[Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization]].((Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization. (2018). //Final List of Participants.// World Health Organization. https://web.archive.org/web/20220421085452/https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/immunization/sage/sage-past-meeting-documents/sage_participants_oct18.pdf?sfvrsn=dfb421a2_5))

She did this through her role on the [[National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups]] (NITAG) network, representing NACI.((//Meetings.// NITAG Resource Center. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/hB2n1)) The NITAG Resource Center (NRC) website is funded by the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] and [[Gavi|Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance]]. Other partners include the WHO, the [[center for disease control and prevention|US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) and [[USAID]].((//The NITAG Resource Center.// (2019). World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/teams/regulation-prequalification/regulation-and-safety/pharmacovigilance/vaccine-safety-net/vsn-members/the-nitag-resource-center))