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Health Canada

Department of the Canadian Government that oversees public health
Organization canadian_federal_department Q1057591

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
Canadian federal department, organization[3]
Official website
www.hc-sc.gc.ca, www.canada.ca, www.canada.ca[8][9][10]
Short name
HC[12]as of 2026-10-21
where from?
Edition
20261021 · as of 2026-10-21
Bronze
7a7bf58d5ac18436… v2.15-2026-10-20-ror-data.zip
Transform
4ort-mint · ror:20261021 · version not recorded

Status and dates

Inception
1996[7]

Location

Headquarters location
Tunney's Pasture[4]
Country
Canada[2]
Location
Canada[5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ottawa[1]as of 2026-10-21
where from?
Edition
20261021 · as of 2026-10-21
Bronze
7a7bf58d5ac18436… v2.15-2026-10-20-ror-data.zip
Transform
4ort-mint · ror:20261021 · version not recorded

People

Director / manager
Kamal Khera[11]

Relations

Child organization or unit
Public Health Agency of Canada[6]
More facts +3
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[14]
P14750
63AD-8EAD-64AB-70FC-B30D[15]
Partnership with
Canadian Institute for Health Information[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Health Canada ar وزارة الصحة الكندية es Ministerio de Salud de Canadá fa وزارت بهداشت کانادا fr Santé Canada he רשות הבריאות הקנדית ja カナダ保健省 ja 保健省 ko 헬스 캐나다 ru Министерство здравоохранения Канады uk Міністерство охорони здоров'я Канади zh 加拿大衛生部 zh-hans 加拿大卫生部
🔖 Identifiers · 22
ROR ID
05p8nb362
ISNI
0000000121102143
VIAF cluster ID
134783711
Library of Congress authority ID
n80099564
OpenAlex ID
P4310312968
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata P4310312968 OpenAlex I1288894424 edition 2026-09-27 · CC0 1.0 ↗
GRID ID
grid.57544.37
BHL creator ID
299179
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
health-canada
Facebook username
HealthyCdns
Freebase ID
/m/01fpyl
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
1288894424
Museum of Modern Art artist ID
27885
Show all 22 identifiers +10
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007390871705171
Open Funder Registry funder ID
501100000008
Quora topic ID
Health-Canada
Ringgold ID
6348
Scilit organization ID
1719
The Independent topic ID
health-canada
Topic's main category
Category:Health Canada
Wellcome Collection concept ID
h7x7dp2m
X (Twitter) username
GovCanHealth, GouvCanSante
Yale LUX ID
group/557241d5-a865-4b22-97c6-833ac8a91e30

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🔗 Connections
← Affiliated with 69
Mieczyslaw Szyszkowicz, Adrian J. Verster, Alexandra Muller-Gass, Alexandra S. Long, Alisa Vespa, Allison Denning, Andrey Boyadzhiev, Arsenii Gorin +61 more
Child organization or unit 1
Public Health Agency of Canada
Country 1
Canada
Director / manager 1
Kamal Khera
Employees / affiliates 1
Ivonka Surviła
Headquarters location 1
Tunney's Pasture
Instance of 1
organization
Location 1
Canada
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Topic's main category 1
Category:Health Canada
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Health Canada
← Investigated by 1
Falcon Lake incident
← Parent organization or unit 1
Public Health Agency of Canada
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Related Entities

Canada Ivonka Surviła organization WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . moma.org. moma.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [1] ↑ . ror.org. Retrieved . ror.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . ror.org. Retrieved . ror.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    The Independent topic ID → health-canada
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'de', 'en', 'fa', 'fr', 'ja', 'ko', 'ru', 'uk', 'zh']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ The Independent topic ID: health-canada, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/214120362|Health Canada (#214120362)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7171|The In"
  2. 10w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Country → Canada
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → WikiProject Govdirectory
    Country → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 63AD-8EAD-64AB-70FC-B30D, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
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