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TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from PCIRN Management Committee 1 PCIRN Principal Investigators 2 PCIRN NETWORKS Clinical Trials Network 3 National Ambulatory Network 4 Special Immunization Clinics Network 5 Serious Outcomes Surveillance Network 6 Program Delivery and Evaluation Network 7 Reference Laboratory Network 8 PCIRN STUDENTS AND TRAINEES 9 ADMINISTRATION AND COMMUNICATIONS Financial Report 10 Co-Investigators, Contributors and Managers 11 Presentations and Publications 12 ABOUT THE PHAC/CIHR INFLUENZA RESEARCH NETWORK (PCIRN) PCIRN was launched through a three-year grant In February 2012, network investigators successfully of $13.9 million from the Public Health Agency participated in a directed grant application offered of Canada and CIHR in 2009. The network was by CIHR and PHAC, for an additional three years originally designed to carry out a three year plan of funding of $4.5 million, to 2015. In addition to develop and test procedures for evaluating a to public health funding, PCIRN has successfully pandemic vaccine using seasonal infuenza vaccine leveraged its network to welcome substantial as a model. Following the declaration of the support from industry for a variety of studies pandemic that same year, the investigators of the since 2009. new network immediately revised research plans in order to evaluate the H1N1/09 vaccine. PCIRN PCIRN currently represents over 90 investigators was formed to consolidate the existing expertise in at more than 30 institutions, including universities, vaccine evaluation; increase the capacity to rapidly hospitals, and provincial and regional agencies test candidate vaccines; create and strengthen across Canada. Since its inception, PCIRN has links and facilitate two-way knowledge exchange initiated more than 68 research studies through amongst vaccine evaluation researchers and decision its sub-networks, several of which are long-term makers, and train the next generation of pandemic studies moving into their sixth year of operation preparedness and infuenza researchers. in 2014.