Message from the Minister of Health – Breast Cancer Awareness Month

From: Public Health Agency of Canada Statement from the Minister of Health, The Honourable Marjorie Michel P.C., M.P. October 8, 2025  | Ottawa, Ontario | Public Health Agency of Canada “Breast cancer remains one of the most common forms of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death among women in Canada. One in eight women will receive a breast cancer diagnosis in their lifetime.  That’s why the Government of Canada works closely with partners and stakeholders to promote breast cancer awareness, prevention and screening for early detection. Empowering women to make informed decisions about their health can save lives. …Important work is happening to help us better understand breast cancer trends and risks to better respond to the diverse needs of women across Canada. For example, we have partnered with the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health and Statistics Canada to accelerate breast cancer data analysis based on factors such as age, race and ethnicity. As well, experts are enhancing the OncoSim-Breast model that was developed by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and Statistics Canada, by including data on breast density and exploring the inclusion of race-based data to better predict breast cancer outcomes and inform decision making. Breast cancer touches the lives of so many every day. Nobody should have to face this disease alone. If you or a loved one is coping with a cancer diagnosis, there are many ways you can seek support. Visit the Canadian Cancer Society’s community services locator, which helps cancer patients, caregivers and health care providers find the services they need.” Last Updated on October 8, 2025

IPAJC at EPICOH

The International Partnership on Automatic Job Coding (IPAJC) will be represented at the 30th edition of the EPICOH Conference (Epidemiology in Occupational Health) from October 6-9, 2025 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The IPAJC was established in 2021 with the partnership seeking to enable and promote efficient collection, processing, and accessibility of job information through improvement of automatic coding tools. Involvement and participation in IPAJC includes occupational epidemiologists and computer scientists engaged in examining the relationships between occupational exposures and health, and has since been expanded to include economists, statisticians and sociologists. Our Research Director, Dr. Ellen Sweeney is a member of the leadership team and represents Atlantic PATH and CanPath. The IPAJC will present at EPICOH: Calvin Ge, Peter Elias, Melissa C. Friesen, Olga Kononykhina, Stacey Marovich, Cheryl Peters, Daniel E. Russ, Malte Schierholz, Ellen Sweeney, Anil Adisesh. (2025). The International Partnership on Automatic Job Coding (IPAJC): A Hub for Automatic Job Coding and Industry Coding Tools and Expertise for Occupational Health Research. Poster Presentation. EPICOH. Utrecht, Netherlands. Additional member presentations include: Daniel E. Russ. (2025). Small Language Model Based NAICS 2022 CLassification of Industry from Products and Services: CLIPS. Oral Presentation. EPICOH. Utrecht, Netherlands. Calvin Ge. (2025). TNO-Auto Occupation Coder: A Novel, Large-Language Model Based Multilingual Automatic Coding Tool for Occupations. Oral Presentation. EPICOH. Utrecht, Netherlands. Pabitra Jossee. (2025). Using the SOCcer occupation auto-coding tool to help participants self-code their occupation in online questionnaires. Oral Presentation. EPICOH. Utrecht, Netherlands. IPAJC hosts bi-monthly online meetings to discuss topics and advances related to automatic classification of jobs, industries, skills and related information. See our upcoming meetings and connect on our LinkedIn page, or contact us for more information.