E-Mail To prepare for the next pandemic and provide a coordinated approach to vaccination across the country, Canada should create Canadian Immunization Services based on the Canadian Blood Services model, authors propose in The authors, including a leading health policy and immunization expert, a blood system expert and a former federal minister of health, are Dr. Kumanan Wilson, professor, Department of Medicine and member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Ottawa; Dr. Graham Sher, CEO, Canadian Blood Services; and Dr. Jane Philpott, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University. "If we want to be better prepared for the next pandemic, it is time to chart a bold new path forward," said Dr. Kumanan Wilson. "We propose intergovernmental collaboration through an arms-length entity, which was successful after the tainted blood scandal, one of Canada's biggest public health crises. We have done this before, emerging stronger from a public health crisis and creating a world-class blood system. We can do it again."