This past week from Monday October 28th to Wednesday October 30th, the BC Provincial Perinatal Substance Use Conference was hosted by the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre’s Mental Health and Substance Use Programs and Initiatives Division in Richmond, BC. This conference is hosted annually to share new data and educate professionals in the field, focusing on the topics of best practices for care of pregnant women and people with substance use disorder, recent improvements in the care cascade for this population and facilitating opportunities for collaboration between health organizations. As part of this year’s conference, RID Program team members Emma Karlsen (Research Manager) and Roisin Delaney (Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator) attended as exhibitors to help showcase the ongoing work of the RID Program’s REACT-Syph (Towards the Eradication of Congenital Syphilis in Canada: Canadian Maternal and Congenital Syphilis Surveillance) Project, which is working to develop a coordinated surveillance database of cases of syphilis in pregnancy and congenital syphilis across Canada. Additionally, a large goal of this project is to conduct ongoing knowledge mobilization to both care providers and patients to help increase awareness of the increases in syphilis in pregnancy/congenital syphilis cases in Canada, highlighting the optimal cascade of care for syphilis cases in pregnancy and overall increase the general understanding of syphilis as well as reducing stigma around the disease. Thus, this conference, whose attendees are care providers in many fields/disciplines that are involved in prenatal care, is a highly important population to target for this knowledge mobilization, especially as substance use disorder in pregnancy has been seen to be a significant risk factor/concurrent condition of syphilis in pregnancy. At the conference, Roisin and Emma distributed custom-designed resources with data on the current statistics on congenital syphilis/syphilis in pregnancy in BC, as well those with a QR code to access a group of syphilis-related resources, as well as the contact information for the RID Program for potential collaborations in the future on this topic. Overall, the event was an incredible success as throughout the three days of the conference Emma and Roisin were able to connect and distribute resources to numerous attendees from multiple medical fields and geographical regions of BC. Also, many of the attendees who they networked with mentioned that this information was incredibly valuable, as they had encountered cases of this disease in their clinical practice but were unsure/not confident in the steps to address the disease. So, in general a great success in increasing awareness and knowledge of both the ongoing work of the REACT-Syph project and the congenital syphilis/syphilis in pregnancy crisis in Canada! If you would like to get more information on the REACT-Syph project, click here to access the study-specific page for the project and if you are interested in accessing the resources distributed at the conference, click here to access our linktree or scan the QR code in the image above!