On June 5, 2009, the federal Minister of Health announced that the Government of Canada was committing $15 million for a four-year national population health study of neurological conditions ( NPHSNC ). Designed to improve our understanding of neurological conditions and of their impacts on Canadians, the NPHSNC is being administered by the Public Health Agency of Canada ( PHAC ) and co-mana-ged by Neurological Health Charities Canada ( NHCC ), a non-governmental organization representing 25 charities with a focus on neurology. Rather than a single study, the NPHSNC is an extensive research program comprising three national surveys and 13 pan-Canadian research projects, including some studies that look at the feasibility of ongoing surveillance of some neurological conditions and the development of a microsimulation model. Results will inform future program and policy development. The NPHSNC team is made up of more than 125 researchers at 30 academic and non-academic institutions across Canada.