E-DRUG: Second webinar: "Zika and Health Systems" later today
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[Although the subject is not strictly essential medicines related, it is of current interest]
Dear Colleagues and friends,
Good day. The thematic series of webinars on the Zika virus epidemic,
organized by the HHA Communities of Practices in collaboration with
WHO-Geneva and ITM-Antwerp continues.
The second webinar in the series, entitled 'Zika and Health systems', is
taking place this
Thursday, the 12th of May from 1:00-2:00pm GMT - TODAY
(3:00-4:00pm Geneva Time).
The session will be in English but you can follow and
intervene in French as we will ensure translation.
Below is information on how to participate in this webinar
To join the training session
1. Go to
https://itg-training.webex.com/itg-training/k2/j.php?MTID=taa24c8614fa062558f9ca0d865334155
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the session password: 1234
4. Click "Join Now".
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link
https://itg-training.webex.com/itg-training/k2/j.php?MTID=t66227dd600351246b82385062351e34c
On the D day, click on the webinar link *15 minutes before the set time* as
the webinar will promptly start at 1pm GMT. Kindly see attached relevant
documents on the session content and the biography of the Speakers,
Ms. Nana A. Mensah-Abrampah and
Claire-Lise Chaignat
There are also are some documents on how to download and use the WeBex platform in case you are not familiar with it.
Kindly share information about this series of webinars on the Zika virus,
with your colleagues at work and others who may be interested in
participating and engaging in an intellectual discourse with our guest
speakers during the question and answer session. On the day of the webinar,
you can even register as a department or as an organization in case you
would like to participate in the webinar with a group of colleagues in a
conference room.
We are looking forward to meeting and engaging with you during these
interesting and thought provoking webinars.
Very best regards,
Joel
Joell Arthur KIENDREBEOGO, MD, Health Economist
Chercheur au Centre Muraz / Researcher at Centre Muraz
(www.centre-muraz.bf <http://www.centre-muraz.bf/>\)
Health Policy and Systems Unit
*Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
Email: joel.kiendrebeogo@centre-muraz.bf
<joel.kiendrebeogo@centre-muraz.bf>*
1. Zika and Health Systems: Session Content (1 hour session)*
The role of health systems in detecting, preventing and responding to
infectious disease threats cannot be overemphasized. Global health security
remains vulnerable if there is inadequate local level security in each
country. In the immediate, it is critical to strengthen health systems to
mobilize and engage with communities and health workforce to adequately
respond to the Zika Outbreak .
This session, the second in a series of
webinars focusing on the Zika Outbreak, will provide a clinical overview of
the Zika Virus and explore health systems implications of the outbreak. Key
considerations and lessons learned from the outbreak for health systems
strengthening will be presented.
2. Biography of Speakers
Ms. Nana A. Mensah-Abrampah
Ms. Nana A. Mensah-Abrampah is a Technical Officer within the Service
Delivery and Safety Department at the World Health Organization (WHO),
Geneva. In this role, she facilitates WHO's work at the central and
district level in driving the safe reactivation of essential health
services and core health systems functions in the three Ebola-affected
countries. Within the context of Zika, Ms Mensah Abrampah provides
technical and strategic programmatic support on areas critical to health
service preparedness.
Prior to joining WHO, she worked as a consultant on quality improvement,
health systems thinking and the spread of sustainable innovations in
Tanzania. In Malawi, she worked at a tertiary referral hospital in Lilongwe
where she researched health system barriers for rational use of
antibiotics. For several years, she worked in numerous capacities under the
auspices of the USAID Health Care Improvement project, a global mechanism
for applying improvement approaches that enhance health care in more than
30 countries within Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Ms
Mensah-Abrampah has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and
holds a BSc Econ and a MSc in International Health.
Claire-Lise Chaignat
Dr Chaignat was trained and specialized as physician in internal medicine
in Switzerland. She performed her MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. She gained extensive field experience
mainly in Africa when she was a medical adviser for the Swiss Humanitarian
Aid Unit of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. During that
time her main activities in international public health involved planning,
execution and evaluation of humanitarian aid interventions in the
developing world. She was also a scientific collaborator for the Swiss
Tropical Institute and Director of the Support Centre for International
Health in N'Djamena, Chad.
In 2000, she joined WHO, based at Headquarters in Geneva. For numerous
years she has been in charge of the WHO Global Task Force on Cholera
Control, co-ordinating Cholera and epidemic diarrhoeal disease
surveillance, preparedness and response activities at global level with a
multidisciplinary approach. Activities have also focused on gaining
evidence and developing policy for use of oral cholera vaccines as an
additional public health tool. Recently she joined the department of
Service Delivery and Safety and has been involved in infection prevention
and control as well as Zika related matters.
Bruneton Carinne <carinne.bruneton@gmail.com>
e-med@healthnet.org