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Governance:

Building WHOs capacity to respond

to emergencies with healthconsequences

17 May 2015


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Evolution of the Eboba outbreak

OriginalEpicenter


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Evolution of the Ebola outbreak

2 x burialteams

2 x Ebola tx beds

BehaviourchangeCommownership

Casefinding

Contact tracing

Classic Ebola

Response


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WHOs role in fighting Ebola

Information & Data

Data to quantify the epidemic

60 technical documents and guidelines

People

Rapid deployment >2000 technical experts, >500through GOARN, staff for 26 mobile laboratories, >100logisticians, 58 foreign medical teams

Hospitals

Built 5 Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs), technical supportfor 70+ ETUs, 150+ community care & holding centres


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WHOs role in fighting Ebola

Equipment

Delivered > 1.4 million kits Personal ProtectiveEquipment

Research & Development

Investigation of vaccines, drugs, therapies, anddiagnostics

Coordination & Partnership

Coordinated health response to Ebola across West

Africa (3+4+)


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On 25 January 2015, WHOs Executive Board convened in a

Special Session to consider the Ebola outbreak and WHOs

capacity to respond to emergencies with health consequences

The Board adopted resolution EBSS3.R1 Ebola: ending the

current outbreak, strengthening global preparedness and

ensuring WHOs capacity to prepare for and respond to future

large-scale outbreaks and emergencies with health

consequences

EBSS

Reform of WHO's capacities respond to

emergencies with health consequences


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To ensure that WHO is able to direct, coordinate and mount a

comprehensive and rapid response to disease outbreaks and

emergencies with health consequences.

To ensure that WHO is able to effectively support the building

and strengthening of Member States' capacities to prepare for,

detect and manage the risks posed by such emergencies and

minimize their health impact.

Goals:




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Functions:

Normative + technical

guidance

Health information and

surveillance

Risk communications

Operations

Building sustainable

capacity

Directing &coordinating




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Areas for Action:

i.Advocacy

ii.Human Resource capacities

within WHO

iii.Human Resource capacities

global health emergency workforce

(GHEW)

iv.Financing for emergencies

Contingency fund

v.Structures / business processes

vi.Partnerships

vii.IHR

viii.Community engagement

ix.Communications




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WHOs capacity to respond to

emergencies with health consequences:

WHA discussions

1. Interim Assessment

2. Omnibus report (+ IHR)

3. Global Health Emergency

Workforce (GHEW)

4. Contingency Fund


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1. Establish a Contingency Fund

2. Endorse plan for GHEW

3. Convene an IHR Review Committee

4. Extend the mandate of the Ebola Interim

Assessment Panel

Decision Points:

WHOs capacity to respond to

emergencies with health consequences:

WHA discussions

katherine deland_building who’s capacity to respond to emergencies with health consequences_17 may

Documents