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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:
Reform of WHO's capacities respond to
emergencies with health consequences
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Functions:
Normative + technical
guidance
Health information and
surveillance
Risk communications
Operations
Building sustainable
capacity
Directing &coordinating
Reform of WHO's capacities respond to
emergencies with health consequences
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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
Reform of WHO's capacities respond to
emergencies with health consequences
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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
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