Date: Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Time: 13:00-15:00
Venue: Auditorium Ivan Pictet, Geneva Graduate Institute, Chem. Eugène-Rigot 2, 1202 Geneva
The PANdemic preparedness plaTform for Health and Emerging infections Response (PANTHER) is hosting an event on the sidelines of the 76th World Health Assembly to discuss how to better prepare for and respond to outbreaks, before they hit the headlines, and even if they “only” affect remote regions.
Agenda
Part I – Fast, effective research is key to outbreak response, what is the reality on the ground? Mpox case studies Congo DRC and Brazil
Chair: Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, General Delegate, PANTHER; COVID and Preparedness Response Director, DNDi
Introduction: Maha El Rabbat, Professor of Public Health, Cairo University, WHO Director General Special Envoy on COVID-19
Speakers:
- Van Kawaya, Kinshasa University, Tropical Medicine
- Beatriz Grinsztejn, Evandro Chagas National Infectiology Institute FIOCRUZ
Part II – How can global action really meet local needs in emerging outbreaks?
Chair: Samba Sow, Director, CVD Mali; President, PANTHER
Speakers:
- Dimié Ogoina, Chief Medical Director, Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital; President, Nigeria Infectious Diseases Society
- Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Director, ANRS | Emerging Infectious Diseases; Vice-President, PANTHER
- Mimi Darko, CEO, Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana
- Marie Jaspard, ALIMA
- Veronika Von Messling, Director General, Life Science Division, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF)
Closing remarks
Speakers:
- Ahmed Ouma Ogwell, Acting Deputy Director General, Africa CDC
- Ahmed Mandil, Coordinator, Research & Innovation, Science, Information & Dissemination, WHO/EMRO
