WHO WATCH: One Health — Global Collaboration for Emerging Health Threat Detection

‘The Global Early Warning and Prevention System (GLEWS) identifies and monitors disease events, develops epidemiological intelligence for identification and mitigation of risks against emerging, endemic and epidemic diseases, and threats to environmental health and food security. The Tripartite (FAO, WHO and WOAH) collaborate and work together for an operational global One Health Intelligence system. This webinar explains how this is done.’

Objectives:

• To describe the role of GLEWS+ in promoting early warning and detection of emerging health threats.
• To explain how WHO, FAO, and WOAH collaborate to operationalize One Health Intelligence.
• To illustrate how GLEWS+ detects, verifies, and disseminates signals of public health risks.
• To describe the types of signals captured by GLEWS+ and their importance for global health security.

Agenda:

• Welcome remarks: Abdi Mahamud — Director, Alert & Response Coordination Department, WHO
• Opening remarks from WOAH: Montserrat Arroyo — Deputy Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)
• Presentation: One Health Intelligence: “GLEWS+” the Joint FAO-WHO-WOAH Global Early Warning System for health threats and emerging risks at the human-animal-ecosystem interface Dubravka-Dunja Selenic — Team Lead, Public Health Intelligence, WHO
• Panel discussion: Dubravka-Dunja Selenic, WHO; Ismaila Seck, FAO; Itlala Gizo, WOAH
• Q&A
• Closing remarks: Madhur Dhingra — Head of the Emergency Prevention System for Animal Health, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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