COVID-19 Global Governance and Operations in Low-Resource Health Settings: Moving Past Problems Toward Solutions

Title: COVID-19 Exposed Hegemony and Holes in Global Health Governance: Moving Past Problems Toward Solutions

Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Time: 1 – 2:50pm EDT/ 6-7:50pm GMT+1

Join Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health in a panel discussion of COVID-19 Exposed Hegemony and Holes in Global Health Governance: Moving past problems toward solutions. This panel will discuss a range of issues exacerbated by the pandemic, including the application of the International Health Regulations (IHR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), maintaining the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), the development and implementation of the COVAX Facility, global COVID-19 vaccine equity objectives, and the development of a 'Humanitarian Buffer' to facilitate access to COVID-19 vaccines for crisis-affected populations.

Speakers:

Dr. Paul Spiegel, Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Former Deputy Director of DPSM at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Dr. Qudsia Huda, Head of Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Unit in the World Health Organization’s Health Emergency Program, Geneva, Switzerland

Kate Elder, Senior Vaccines Policy Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign, New York, USA

Dr. Jeanine Condo, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Rwanda and adjunct Associate Professor at Tulane University; Member of the GAVI Evaluation Advisory Committee and the African Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee

Moderator: Dr. Rachel T. Moresky, Director, sidHARTe - Strengthening Emergency Systems & Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Programs, Columbia University Population and Family Health & Emergency Medicine

Title: Global COVID-19 Prevention and Response: Realities of Operations in Low-Resource Health Settings

Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Time: 1 – 2:50pm EDT/ 6-7:50pm GMT+1

Join our panel discussion of COVID-19 operations issues in low-resource health settings. Using a socioecological approach will discuss the implementation of COVID-19 prevention, and the decreasing transmission includes co-created community initiatives, regional and national implementation. We will also discuss the development of vaccine research policies, strategies, and priorities; planning COVID-19 interventions in affected countries and regions to strengthen the prevention, detection, and response to the pandemic; and the challenges facing COVID-19 operations in Brazil and other countries.

Speakers: Dr. Amanda McClelland, Senior Vice President of the Prevent Epidemics Team at Resolve to Save Lives

Dr. Martin Howell Friede, WHO Coordinator for the Initiative for Vaccine Research, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Marcela Allheimen*, Director, Medical Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières Brazil

Dr. Monica Dhand, Médecins Sans Frontières Brazil

*pending final confirmation