WHO | Week Ahead for media - 1 November 2024

No images? Click here Friday, 1 November 2024  | Issue 278   Subscribe to receive this weekly update   WHO / Fanjan Combrink Conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory WHO work on mpox Latest news from WHO and WHO events page 4-15 November Twelfth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) for a WHO instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response In December 2021, the World Health Assembly established an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument under the Constitution of the World Health Organization, to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. The Twelfth meeting of the INB is to be held in hybrid format from 4-15 November 2024. The opening and closing plenary sessions of the INB are open to WHO Member States, Associate Members, Observers and regional economic integration organizations, as well all relevant stakeholders. These sessions, on 4 November and 15 November, will be publicly webcast and archived for later viewing. Relevant stakeholders (Annexes A–E) will be invited to join for a brief open session at the beginning of each day to be updated on progress and provide their views on relevant Articles. Substantive negotiating sessions will be held in closed format. More information 4-10 November Medicine Safety Week From 4 to 10 November 2024, #MedSafetyWeek will focus on preventing side effects—a reminder to use medications safely and to report any suspected adverse reactions. By using medicines correctly, we can drastically reduce the risk of side effects and severe harm. And by reporting side effects when they occur, we can help make medicines safer for everyone. This is an international campaign led by Uppsala Monitoring Centre, WHO’s Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, involving 107 organizations across 94 countries. Campaign materials are embargoed until 00.01 (local time), 4 November 2024. Sunday, 3 November One Health Day One Health Day, celebrated annually on 3 November, is an international campaign co-coordinated by nongovernmental and civil society organizations. The goal of One Health Day is to attract global attention, increase public awareness and mobilize action.                                                             ******** RELATED ONE HEALTH EVENTS Evidence-based One Health Governance: Voice of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP) Date: Wednesday, 6 Nov 2024  Time: 12:00-13:00 (CET)   Registration link: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7_AUK4LDSLOyPOcLk2EqJg Objective   In order to institutionalize OH governance at national and community level, OH-specific frameworks, governing bodies, and policy harmonisation may be required depending on the context. The One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP), as the scientific advisory panel to the Quadripartite organizations, will continue focusing on providing the evidence-based advice on One Health governance, for strengthened coordination mechanisms, ensuring collaborative data-sharing surveillance systems and adequate funding toward successful implementation.  ******** One Health education: prepare the workforce for effective implementation    Date: Thursday, 7 November 2024  Time: 12:00-13:15 CET Registration link: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oMRSx5PwSUeePPKjVW1YoQ   Objective This webinar will showcase effective and accessible One Health (OH) education in different institutions globally.  ******** One WHO for One Health: Tackling health challenges through a holistic lens  Date: Friday, 8 Nov 2024  Time: 14:00 – 15:30 (CET) Registration link: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M_vlVTbfRkmoBtVjYP7IWQ  Objective  This webinar will give an overview of WHO’s overall efforts on One Health, highlight the One Health implementation in specific technical Programmes and show how the One Health approach has been widely used in different health interventions. Monday, 4 November Press conference ahead of Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children When: Monday, 4 November 2024, 16h CET/Geneva (No embargo)  WHO is supporting the first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children, to be held in Bogota, Colombia, 7-8 November.  This first-of-its-kind event will set the stage for more than 120 countries, with over 80 Ministerial attendees, to agree landmark commitments to end childhood violence. Half of all children globally -- close to 1 billion -- suffer some kind of violence, whether at home, at school, in the community or online, including physical punishment, bullying, and emotional and sexual abuse.  The press conference on 4 November will offer background information about the impacts of violence against children, the forms it takes and how it can be prevented -- as well as a preview of milestone moments expected at the ministerial conference.  Reporters can request interviews on the topic or the conference and request embargoed materials by writing to cdrysdale@who.int and cc'ing and mediainquiries@who.int. More information Detailed information on the event To join the press conference:  https://who.zoom.us/j/94455089858 Password: 4NovVpc@ Telephone: Webinar ID: 944 5508 9858 Password: 05870141 International numbers available: https://who.zoom.us/u/acztvF8oMD Tuesday, 5 November Launch of WHO global priority endemic pathogens for vaccine research and development On 5 November 2024, 01:30 CET, eBioMedicine will publish a WHO study naming the top priority endemic pathogens for new vaccine research and development (R&D). The WHO study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize pathogens that cause diseases regularly in communities, based on criteria that includes regional disease burden, antimicrobial resistance risk, and socio-economic impact, among others.  The list provides an equitable and transparent evidence base to set regional and global agendas for new vaccine R&D and manufacturing, and is intended to give academia, funders, manufacturers and countries a clear direction on where vaccine R&D could have the most impact. For queries or interview requests, please contact mediainquiries@who.int Thursday, 7 November Launch of the COP29 special report on climate and health and a guidance on integrating health into Nationally Determined Contributions In the lead up to COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, WHO will release two key documents highlighting the importance of climate action to improve health and wellbeing: the COP29 special report on climate change and health – Health is the argument for climate action and Quality criteria for integrating health into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). In these documents, WHO stresses the importance of positioning health at the core of all climate negotiations, strategies, policies and action plans, to save lives and secure healthier futures for present and future generations. An embargoed press conference will take place at 14.00 CET on 07 November, in which Dr Maria Neira, Director of the WHO’s Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health; Dr Vanessa Kerry, WHO Director-General Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health; and Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Team Lead, Climate Change and Health at WHO will present the reports, brief on health initiatives at COP29 and discuss health arguments for immediate and decisive action by climate negotiators at COP29.  Further details, including dial-in codes, will be sent in a separate media advisory. The embargoed documents will be available upon request on 5 November. To obtain a copy, or to request an interview with WHO experts, please write to smailbegovica@who.int (and a copy to mediainquiries@who.int). Other events of interest to the journalists: Translating the Global Research Agenda on Health, Migration and Displacement into Evidence-Informed Policies (7 November) Selection of stories on WHO's work in emergencies South Sudan intensifies efforts to curb cholera outbreak South Sudan declares cholera outbreak in Renk, Upper Nile State WHO and the UK sign an agreement to support patients from Gaza in Egypt   WHO events here Sign up for our newsletters here Check out the WHO series, Science in 5 Access WHO photos available for media use here WHO media contacts: mediainquiries@who.int You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Do not reply to media@campaign.who.int as it is an unmonitored mailbox. Journalists may write to mediainquiries@who.int.         Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Unsubscribe