📢 A new era for respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness
👉 World Health Organization’s 🆕 #PRET (preparedness and resilience for emerging threats) Initiative helps countries better prepare for future epidemics and pandemics building on 📕 lessons learned from the #COVID19 #pandemic
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Together with my dear colleague Lisa Berthelot, from the WHO Regional Office for Europe, and invaluable support from Lejla Beglerovic, from the WHO Country Office in Bosnia Herzegovina,delivered a two-day capacity-building workshop in Banja Luka between 24 and 25 April, helping 15 senior local public health officials, RCCE and #communication experts develop their skills by applying the 10-step approach for creating state-of-the-art RCCE plans and providing insights into the challenges of an #emergency #response.
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Supporting health authorities in Republika Srpska with #RiskCommunication and #CommunityEngagement planning for a post-COVID Europe, to ensure that they are better prepared and able to respond to future #emergencies in this core emergency #capacity.
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Mobile health #caravans rally the #WesternBalkans to #COVID19 #vaccination, bringing #health advice closer to where people are, @WHO_Europe says.
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Supporting Albanian health authorities to strengthen the country’s #emergency #preparedness and #response, including #RiskCommunication and #CommunityEngagement capacities and activities for #PublicHealth emergencies.
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Teams reflected on the #RCCE response and identified lessons learned to ensure that countries in Europe are better prepared to face future emergencies, as we shift from emergency response to recovery, #BuildingBackBetter and preparedness.
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This training aimed to equip #healthworkers with knowledge, skills, confidence and resources to assist in recommending #COVID19 and #HPV vaccines.
Participants were provided training on the #motivational #interviewing approach to structure #interpersonal #communication with people.
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🧵#HealthWorkers are #key in maintaining public #trust in #vaccination! 💉
As trusted sources, they must not only be confident in their knowledge and influence on patients, but also know how to #effectively #communicate with each patient.
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🧵World Health Organization's Country Office in Skopje and #USAID support the Ministry of Health and North Macedonian public health authorities in the #COVID19 response, building solid pillars of #preparendess and #response for future #PublicHealth #emergencies
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Learn more from #WHO Regional Office for Europe's newly-published implementation guidance: “Advancing #InfodemicManagement in #RiskCommunication and #CommunityEngagement in the WHO European Region” 👉 bit.ly/3tZONDV
 
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Learn more from #WHO Regional Office for Europe's newly-published implementation guidance: “Advancing #InfodemicManagement in #RiskCommunication and #CommunityEngagement in the WHO European Region” 👉 bit.ly/3tZONDV
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