👉 Developing a framework to map #community #structures and #assets will help to:

✅ enable understanding
✅ leverage strengths
✅ provide opportunities,

tailored to #emergency response for communities.

#WHOImpact #WHEBalkanHub #WHOPristinaOffice #RCCE #UnitedActionForBetterHealth

🤝Engaging and💪empowering local #communities and stakeholders in emergencies preparedness, readiness and response.

📌Never before, #CommunityEngagement has been a priority public health intervention in #HealthEmergencies.

#WHOEurope #WHEBalkanHub #WHOPristinaOffice #RCCE

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⚙️Tools like #NAPHS bring health security into the 🔦 spotlight.

✅ They help countries assess their
capabilities, focus on critical activities and detail important steps to ensure #HealthSecurity for our citizens and communities.

#UnitedActionForBetterHealth
#WHOEurope
#WHEBalkanHub

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✍️ Learning and ▶️ working with National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) to ensure #WesternBalkans can protect its people from disease threats.

📝 Lessons learned from the #COVID19 pandemic and other health emergencies highlighted the need to strengthen #IHR2005 capacities.

#WHEBalkanHub #WHOEurope

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📌 Participants shared practical experience from across countries and areas on what works and provided recommendations for the most effective RCCE-IM planning approaches to controll #health #emergencies.

#WHOImpact #HealthForAll #WHOEurope #WHEBalkanHub #UnitedActionForBetterHealth

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✅ Supporting #RiskCommunication, #CommunityEngagement and #InfodemicManagement (RCCE-IM) planning for health emergencies in the Western Balkans.

👉 Evidence-based RCCE-IM is crucial to effective health emergency response, which protects health and saves lives.

#WHOEurope #WHEBalkanHub #WHE #RCCE #IM #UnitedActionForBetterHealth

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☑️ Inputs and discussions among participants will help #WHO and stakeholders to advance respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness (RPPP), as #PRET marks an evolution in World Health Organization’s approach to RPPP through a mode of transmission lens application, rather than focus on specific diseases.

#WHEBalkanHub #UnitedActionForBetterHealth

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5⃣6⃣ public health officials from the #WesternBalkans 🇦🇱🇧🇦🇲🇪🇲🇰🇷🇸🇽🇰 & 🇲🇩met in #Instanbul 🇹🇷 on the #WHOEuropean Region's first workshop - financially supported by the European Union 🇪🇺 - to roll out #PRET and strengthen pandemic preparedness

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https://www.who.int/europe/news-room/events/item/2023/06/14/default-calendar/a-new-era-for-respiratory-pathogen-pandemic-preparedness----who-sub-regional-workshop-for-the-western-balkans

#UnitedActionForBetterHealth #WHEBalkanHub

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📢 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

#WHOEurope #WHEBalkanHub #WHOImpact #WesternBalkans #ProudToBeWHO
#UnitedActionForBetterHealth

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▶️ Such a great opportunity to have joined and talked about #RiskCommunication, #CommunityEngagement and #InfodemicManagement in the framework of #CommunityProtection in World Health Organization's first respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness meeting in #Istanbul 🇹🇷

#WHO #WHOEurope #WHEBalkanHub
#UnitedActionForBetterHealth

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#EIW2023, a moment to talk 💬 about the importance of regular #immunization and how #Risk #Communication and #Community #Engagement interventions can support these efforts.

#Vaccines, as the greatest achievement of medical science, prevented the emergence of many diseases.

#WHEBalkanHub #WHO75

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#EveryDoseCounts 💙 to protect you & those you love!

✅ Yes, #VaccinesWork!

Honored and privileged to join colleagues & partners from WHO, the Institute of Public Health in the Federation of BiH, WHO Country Office in BiH in and UNICEF BiH, in an open discussion in Sarajevo and talk about #EuropeanImmunizationWeek2023, a pillar in what the World Health Organization is calling the year of ‘The Big Catch Up’ - the year-long global push to support countries to get back om track to ensure every child is protected from preventable diseases.

#WHEBalkanHub #VaccinesSaveLives #HealthForAll #WHO75

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Such a great experience in delivering two back-to-back #risk #communication & #community #engagement capacity-building activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This time, the #RCCE planning for a postCOVID Europe exercise went to Sarajevo, FBiH, on 26-27 April.

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#WHEBalkanHub

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.

#WHEBalkanHub #WesternBalkans #ProudToBeWHO #RCCE #InfodemicManagement #Preparedness #CapacityBuilding

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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.

#WHEBalkanHub #WesternBalkans #ProudToBeWHO #RCCE #InfodemicManagement #Preparedness #CapacityBuilding

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As we build back better post-pandemic, we must step up #OneHealth efforts to better prepare for and respond to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.

#WHEBalkanHub #AssefaAbebayehuMengistu #PeterSousaHoejskov

Learn more about WHO Regional Office for Europe’s work on ‘One Health’ approach👇

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/12-04-2023-bringing-human--animal-and-environmental-health-together--one-health-in-practice-across-the-who-european-region

Today is #WorldHealthDay and our #WHO75 birthday!

To mark the occasion, #WHEBalkanHub joined Prof. Dr. Dana Grujičić, the Minister of Health of Serbia and Dr. Fabio Scano, World Health Organization Representative and Head of WHO Country Office in Serbia, in an open discussion with university students on #HealthForAll

On the eve of the #WorldHealthDay and WHO’s 75th birthday, a photo opportunity with my #WHEBalkanHub friend Dr Abebayehu Assefa Mengistu.

Join the World Health Organization on a journey to achieve #HealthForAll and tackle the health challenges of today ̶ and tomorrow.

#WHO75

45 journalists, public health officials and communication specialists from 9 Southeast European countries/areas came together in a joint the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the WHO Health Emergencies (WHE) Programme in the Balkans (#WHEBalkanHub) and the Southeast European Center for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases (#SECID) workshop, under the framework of #CDC supported project, to learn more about media reporting and #ScienceJournalism in #health #emergencies.

#RCCE

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Mobile health #caravans rally the #WesternBalkans to #COVID19 #vaccination, bringing #health advice closer to where people are, @WHO_Europe says.

#VaccinesSaveLives #VaccinesWork #ProudToBeWHO #WHEBalkanHub #HealthForAll

Read more 👉 https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/20-03-2023-mobile-health-caravans-rally-the-western-balkans-to-covid-19-vaccination--bringing-health-advice-closer-to-where-people-are