And we will sustain our focus on getting accurate information to people, building on our work with key partners to protect populations from infodemics. We also plan to establish a Bio Bank – a globally agreed system for sharing pathogen materials and clinical samples to facilitate the rapid development of safe and effective vaccines and medicines. We will leverage existing partnerships and create new ones to build a global health emergencies workforce to expand, train and standardize high-quality public health and medical assistance. We will target support to better protect the most vulnerable communities against health emergency risks, including in urban settings, small island countries, conflict settings. We will also help tackle health emergencies in humanitarian settings that have been intensified by COVID-19. Above all, this pandemic has shown us over and again, that no one is safe until everyone is safe. But for this to be effective, we will ensure that countries work together. WHO will work with countries to improve their own preparedness for pandemics and health emergencies. And we will support them in building strong health systems and healthy populationsīuild global solidarity for worldwide health security We will remind them of the importance of bringing countries together and of involving the whole government, not just the health sector. We will work to help countries strengthen preparedness for pandemics and other emergencies. WHO and its partners will be at their side. They will need to move swiftly to repair and reinforce their health systems so they can deliver these tools, and to address the key societal and environmental issues that result in some sections of the population suffering so much more than others. So in 2021, countries around the world will need to continue battle COVID-19 (albeit with the knowledge that effective tools are evolving). In another blow, the pandemic threatens to set back hard-won global health progress achieved over the past two decades - in fighting infectious diseases, for example, and improving maternal and child health.

Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both tackle COVID-19, and provide people with vital care. A previously unknown virus raced around the world, rapidly emerging as one of its top killers, laying bare the inadequacies of health systems. Seung-hwan Shin, Visiting Lecturer of Korean Studies and Film & Media Studies, and is cosponsored by National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).2020 was a devastating year for global health. This book discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Thursday, April 20th, 2023 | 5 PM to 8 PM Learn more about Daria: A Roma Woman's Journey This book discussion is cosponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thursday, March 16th, 2023 | 5 PM to 8 PM Learn more about They Called Us Enemyīy Positive Negatives and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) This book discussion will be facilitated by English PhD student Sophia Pan from the University of Florida and is cosponsored by the Asian Studies Center. Thursday, February 16th, 2023 | 5 PM to 8 PM Learn more about Threads: From the Refugee Crisis.īy George Takei, Justin Eisinger, & Steven Scott Mark Best, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film and Media Studies, and is co-sponsored by the European Studies Center and the Center for European Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thursday, January 12th 2023 | 5 PM to 8 PM Learn more about All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa. Francis Episcopal School in Houston, Texas, and is co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies and Howard University's Center for African Studies. This book discussion was facilitated by Jared Staller, PhD, an Upper School History Faculty member at St.

Thursday, November 17th, 2022 | 5 PM to 8 PM Learn more about Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling.Īll Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa The discussion was facilitated by Celena Todora, PhD Candidate, Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

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