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No images? Click here Monday, 18 October 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY Launch of a new World Health Organization position paper on building health systems resilience for universal health coverage and health security during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond When: Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 12.00 to 14.00 CEST The new WHO paper highlights the critical need to ensure that health is positioned at the heart of discussions about post-pandemic socioeconomic recovery and transformation. It calls for renewed and heightened national and global commitment to build resilient health systems that will be strong enough to keep people safe - now and in the longer term - through the integration of universal health coverage and health security efforts. This will require countries to: invest in primary health care and essential public health functions while addressing gaps in health systems foundations strengthen preparedness to tackle all forms of public health threatsensure whole-of-government and whole-of-society engagement to position health as central to socioeconomic growth and resilienceSpeakers: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-GeneralDr Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Deputy Director-GeneralDr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies ProgrammeDr Suraya Dalil, Director of WHO Special Programme on Primary Health CareDr Stella Chungong, Director of Health Security Preparedness, WHO Health Emergencies ProgrammeThe event will include a panel discussion with representatives from WHO regional offices and Member States. Follow live on WHO event page. Media contacts: You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list.
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