Join us as the World Health Organization Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Team in partnership with the Collective Service launches the first Community Crowdsource event in its Cholera Webinar Series.The series aims to share lessons, mistakes, experiences and best practices from communities to communities. In the first webinar of the series, we will focus on the role of communities in strengthening water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to aid outbreak readiness and response.The webinar will feature speakers Laurent Sax, WASH Focal Point for the WHO Cholera and Epidemic Diarrheal Diseases Team; Bisimwa Lucien, Project Coordinator of the Picha-7 (Prevention Intervention for Cholera for 7 days); and other speakers to be confirmed. This event will be moderated by Leilia Dore, WHO RCCE Global Focal Point for Cholera.This webinar is open to everyone so please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think may be interested. Register here

In an effort to strengthen health system response and to better understand the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs of migrants from Venezuela and Central America, a collaborative call for research proposals was issued in 2019. Eleven projects from eight countries -Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru- were finally implemented. General findings will be presented during the webinar. Selected principal investigators will provide more detailed information about their research projects. The call was led by the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), in collaboration with TDR, AHPSR, CLAP/SMR and CEMICAMP. ObjectivesShare the findings from 11 research projects implemented in eight countries in Latin America depicting the impact of mass migration on SRHR, infectious diseases, and health system response. Discuss with key stakeholders the possible actions to mitigate the impact of migration on SRHR through a South-to-South collaboration. Share lessons learned on innovative responses to similar needs, including successes and failures.Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in Spanish, English and PortugueseRegisterIn 2018, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) established mass migration as a regional priority health issue in national, sub-regional, and regional agendas. In recent years, two simultaneous mass migratory regional phenomena in the Americas are occurring as people from Central American countries and Venezuela migrate to other countries in the region. Sexual and reproductive health and rights are integral to health and ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health services among migrants remains an important public health priority. There has been some evidence, though this has been limited, that migrants face greater challenges with regards to achieving their SRHR.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will participate in the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67), which will take place from 6 to 17 March 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters (UN HQ) in New York, United States of America. The CSW67 will be held under the priority theme “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.”   This year, WHO will hold two events at CSW67: 1. Improving the health of women through digital innovation, technology and education A flagship side event co-organized with the Republics of Chile and Rwanda will take place on Tuesday, 7 March at 08.15 EST (14.15 CET) at the UN HQ, Conference Room 8.   Speakers will discuss the role of digital innovation, technology and education in improving health outcomes for women and girls, especially those who experience compounding barriers to health and well-being.   Register here. The session will be webcast live on UN WebTV 2. Gender equity and rights in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases: the role of digital health The event, co-organized with the Republics of Liberia and Gambia, will take place on Monday, 6 March at 18:30 EST (00.30 CET) at the UN HQ, Conference Room 8. Participants will discuss the relevance of digital health interventions in the context of non-communicable diseases and the importance of ensuring women’s meaningful use of digital technologies. Register here. The session will be webcast live on UN WebTV The Commission on the Status of Women is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.  It is instrumental in promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world, and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

When: 1 March 2023, 13:00 – 14:00 CET. As part of the WHO EPI-WIN webinar series on influenza, this event will focus on influenza vaccines, such as what is important for seasonal influenza vaccines to be effective, and vaccine virus candidates for avian influenza.

The fourth meeting of the INB (INB4) will take place from 27 February - 3 March 2023. At this meeting, the INB will consider the Zero Draft of the instrument, developed by the Bureau of the INB following widespread consultation, and is expected to confirm whether the Zero Draft will be the basis of negotiations for a pandemic accord.

The second Steering committee meeting will be hosted by Health Education England. The hybrid meeting, with participation in person and virtual, will be held in London from 27-28 February 2023. Additional details will be shared with Steering Committee members in the coming days.Contact: workforce2030@who.int

The Seventeenth Council will take place on Monday, 27 February 2023, at 18:00-20:00 CET.