#COVIDPartnerships in the International Year of the Health and Care Worker: Protect. Invest. Together.
Join us as we reflect on what has been achieved by the Health Partnership community over the last year, and look to the future, recognising the immense pressure that continues to fall on health workers in every country, the deeply worrying increases in infection rates and the slow pace of vaccination campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
9.00 – 9.45 | Welcome and Opening
Remarks
Ben Simms – THET
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Judy Khanyola – University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
The challenge facing Sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Shams Syed – WHO
The global response we need
Dr Saleya Ahsan – NHS Emergency Medicine Doctor and Filmmaker
Personal perspective
Dr Bernhard Braune – Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
National commitment
9.45 – 10.00 | Break | Head to Pulse!
10.00 – 11.00 | Breakout sessions
ADVOCACY
Amanda Banda – Health Workers for All Coalition
Tom Buis – Wemos
Led by Wemos/the Health Workers for All Coalition, this session will provide participants with the opportunity to learn how they can contribute to health advocacy in the context of COVID-19, with a focus on vaccine equity, intellectual property, sharing experience across borders, and financing for health systems. You will leave this session with a sense of confidence and an understanding of how you can make a difference.
BEYOND COVID-19
Dörte Petit – ESTHER Switzerland
Fiona Rees – Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Mbao Chitundu – University Teaching Hopsital, Lusaka, Zambia
Droti Alfred & Opiyo Nicholas – Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
Dr Anita Sugavanam – Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
What has the pandemic taught us about the state of health and wellbeing globally? This session will lay the foundations for a collective view on how to strenghten health systems for the future and build back better.
RESPONDING TO COVID-19
Dr Méabh Ni Bhuinneáin – Mayo University Hospital, Ireland
Melissa Kleine-Bingham – Twinning
Partnership for Improvement between Macau SAR Health Bureau and Timor-Leste Cabinet of Quality Assurance in Health
Tafese Beyene Tufa – University Hospital of Heinrich
Dr Trish Scanlan – Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania
In this session we will hear how Health Partnerships have responded to the pandemic over the past year through innovation and technology, shifts in power dynamics, and adaptations in partnership and project priorities.
COMPASSION
Judy Khanyola – University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
Anne Mason – NHS Highland
This session will provide space for respectful and confidential reflection on the experiences of health workers over the past year. We will explore the role compassion can play in the lives of individuals.
11.00 – 11.15 | Break | Head to Pulse!
11.15 – 11.45 | Roundtable discussion
Dr Margaret Fitzgerald – HSE
Amanda Banda – Health Workers for All Coalition
Greg Harrison – Gulu Sheffield Mental Health Partnership
Dr Yoseph Mamo – THET Ethiopia
Reflections on themes and insights raised in the first breakout sessions.
12.00 – 13.00 | Breakout sessions
ADVOCACY
Howard Catton – International Council of Nurses
Professor Francis Omaswa – ACHEST
Charlotte Ashton – THET
This session will look more closely at the role individual health workers can play in advocating for change and including the challenge of overcoming ‘anti-science’ positions in communities and nations, whether these be expressed through stigma or national policy.
BEYOND COVID-19
Kirstin Grosse Frie – GIZ
Gracia Andriamiadana – Madagascar
Chris Carter – Birmingham City University
Priscar Mukonka – Lusaka College of Nursing & Midwifery, Zambia
Dr Caroline Benski – Geneva University Hospital
This session will highlight how Health Partnerships are looking beyond COVID-19 to lay the foundations for health and wellbeing underpinned by resilient health systems.
RESPONDING TO COVID-19
Claudia Aguirre – ESTHER Alliance
Dr Joe Gallagher – GP, Ireland
Prof Anthea Rhoda – UWC
Ghazanfar Khan – WHO
In this session we will hear how Health Partnerships plan to respond to the pandemic in the period to come.
WELLBEING
Dorcas Gwata – Global Health Consultant
Karen Frame – THET Clinical Advisor
Nick Pahl – Society of Occupational Medicine
Dr David Okello – ACHEST
Professor Marion Lynch – THET
Building on the conversations in the first part of the day, this session will examine psychological health and well-being from a personal, organisational and societal perspective and create recommendations to help us build a compassionate culture to support psychological well-being.
13.00 – 13.15 | Break | Head to Pulse!
13.15 – 13.45 | Roundtable discussion
Dr Omeima Sali – Ahfad University for Women, Sudan
Prof Marion Lynch – THET
Dr Wilson Mbewe – Kanyama Level 2 Hospital
Samuel Knaus – Madagascar Partnership
Reflections on themes and insights raised in the second breakout sessions and next steps.
13.45 – 13.50 | Pause
13.50 – 14.10 | Final roundtable discussion
Dr Shams Syed – WHO
Sarah Cavanagh – Commonwealth Pharmacists Association
Dr David Weakliam – HSE
Eunice Sinyemu – THET Zambia
Reflections on what has been achieved
during the conference and what the next steps should look like.
14.10 – 14.30 | Concluding remarks
Professor Francis Omaswa – ACHEST
Claudia Aguirre – ESTHER Alliance
Reflections on the conference and months to come
Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on what has been achieved by the Health Partnership community since our Partnerships in a time of COVID conference last April.
As with the previous conference, we are organising this with the support of our friends at WHO.
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