Webinar | Donor and Funding Challenges for LMICs – Hospital Readiness, EU-WIDE

Date
27 Mar 2020
Time
13:00 - 15:00, GMT
Link
WEEKLY WEBINAR SERIES – Irish Global Health Network and ESTHER Alliance for Global Health Partnerships

Conversations on COVID-19 
TIME: Friday’s at 1pm

WEBINAR WEEK 2: Donor and Funding Challenges for LMICs – Hospital Readiness, EU-WIDE

The second webinar will be held on Friday 27/03/2020 at 1:00 pm GMT.

SPEAKERS: WEEK 2

Erika Placella, Deputy Head of the SDC Global Program Health, The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation:  

Speaker TBC, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria,   

Unarose Hogan, WHO Consultant, COVID-19 Hospital Readiness  

ANCHOR:
Prof Ruairi Brugha, MB, BCh, BAO, MD, FFPHMI, MSc, DCH, Dip Obs, Dip Humanities:medical doctor, public health specialist and Professor and Head of the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland since 2005. 

PANELIST:

Erika Placella; Deputy Head of the Global Health programme of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Ms Placella leads the development of global initiatives aiming at contributing to major health challenges, including global health governance issues.

PANELIST:

Unarose Hogan: Infection Control Technical Advisor currently working with WHO on COVID-19 Hospital Readiness, previously with US CDC in Vietnam for global health security; lead infection control for medical operations with United Nations Mission Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER) in Sierra Leone during Ebola response; infection control educator for New York University in Rwanda. Has also worked in Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, Albania with GIZ; Irish Aid and WHO. Clinical background in infection control. 

WEBINAR CONTENT

Ruairi will give us a quick overview of what we know so far about the pandemic 

Erika will discuss the possible donor and funding related challenges during COVID-19 and how to best support during the response in LMICs 

Our speaker from the Global Fund will talk about how and why existing funding has been made available to governments for preparedness and response 

Unarose will share her perspective and information about how hospitals in Europe and in LMICs can best prepare for the increase in care needed