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Issue N. 6 February 2022
The Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department at PAHO, launched a quarterly newsletter in December 2020 to help personnel and external audiences stay informed about the work of WHO Collaborating Centres (CCs) located in the Region of the Americas, in support of our goals and mandates.
In this issue, we provide a global perspective of CCs and showcase how they are supporting both global and regional mandates. Scroll through to see the distribution of CCs, video interviews, and brief stories of CCs' support to PAHO/WHO.
See How CCs are Supporting PAHO/WHO
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
Chief Scientist, WHO
Dr. Swaminathan speaks on how WHO CCs and its networks support WHO’s global mandates and goals and how the mechanism can be further strengthened.
Dr. Devora Kestel, Director, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO
Dr. Kestel explains how the PAHO/WHO CC for Capacity Building and Training in Global Mental Health (USA-421) at Columbia University is working to standardize International Classification of Diseases (ICD) terminology related to mental health.
ACTIVITY: The network's members work together to provide support to WHO on children’s environmental health (CEH). Examples of this collaboration include: providing input for the first WHO report on e-waste and child health; and developing background documents and journal reviews, among others.
IMPACT: These activities are building evidence and research capacities for CEH globally and developing interventions aimed at reducing exposure and preventing/decreasing the burden of disease for children.
ACTIVITY: WHO CC personnel visited the Gambia for a validation exercise of the “National Occupational Health and Safety Policy for Protection of Health Care Workers” with 30 members of the Gambian Ministry of Health (MoH).
IMPACT: The validation exercise led to a policy document which will be promoted as ‘best practices’ in regional training efforts within the Gambia.
ACTIVITY: The CCs provided support for a major WHO initiative to address challenges in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by contributing to an 18-month deliberation on the Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health guidance document.
IMPACT: By identifying the ethical concerns raised by AI and providing frameworks to address such concerns, the document will help support the responsible use of AI in health by technology developers, ministries of health and healthcare workers, so all populations can benefit equally from these technologies.
Read our Previous Newsletters
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 2 (December 2020)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 3 (March 2021)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 4 (June 2021)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 5 (September 2021)
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