Infectious Diseases and HIV Conference

Global health security is about policies and actions required for preventing the possibility, early detection, and response to health threats.

This session is going to give an overview of the essential components of global health security, including surveillance, risk assessment, and response capabilities.

By the end of this session, participants will understand and appreciate why there is the need for a coordinated multi-sector approach to the protection of health. Preparedness is an important way of minimizing the impact of health threats. In this session, best practice activities related to preparedness in public health include emergency planning and resource allocation and professional training in healthcare.

The participants will find frameworks such as IHR and GHSA, which will be aimed at strengthening global capacities for preparedness and response. After all, effective response strategies cannot be achieved in health emergencies, such as infectious disease outbreaks.

This session will discuss recent outbreaks of COVID-19, Ebola, and Zika virus, including the strengths and weaknesses of the responses associated with each case. It is during this session that the role of timely communication, coordination among all stakeholders, and community involvement will guide effective response strategies to be accomplished.

At the national and international levels, non-governmental organizations increasingly participate in international partnerships to become the core of international health security.

This session strongly focuses on the role of international partnerships- data, resources, and expertise-for enhancing global health security. Participants will be updated on the best performing collaborations that have strengthened surveillance, vaccine development, and response strategies to new health threats.

The session will conclude by discussing the future of global health security in an increasingly interdependent world while participants identify innovative research areas, investment in health systems, and a place for technology in surveillance and response efforts.

The session insists that resilience in health infrastructures must be built in a fashion capable of addressing new and future health challenges.