Taiwan’s International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF), Korean INGO-Good Neighbors International and U.S. social enterprise, Dimagi Inc., will jointly hold a webinar entitled “Strengthening the Public Health System for Maintaining Essential Health Services during the COVID19 Pandemic” on May 25, 18:00 (Bangkok Time). The webinar is aimed at highlighting 2011 as “Year of Health and Care Workers and ”Protect. Invest. Together” addressed by WHO’s 2011 agenda.
Taiwan’s Deputy Director-General of CDC of Ministry of Health and Welfare, Dr. Philip Lo, will give a featured address on “Healthcare Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 Taiwan.” The speakers from Taiwan, U.S., South Korea, and St.Kitts and Nevis will share the strategy and practice on the preserving and strengthening of healthcare system and service for pandemic-fighting. The agenda for topics and speakers is as follows.
The webinar is free to participate and no pre-registration is required. Please link to https: //youtu.be/HjarK1fTNNA for viewing and further interaction with the speakers can be channeled via https://app.sli.do/event/e7ohqltk
Topics and Speakers
Welcome and introduction: Dr. Marcellino Ha Eun Seong
Representative, Good Neighbors International Cooperation Office, Geneva; Chief Humanitarian Coordinator, Good Neighbors International
Opening remarks: H.E. Timothy T. Y. Hsiang
Secretary General, TaiwanICDF
Featured address: Healthcare preparedness and response to
COVID-19 in Taiwan
Dr. Philip Y. C. Lo, Deputy Director-General,
Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Ministry of
Health and Welfare, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Panel:
- Challenges, we encounter- the challenges that health and care workers
are facing
Dr. Hoon Sang Lee
Representative Partner, Global Health Development Partners
Visiting Professor, School of Public Policy, Kyung Hee University
- Protect, we deliver-the protection of health and care workers
for safe health care delivery
Dr. Pai Po Lee, Deputy Secretary General,
TaiwanICDF
- Invest, we facilitate- how modern technology improves the efficiency
of health care delivery
Dr. Neal Lesh, Chief Strategy Officer,
Dimagi Inc.
- Together, we can- how leaders of St. Kitts and Nevis mobilize
health andcare workers and the civil society to fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic
Dr. Hazel Laws, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health,
St. Kitts and Nevis
Question and answer
