Advancing Global Health Security: From

Commitments to Actions
Session 1.1 : From Cape Town to Bali: What has been achieved?
Monday 27 June, 09.30-10.30
Chair: Ms Malebona Precious Matsoso, Director-General of Health, South
Africa
This session is a high-level discussion in which country representatives and
stakeholders will present successes and challenges in advancing key elements of
health security, and address how this fits within the overall drive to achieve the
Sustainable Development Goals.
I.

Background & Outline of the session

Over the past year, a number of important actions have been taken by Member
States, WHO and partners. Highlights include the following:

Twenty countries in the African Region were supported in strengthening

emergency preparedness across coordination, surveillance and early
warning, rapid response, outbreak logistics, health system improvement,
and system testing through exercises
WHO created the Strategic Partnership Portal (SPP) to foster transparency
and coordination
The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) tool was developed and deployed in five
countries, and planned for rollout in a further twelve in 2016
Multi-partner initiatives such as the Global Health Security Agenda are
accelerating activities to improve capacity building.

All such activities and multisectoral initiatives contribute to preparedness and

health systems strengthening to achieve a common goal: enabling countries to
prevent, detect, assess, report and respond to existing and emerging health
threats. With the development of a new WHO Programme for Health
Emergencies, WHO is advocating an all-hazard approach to the management of
health risks, and will increase support to Member States to build capacities to
manage health emergency risks.
The World Economic Forum style will be applied for this high level debate,
speakers will make interventions without Power Point presentation. Instead we
use the session as an open dialogue between countries, international
organisations, financial and technical partners.
Panel Discussion:

H.E. Ms Edith Schippers, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport,

The Netherands (by video message) : Through a video message, the
Minister of Health of Netherlands will address the issue of collaboration
between health and other sectors to respond effectively to threats. She

will notably mention the need to strengthen joint collaboration between

the health and agriculture sectors to fight antimicrobial resistance.
H.E. Nila. F. Moeloek, Minister of Health, Republic of Indonesia:
The Minister of Health of Indonesia will address the issue of zoonoses. She
will advocate for a stronger engagement and collaboration between the
health, animal and agriculture sectors to achieve global health security.
H.E. Mr Ram Jnam Chaudhari, Minister of Health, Nepal: The
Minister of Nepal will describe the key element of Nepal's lesson learnedsuccess story and share best practices of Nepal's preparedness and
response. As an epidemic and natural disasters prone country, Nepal will
provide some experience of a whole government approach as well as
intersectoral collaboration for health security and emergencies.
H.E. Aishath Rameela, Minister of State for Health, Maldives: H.E.
Aishath Rameela will remind the audience of the risks to which the
country is exposed, in particular in relation to climate change. The
Minister will also insist on the need to implement actions and policies
guided by the principles of prevention and preparedness, and to continue
to build capacity for disaster response as per the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reductionparticularly in small island lower- and middleincome states.
H.E Maria do ceu Sarmento Pina, Minister of Health, Timor Leste:
The Minister of Timor Leste will highlight the need to enhance regional
cooperation and cooperation between countries facing similar risks for
technical and substantive mutual support with the goal of strengthening
health security.
Amb. Jean-Marie Ehouzou, Permanent Representative of the
African Union in Geneva: Ambassador Ehouzou will highlight the
challenges faced by the African countries who have recently or are still
facing outbreaks (Cholera, Yellow fever, Meningitis). He will present and
encourage initiatives of the African Union, WHO, WB and others which aim
at strengthening emergency preparedness through better coordination,
improved surveillance and early warning systems and rapid response
mechanisms.
Mrs Paivi Sillanaukee, Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Health,
Finland : Mrs Sillanaukee will present the key achievements of the Joint
External Evaluation (JEE) process, including the 7 recently conducted
missions. As Chair of the GHSA Steering Group in 2015, Finland has played
an active role in promoting the JEE and is currently leading the Global
Health Security Alliance initiative that engages with international
organizations and other stakeholders interested in country Joint External
Evaluations.
Mr Go Tanaka, Counsellor at Office of Measures on Emerging
Infectious Diseases, Office for pandemic influenza preparedness
and response, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan: Mr Tanaka will come back
on the commitments of the G7 countries to address global health security
challenges, including the initiative which aims at assisting 76 countries to
implement IHR through the GHSA and other multilateral initiatives. During
its presidency of the G7, Japan presented the the Ise-Shima Vision for
Global Health which addresses response to public health emergencies,
universal health coverage and the issue of antimicrobial resistance.

High Level Interventions from the floor:

II.

Mr Patrick Osewe, The World Bank

Dr Jose Fernandez, US HHS
The following session

The following session is Looking to the future: Operationalising Preparedness for

health emergencies and will be chaired by Dr Victor Bampoe, Vice-Minister of
Health, Ghana.