WHO opens hub on pandemic and epidemics in Berlin

The World Health Organization (WHO) inaugurated an Intelligence Center on Pandemics and Epidemics in Berlin, whose mission will be to provide nations with the best data and research that will allow timely decision-making for the detection and effective approach of diseases and health emergencies.

To fulfill its purpose, the new institution will have the support of various groups, qualified personnel in different disciplines, as well as the best and most advanced resources and technological equipment that facilitate the systematization, linking and analysis of data.

The center is part of the WHO Health Emergencies Program and will be a new grant from the countries of the world, allowing the momentum to “develop next-generation analytical tools and predictive models for risk analysis and link communities of practice throughout the world. world.”

Pandemics like #COVID19 highlight the need for a global response based on strengthened epidemic intelligence.

The 🆕 WHO Hub will generate:
✅ better data
✅ better analytics
✅ better decisions
across all aspects of managing public health emergencies.

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— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) September 1, 2021

Preventing emergencies

With this new center, the WHO aspires to support and promote the work of “public health experts to anticipate, detect and assess the risks of epidemic and pandemic” that allow timely prevention and action in the face of future health-related events.

WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom, explained: “The world needs to be able to detect new events with pandemic potential and monitor disease control measures in real time to create effective pandemic and epidemic risk management. This hub will be key to that effort.”

For his part, Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, pointed out: “Despite decades of investment, Covid-19 has revealed the great gaps that exist in the global capacity to anticipate, detect , assess and respond to outbreaks that threaten people around the world.”

M. Rodríguez

With information from international agencies