IASC Weekly Meeting on Health Care in Emergencies
Geneva
Agenda: I: Briefing on WHO's World Health Day (9 April 2009): Health Facilities in Emergencies Mr Jonathan Abrahams, Coordinator, Risk Reduction and Emergency Preparedness at WHO will brief on preparations for World Health Day on 7 April 2009 which focuses on the theme of health facilities in emergencies. Mr Abrahams will discuss actions being taken by WHO and international partners to make health facilities safer in terms of design and construction, protection of equipment and infrastructure, and preparedness of health workers to respond to emergencies. II: Update on ICRC's Health Care in Danger Project Dr Robin Coupland, a medical adviser in the ICRC's Assistance Division, will present the ICRC's project "Health Care in Danger" and elements of international humanitarian law which protect health care in armed conflict. The project includes a system of monitoring violent events affecting health care in armed conflict and other situations of violence. Some data from the first seven months of this monitoring process will be presented. For background information on ICRC's presentation, please see: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/3/06-037135.pdf III: AOB