| No images? Click here  Friday 10.30.20 | Issue 85  NIAID-RNL/Flickr Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) updates Virtual press briefings with simultaneous translation in all UN languages with the participation of the WHO Director-General are planned for this week. Media advisories with Zoom links/dial-in details will be emailed in advance.  Call for entries: 2nd WHO Health for All Film Festival WHO invites independent film-makers, production companies, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films to the 2nd Health for All Film Festival. Submissions are now open until 30 January 2021, with three Grand Prix" categories: Universal health coverage (UHC) - Health emergencies - Better health and well-being. Three other special prizes are also planned: Student prize - Health educational film for the youth - Video specifically made for social medias.  Tuesday 3 November 2020 Closed ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council meeting The ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council was established in September to help realise the ACT-Accelerator vision: the rapid development, scale-up and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics, underpinned by relevant strengthening of health systems. The Council provides political guidance, advocates with external stakeholders and monitors resource flow and progress in delivery.  Friday 6 November 2020 Joint statement by WHO and the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities Look for a joint statement by WHO and the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities noting that in the midst of a pandemic, and in the lead-up to novel therapies and vaccines roll-out, global collaboration is of the utmost importance to keep patients and trial volunteers safe. Rigorous scientific standards of review and oversight must be maintained, while still giving patients access to safe and effective medical products at the earliest time possible. National COVID-19 Intra-Action Reviews The week’s second media briefing on COVID-19 (6 November, tbc) will include highlights from countries that conducted a national COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR). An IAR aims to promote real-time learning for course correction and improvement of national and sub-national COVID-19 preparedness and response. This includes sharing best practices and experiences by countries that conducted an IAR as advised during the 4th meeting of the International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005) Emergency Committee on the COVID-19 outbreak, convened on 31 July 2020.  Receive the latest COVID-19 content, guidance and must-know information from WHO. Sign up for a weekly digital update. Check out the WHO series, Science in 5.  WHO Media contacts:  You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list.  |
Friday, October 30, 2020
WHO | Week Ahead for media | 30 October 2020
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