PHM-Exch> Fwd: MMI expert roundtable related to INB, 27 OCT: New international legal norms needed for the protection of health and care workers?

Wed Oct 26 01:18:12 PDT 2022

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Expert roundtable hosted by Medicus Mundi International
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 15.30-17.00 hrs CEST

* How to better care for those who care for us in times of health
emergencies? Time for new or stronger international legal norms for the
protection of health and care workers?*

Register for this webinar: Zoom registration
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7GcKv2A_RnSJvo6ZvzPxSA>
More information on this session: MMI Website
<https://www.medicusmundi.org/27october2022/>
Series of policy dialogues 2022: MMI Website
<https://www.medicusmundi.org/dialogues2022/>

After the adoption by the World Health Assembly, in May 2022, of a WHO “global
health and care workers compact
<https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/carecompact>” as a “technical
document to be considered by member states”, the negotiation of a “WHO
convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic
prevention, preparedness and response” by a WHO Intergovernmental
negotiating body (INB
<https://inb.who.int/home/informal-focused-consultations>) would provide an
opportunity for defining new international legal norms or strengthening
existing ones on how to protect health and care workers in health
emergencies and pandemics, in a chronic and global situation of scarcity of
skilled people who care for us and risk their lives for doing so.

According to a first working draft
<https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb2/A_INB2_3-en.pdf#page=12> of the
“pandemic treaty” published in July 2022, the “health workforce” is one of
the specific fields to be addressed by the proposed new legal instrument.
However, the need to protect health and care workers, provide them with
decent working conditions and better enable them to defend their rights is
not addressed of the draft. What can/shall be demanded from member states
in this regard beyond their general commitment to “invest in an adequate,
skilled, trained, competent and committed workforce”? What existing norms
(ILO and other) need to be explicitly referenced in the new WHO instrument,
and may-be strengthened? How will the International Labour Organization
(ILO), international unions and health and care workers organized in other
ways at a national or international level be heard in the negotiation of
the “pandemic treaty”?

With this expert roundtable and with the documentation, recording and
dissemination of the outcomes of this session, the organizers intend to
provide timely input to the INB process and further sensitize WHO member
states for not seeing the “health workforce” from a macroeconomic and
health systems (“investment”) or health security perspective only but as
people who have rights to be strengthened and defended. Key messages will
be reported to the INB by Medicus Mundi International. MMI is listed by the
INB as “relevant stakeholder” and will attend the third INB meeting in
early December.

Language of this session: English, no interpretation (sorry for this)
This expert roundtable is part of the 2022 series of MMI policy dialogues
Find all information here: How to cope with a world in crisis?
<https://www.medicusmundi.org/dialogues2022/>

*Expert roundtable with*

·        Baba Aye, Public Services International

·        Eric Friedman, Georgetown University

·        Jim Campbell, World Health Organization

·        Maren Hopfe, International Labour Organization

·        Michelle Acorn, International Council of Nurses

·        Soosmita Sinha, Health Law Institute

·        Sopiko Japaridze, Solidarity Network Workers Center Georgia,
People’s Health Movement

   - Moderator: Thomas Schwarz, MMI Network

*Co-organizers of this session*

·        Health Law Institute

·        International Council of Nurses

·        People’s Health Movement

·        Public Services International

·        Solidarity Network Workers Center Georgia

·        Wemos

   - Medicus Mundi Switzerland (as co-host of the series of MMI policy
   dialogues)

*How to cope with a world in crisis? Series of MMI policy dialogues 2022
26-31 October 2022, as Zoom webinars *Climate change, pandemic and war:
these are huge and partly new challenges for organizations working in the
field of international health cooperation. The 2022 series of MMI policy
dialogues is related to the Symposium
<https://www.medicusmundi.ch/en/exchange-and-networking/events/mms-symposium/>
“The world in crisis – climate change, pandemic, and war” hosted by Medicus
Mundi Switzerland in Basel, on 2 November. As international network, we use
the opportunity to extend the conversation and invite a broader audience to
have a deeper look at how (exactly) to cope with the “world in crisis”.

https://www.medicusmundi.org/dialogues2022/

Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary

Medicus Mundi International

Network Health for All

Murbacherstrasse 34, CH-4056 Basel

Phone +41 (61) 383 18 11
schwarz at medicusmundi.org

www.medicusmundi.org

MMI Geneva office
Route de Ferney 150, CP 2100
1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Phone +41 (22) 920 08 06
geneva at medicusmundi.org

MMI (co)hosts Secretariats of:
Geneva Global Health Hub <https://g2h2.org/>
Health Workers for All Coalition
<https://www.healthworkersforallcoalition.org/>
Kampala Initiative <https://www.medicusmundi.org/kampalainitiative/>

*Sharing knowhow and joining forces towards Health for All*

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