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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Expert roundtable hosted by Medicus Mundi International<br>
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 15.30-17.00 hrs CEST</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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How to better care for those who care for us in times <br>
of health emergencies? Time for new or stronger international <br>
legal norms for the protection of health and care workers?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">Register for this webinar:
</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7GcKv2A_RnSJvo6ZvzPxSA" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">Zoom registration</span></a></span><span style="color:#1f497d">
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More information on this session: <a href="https://www.medicusmundi.org/27october2022/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1f497d">MMI Website</span></a><br>
Series of policy dialogues 2022: <a href="https://www.medicusmundi.org/dialogues2022/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1f497d">MMI Website</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">After the adoption by the World Health Assembly, in May 2022, of a WHO “</span><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/carecompact" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">global
health and care workers compact</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d">” 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 (</span><a href="https://inb.who.int/home/informal-focused-consultations" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">INB</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d">)
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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="color:#1f497d">According to a
</span><a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb2/A_INB2_3-en.pdf#page=12" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">first working draft</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d"> 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”?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="color:#1f497d">Language of this session: English, no interpretation (sorry for this)<br>
This expert roundtable is part of the 2022 series of MMI policy dialogues<br>
Find all information here: </span><a href="https://www.medicusmundi.org/dialogues2022/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">How to cope with a world in crisis?</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">Expert roundtable with</span></b><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Baba Aye, Public Services International<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Eric Friedman, Georgetown University
</span><span> <span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Jim Campbell, World Health Organization<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Maren Hopfe, International Labour Organization<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Michelle Acorn, International Council of Nurses<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Soosmita Sinha, Health Law Institute<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Sopiko Japaridze, Solidarity Network Workers Center Georgia, People’s Health Movement<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1f497d;margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%">
<span lang="DE-CH">Moderator: Thomas Schwarz, MMI Network<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">Co-organizers of this session</span></b><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Health Law Institute<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">International Council of Nurses
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">People’s Health Movement</span><span style="color:#1f497d">
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Public Services International<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Solidarity Network Workers Center Georgia<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#1f497d"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Wemos<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span>Medicus Mundi Switzerland (as co-host of the series of MMI policy dialogues)</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p><b><span style="color:#1f497d">How to cope with a world in crisis?<br>
Series of MMI policy dialogues 2022<br>
26-31 October 2022, as Zoom webinars<br>
<br>
</span></b><span style="color:#1f497d">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</span>
<span style="color:#1f497d">is related to the <a href="https://www.medicusmundi.ch/en/exchange-and-networking/events/mms-symposium/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Symposium</span></a> “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”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="https://www.medicusmundi.org/dialogues2022/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">https://www.medicusmundi.org/dialogues2022/</span></a></span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Medicus Mundi International
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Network Health for All<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Murbacherstrasse 34, CH-4056 Basel<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Phone +41 (61) 383 18 11<br>
</span><span><a href="mailto:schwarz@medicusmundi.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">schwarz@medicusmundi.org</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://www.medicusmundi.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">www.medicusmundi.org</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">MMI Geneva office
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Route de Ferney 150, CP 2100<br>
1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland<br>
Phone +41 (22) 920 08 06<br>
</span><span><a href="mailto:geneva@medicusmundi.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">geneva@medicusmundi.org</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">MMI (co)hosts Secretariats of:<br>
</span><span><a href="https://g2h2.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">Geneva Global Health Hub</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d"><br>
</span><a href="https://www.healthworkersforallcoalition.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">Health Workers for All Coalition</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d"><br>
</span><a href="https://www.medicusmundi.org/kampalainitiative/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">Kampala Initiative</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1f497d">Sharing knowhow and joining
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forces towards Health for All</span></i><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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