World Health Day 2011. Launch of the WHO policy package to combat drug resistance. Press conference under embargo until 00h01, 7 April 2011 (local time) Dr Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director-General, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General, Health Security and the Environment, WHO Dr Mario Raviglione, Director, Stop TB Department, WHO (Moderator) Ms Christy Feig, Director of Communications, WHO
Background press briefing on the First Meeting of the Consultative Expert Working Group on R&D Financing and Coordination (5-7 April 2011 at WHO Headquarters). The objective of the meeting is to further consider the proposals and additional ones for financing and coordination of research and development for diseases that disproportionally affect developing countries. Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director General, Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research, WHO Dr. Zafar Mirza, Coordinator Department of Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, WHO
Press conference WHO/Stop TB Partnership / The Global Fund / IFRC
Update on the status worldwide of multidrug-resistant TB and new initiatives to reach people with TB through community outreach. Dr. Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director-General, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and Neglected and Tropical Diseases, WHO Mme Goli Ameri, Under Secretary General, Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Dr. Mario Raviglione, Director, WHO Stop TB Department Professor Rifat Atun, Director of Strategy, Performance & Evaluation, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership
Presentation of the “State of Europe’s Forests 2011”, quantitative indicators on sustainable forest management compiled every four years Mr. Simon Gillam, Head of Economics & Statistics, UK’s Forestry Commission Dr. Jesus San-Miguel Ayanz, Leader of the FOREST Team at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (Ispra Italy) Mr. Claude Vidal, Director of the National Forest Inventory (NFI), France Ms. Mette Loyche Wilkie, Team Leader, Global Forest Assessment and Reporting, FAO Forestry Department Dr. Roman Michalak, Forestry Officer, Forest Resources Assessment, UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section
Joint UNHCR-IOM Press Conference on situation at Tunisian and Egyptian borders Mohammed Abdiker, Director of the Department of Operations and Emergencies, IOM Andrew Harper, Coordinator of Operations for Libya Emergency, UNHCR Jean-Philippe Chauzy, IOM Spokesperson Melissa Fleming, UNHCR Spokesperson
