Webinar: How is Africa Managing the Covid 19 pandemic? An APPG briefing with the WHO special envoys for COVID-19


When:

29/5/2020

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Location:

Webinar via Zoom

Admission:

Live stream

Image: Health workers in the DRC put on gloves on before checking patients at the hospital. Credit: World Bank/Vincent Tremeau.

 

 

This meeting has been arranged by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Africa with the WHO. Parliamentarians will be briefed by four WHO special envoys for Coronavirus on the developing pandemic and country responses across Africa.

 

Speakers:

Dr. David Nabarro – Professor of Global Health Imperial College London and WHO special envoy for COVID-19

Dr. John Nkengasong – Director of Africa CDC, WHO special envoy for COVID-19

Dr. Maha El Rabbat – Former Minister of Health and Population of Egypt and WHO Special Envoy for COVID-19

Professor Samba Sow – Former Minister of Health of Mali, Director-General of the Centre for Vaccine Development in Mali and WHO Special Envoy for COVID-19

 

Chair: Baroness Lindsay Northover, Vice-Chair of the APPG for Africa

How is Africa Managing the Covid 19 pandemic? An APPG Africa briefing with the WHO special envoys for COVID-19

How is Africa Managing the Covid 19 pandemic? An APPG Africa briefing with the WHO special envoys for COVID-19

Posted by Royal African Society on Friday, 29 May 2020

 

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