Webinar: Coordinating Multi-sectoral, Multi-level Pandemic Responses

Join us on April 27, 2021 to learn about some of the ways countries are coordinating their national COVID-19 responses.
Join us on April 27, 2021 to learn about some of the ways countries are coordinating their national COVID-19 responses.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be devastating for health systems globally. To slow the spread of the virus and to reduce its toll, country leaders must manage strong systems-focused, multi-sectoral coordination, planning, and monitoring. Countries are asking how to create and manage the cross-sectoral teams needed to mount a coordinated response to the pandemic, including developing pandemic/epidemic preparedness and response strategies and strengthening coordination across sectors and across different levels of government to ensure a prompt and effective response. Join the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) and the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator (Accelerator) on September 30, 2020 for a webinar to learn about some of the ways countries are coordinating their national COVID-19 responses, including the Accelerator’s support to Ghana; share insights on the priority challenges and key questions countries face; and learn about an upcoming virtual collaborative. Date: September 30, 2020 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM UTC Click here to register. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link two days prior to the event. Panelists Professor Samba Sow is the World Health Organization’s Director General’s Special Envoy for COVID-19 for Africa and will also be serving as a technical facilitator for the COVID Learning Collaborative convened jointly between R4D and the JLN with funding from BMGF. Prof. Samba is currently working at the Centre for Vaccine Development (CVD) in Mali. CVD is one of three sites in Mali with capacity for COVID-19 testing, and is Mali’s leading center for epidemiolocal surveillance, laboratory sciences, field surveys and clinical trials. Mr. Joseph Addo-Yobo is the Executive Director of Total Family Health Organisation (TFHO), an indigenous non-governmental organization in Ghana. Prior to joining TFHO he led and managed several USAID projects across Africa forging innovative with governments, non-governmental organizations and private companies for the sustainable delivery of health services and products. When Ghana reported its’ first case of COVID-19, Joseph volunteered as the Program Manager at the Office of the Presidential Coordinator for the Country’s COVID-19 response. Professor Jongsu Ryu is a Professor at the Graduate School of Public Health at Yonsei University, Seoul teaching at the Global Health Security/ Health Policy & Financing Master’s degree program targeting mid-career public health professionals. Professor Raquel Duarte is a pulmonologist and a Professor in the Medical School and Institute of Public Health of Porto University, and head of the Infectious Diseases Research Group at Institute of Public Health, Porto, Portugal. She was an advisor to the regional COVID-19 response in Portugal’s North region, organizing a multi-disciplinary team of mathematicians, public health professionals and communication experts to develop and resource response strategies, develop and execute communication plans on television and social media, and organize multi-sectoral stakeholders and responses for transport, hospitality and nursing homes industries. Following the webinar, the Accelerator, led by Results for Development, in partnership with the JLN will launch a 6-month virtual collaborative focused on multi-sectoral, multi-level coordination of pandemic responses that will facilitate cross-country exchange on what has worked, and not worked, and generate practical guidance.
On May 1, 2020, the Steering Group of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) approved the launch of a new COVID-19 Network for Open Dialogue and Exchange (NODE) to support countries in accessing, sharing, and discussing COVID-19-related knowledge. This new initiative will expand the network’s ability to respond quickly to countries’ needs for practical knowledge about pandemic response and maintaining essential health services during pandemics. Introducing the COVID-19 NODE Meeting evolving needs in COVID-19. For more than 10 years, the JLN’s country-driven and country-led joint learning approach has connected hundreds of practitioners and policymakers to co-create practical solutions to the shared health system challenges they face when moving to universal health coverage. Building on these values, JLN member countries have identified urgent challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 NODE will bring countries together to respond to these challenges, with opportunities for learning and exchange. And as country priorities shift, so will the NODE’s topics, events, and resources to provide more opportunities for joint learning and more close-to-real-time and rapid knowledge sharing and joint problem-solving using effective virtual engagement tools and approaches. Broader participation. The coronavirus recognizes no borders and is impacting every country around the globe. The NODE is therefore meant to be inclusive and so non-JLN member participants will be welcome to connect, share and learn. New partnerships. The JLN has traditionally enjoyed a broad network of partners and the NODE will continue to draw on support of and collaboration with the Global Financing Facility, USAID, the World Bank, and others. We intend to expand these partnerships given the need of countries and partners to make good policy and implementation decisions during this pandemic. Please visit the website for details of evolving partnerships and the learning opportunities they will provide members. The Technical Agenda The JLN technical agenda is adapting to respond to urgent changes in countries’ priorities to address the COVID-19 response, while also maintaining our foundational focus on universal health coverage (UHC), including through work on how to maintain primary health care services through the pandemic period. Using feedback from country members, some JLN teams are shifting their focus entirely from topics countries have deprioritized to emerging technical topics, some teams are continuing their work with slight modifications to incorporate COVID-19 related themes, and new teams are being formed to take up COVID-related topics that have not previously been on the agenda. While this remains a work in progress, examples of existing JLN learning activities adapting in response to COVID-19 include: Pilot of an Empanelment Assessment Tool – shifting to more immediate COVID-19 related themes Population Targeting – continuing with adaptation Domestic Resource Mobilization – continuing with adaptation Systematic Prioritization and Efficiency – continuing with adaptation Primary Health Care Financing and Payment – continuing with adaptation Private Sector Engagement – continuing with adaptation Primary Health Care Initiative – new topics coming soon Medicines and Pricing – new topics coming soon Managing NCDs through Innovative Primary Care – new topics coming soon Multi-sector, Multi-level Coordination for Pandemic Response – new topic coming soon We expect in addition to be adding new topics on human resources for health, supply chain management, strategic communications, infection prevention and control, telehealth, and others, all as prioritized by the Steering Group and Country Core Groups. Going Digital to Meet Current Challenges and Work More Efficiently With travel restricted, but the need to connect, share, and learn across countries greater than ever, the JLN is adapting to new ways of working together. The NODE will curate practical knowledge from country experiences and make available other new online resources. Moreover, technical teams will be modifying facilitation approaches to take advantage of best-in-class virtual engagement techniques and tools to support practitioner-to-practitioner learning. Get Involved As the JLN launches the COVID-19 NODE, there are many ways to get involved, learn more, and stay up-to-date: Save the date June 4, 2020 (pre-register, below) for a discussion about how countries can solve health system challenges through joint learning and to learn more about the COVID-19 NODE. Create an account on the JLN website to access discussion forums and the latest network announcements. Contact the JLN Network Manager about how to partner, support, and engage with the COVID-19 NODE. Pre-register to Get to Know the NODE | June 4, 2020 Loading…