dPHE 6th Anniversary - One Health - A Multi-sectoral Approach to Controlling Vector-borne Diseases

This session was led by Dr Diana Rojas Alvarez, Department Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, Health Emergencies Programme, WHO.
Title: One Health: A multisectoral approach for preparedness, prevention and control of vector-borne diseases
Diana Rojas Alvarez is a Medical Doctor with a Master's in Tropical Infectious Diseases and a PhD in infectious diseases Epidemiology. With more than 15 years of experience on arboviral diseases epidemiology and public health, including surveillance, clinical management, preparedness, prevention, outbreak control activities in developing countries and control programs at regional and national level. She also has research experience on transmission dynamics and mathematical modelling of arboviruses, other emerging pathogens and modelling the impact of interventions such as vaccines, vector control among others. In June 2020, she joined WHO as the Technical Lead for chikungunya and Zika in the Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis unit at the Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention Department (WHE). Since then, she has been co-leading the development of the WHO Global Arbovirus Initiative and expanding collaborations with other relevant internal and external partners and strengthening the global networks with regional offices for the surveillance, monitoring, prevention, treatment, and control of emerging arboviral diseases.
About dPHE
Recent health emergencies have unnecessarily taken thousands of lives and cost the global economy billions. The UCL IRDR Centre for dPHE leads interdisciplinary research, training and policy to break down the limits of current health systems’ capacity and communities’ resilience to improve health and well-being; and respond to emergencies at local, national and international levels.
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