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Ref.No. [Initiator]
USA-382 [Headquarters]
Status
Discontinued
Title of the centre:
  WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Public Health Ethics

Director / Head: 
  Professor Ronald Beyer
  Professor Amy Fairchild
 
rb8@cumc.columbia.edu
alf4@cumc.columbia.edu




Institution:
  Mailman School of Public Health, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
  Columbia University
Address:
  722 West 168th Street
  10032
  NY
Town:
  New York City
Country:
  USA
Region:
  AMRO
Phone:
  212-305-1957
Fax:
  212-342-1986
Web Site:
  http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/centers/center-history-and-ethics-public-health
Date of Designation:
  02/Dec/2011
Last Redesignation:
  02/Dec/2015
Date of Discontinuation:
  06/Dec/2019
Terms of Reference:
  1. To support WHO in the development of guidelines on the ethics of public health surveillance  
  2. To develop for WHO&TDR training modules relevant to implementation research 
  3. To participate in the revision of current WHO TB guidelines within the context of a strategy of TB elimination  
  4. To support WHO in the development of guidance on ethical issues raised by emerging infections and outbreaks 
  5. Global Network of WHO CCs for Bioethics 
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Subjects:
  1. Ethics 
  2. HIV/AIDS 
  3. Tuberculosis 
Types of activity:
  1. Providing technical advice to WHO 
  2. Product development (guidelines; manual; methodologies; etc.) 
  3. Training and education 
WHO Outputs:
  4.4.4 - Policy options, tools and support provided to define and promote research priorities, and to address priority ethical issues related to public health and to research for health
  Ower: 2.3 - Global guidance and technical support provided on policies and programmes in order to promote equitable access to essential medicines, diagnostic tools and health technologies of assured quality for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and their rational use by prescribers and consumers, and, in order to ensure uninterrupted supplies of diagnostics, safe blood and blood products, injections and other essential health technologies and commodities.
 
Responsible Officer:
  REIS Andreas Alois
Phone:
  +41 22 791 3932
Email:
  reisa@who.int

Technical Counterpart:
  SAENZ BRESCIANI Carla
Phone:
  +1 43263
Email:
  saenzcar@paho.org
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
  Link to eWork
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