Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240101098
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The WHO Technical Science for Health Network (WHO-Techne) is a global community of accredited architectural and engineering universities, institutions and associations established by WHO to strengthen emergency preparedness and response operations. To this end, WHO-Techne develops and designs innovative health facility solutions and provides Member States and health partners rapid and customized technical support to realise agreed objectives. WHO-Techne was established in early 2020 to support countries in the building of new Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) treatment centres and/or redesign of existing facilities to improve services for COVID-19 and provide safer environments for health care workers, patients, and communities. Since its founding, WHOTechne has grown to become a crucial logistics tool in WHO’s health emergency preparedness and response activities. This report describes WHO-Techne, how its members work, what they do and how they want to further develop. It presents examples of WHO-Techne’s country technical and operational support, contribution to normative guidance development through the provision of technical expertise, capacity-building and research/innovation activities.