RE: Ebola Virus Disease: WHO looking for Health and Safety Coordinators in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
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>Maybe know someone who will be interested
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> From: "IVANOV, Ivan Dimov"
> Date:09/16/2014 10:56 AM (GMT-06:00)
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> Cc: workershealth ,"DOLAN, Irene" ,"BAGAYOKO, Magaran Monzon" ,"KORTUM, Evelyn G." ,"Rodriguez Guzman, Julietta" ,"Aliya Kosbayeva (kosba...@ecehbonn.euro.who.int)" ,"ONYON, Lesley Jayne" ,"ARNAOUT, Said" ,"HASSAN, Mohd Nasir" ,Shengli Niu ,"Wiskow, Christiane (wis...@ilo.org)" ,Francisco Santos-O'Connor ,Yuka Ujita ,"Lee-Nah Hsu (hs...@ilo.org)" ,"VALLENAS BEJAR DE VILLAR, Rosa Constanza" ,"SAIKAT, Sohel" ,"NEIRA, Maria Purificacion" ,"DORA, Carlos Francisco C."
> Subject: Ebola Virus Disease: WHO looking for Health and Safety Coordinators in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
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> Dear colleague,
> WHO is urgently looking to recruit national health and safety coordinators in the countries affected by Ebola Virus Disease - Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Attached are the terms of reference which include a combination of occupational health and safety and infection control responsibilities. The working language is English for Sierra Leone and Liberia and French for Guinea. Professional background in occupational health or infection control is needed, as well as experience in occupational health and safety in the healthcare settings.
> The duration of deployment is at least 4 weeks however in the interest of continuity in service, it would be most preferable if we can have the person for up to 3 months? This will allow the person to develop/embed the system and undertake some degree of audit.
> Interested persons are invited to submit application through the following link https://extranet.who.int/datacol/survey.asp?survey_id=3073 and send an email to vall...@who.int, sai...@who.int and worker...@who.int to ensure tracing and timely processing.
> Please, share as soon as possible with your networks.
> Thanks for your continuous support for fighting the EVD outbreak in West Africa. For WHO information about Ebola Virus Disease and its prevention and control pls visit http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/
> Best regards from Geneva
> Ivan D. Ivanov, MD, PhD
> Team Leader, Workers’ Health
> Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
> Tel. direct: +41 22 791 5532
> E-mail: iva...@who.int
> Website: http://www.who.int/occupational_health/en/
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> World Health Organization
> 20, avenue Appia
> CH-1211 Geneva 27
> tel: +41 22 791 2111
> fax: +41 22 791 3111
> visit WHO at: www.who.int
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> From: IVANOV, Ivan Dimov
> Sent: 27 August 2014 18:07
> Cc: workershealth; DOLAN, Irene; BAGAYOKO, Magaran Monzon; KORTUM, Evelyn G.; Rodriguez-Guzman, Dra. Julietta (WDC); Aliya Kosbayeva (kosba...@ecehbonn.euro.who.int); ONYON, Lesley Jayne; ARNAOUT, Said; HASSAN, Mohd Nasir
> Subject: Ebola Virus Disease: Occupational Safety and Health
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> To the members of the global network of WHO collaborating centres for occupational health
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> Dear Colleagues,
> As you are well aware the ongoing outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa has been declared by WHO a public health emergency of international concern. Transmission of the disease through occupational exposure is of particular concern. See WHO media release at http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/25-august-2014/en/ . The number of infections and fatalities among informal health workforce and non-health workers is unknown.
> To respond to these concerns together with the ILO we developed a joint briefing note for employers and workers available at http://www.who.int/occupational_health/publications/ebola_osh/en/ It will be updated when new recommendations become available. We are also working with the ILO and our Ebola response team to develop a more specific synthesis of the technical recommendations for preventing and stopping transmission of the disease at the workplace.
> I would appreciate if you could let me know if your institution has specific expertise that might be useful for WHO’s activities in occupational health and safety aspects of the EVD outbreak, in particular in the following areas:
> Safe handling biohazards, biosafety, personal protective equipment for biosafety, training in its use, effectiveness,
> Occupational health and safety in the emergency response to biohazards and epidemics – strategies, organization, management,
> Psycho-social stress in emergency response, prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder and other consequences
> Should you have such expertise, please let me know the names and contact details of the experts and their specific field of expertise. I will contact them if needed to review and comment documentation and provide advice.
> WHO is also calling for expression of interests in supporting the epidemic response in the affected countries in West Africa. This will include management of occupational health and safety and infection control in the affected countries. The call is at the WHO extranet site
> https://extranet.who.int/datacol/survey.asp?survey_id=3073 You may need to register with WHO extranet to use it.
> Please, keep me informed about your activities and questions you may receive about the occupational health aspects of the Ebola outbreak.
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> With many best regards from Geneva
> Ivan
> Ivan D. Ivanov, MD, PhD
> Team Leader, Workers’ Health
> Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
> Tel. direct: +41 22 791 5532
> E-mail: iva...@who.int
> Website: http://www.who.int/occupational_health/en/
>
> World Health Organization
> 20, avenue Appia
> CH-1211 Geneva 27
> tel: +41 22 791 2111
> fax: +41 22 791 3111
> visit WHO at: www.who.int
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