WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: evidence for impact: advancing community centred responses to mpox

Objectives of the webinar

• To introduce WHO's interim guidance for social and behavioural research for mpox public health responses – outlining its purpose, development process, audience and relevance to improving the production and availability of high quality evidence for public health responses,
• To reflect on the ethical and practical challenges of producing scientific evidence on community dynamics during the mpox public health emergency of international concern, drawing on key outcomes from a multi-stakeholder meeting in Kinshasa,
• To present tools to support the implementation of the guidance, including a reporting tool and a protocol template, and to encourage participants to consider how they can use these resources in their own work.

Speakers

• Welcome Remarks: Dr Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist, WHO and Dr Nedret Emiroglu, Director, Health Emergencies Core Capabilities, WHO
• Remarks on the interim guidance for social and behavioural research for the mpox public health response: Dr Nina Gobat, Senior Technical Advisor, Evidence and analytics, CPR, WHO
• Panel discussion: Evidence for community-centred mpox public health response
• The importance of community engagement, working sensitively with vulnerable population and mitigating stigma – why these principles are core to the guidance and essential for not doing harm in practice: Mr Cesar Azuba Mombunza, the Congolese Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV or AIDS (CONERLA+)
• Day-to-day practical challenges in conducting social and behavioural research that this guidance helps to address: Ferdinand Nsengimana, Institut National de Santé Publique, Burundi, PI Africa CDC
• Why this work needs dedicated funding and support: Gilian MacKay, Senior Humanitarian Health Research Advisor

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