About the event: The Side Event will provide perspectives from FAO and members on FAO’s Role in the Global Health Security Agenda

Purposes: The side event will provide a forum for discussion of how FAO’s work under the Organization’s mandate to eradicate hunger and malnutrition and to promote sustainable agricultural and rural development contribute to the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). Food safety and animal health cut across these issues and the event will highlight some particular examples of FAO’s policy work and tools for strengthening animal and aquaculture health, food safety and emergency prevention and response relevant to the GHSA. Preventing outbreaks, detecting threats at an early stage and responding rapidly and effectively when needed have proven to decrease global health threats and improve lives and livelihoods.

Refreshments will be available outside the Iran Room from 12:30 onwards.

Responsible office: 

AGAH

Languages:

English, French, Spanish

Agenda

Presentations

The importance of the Global Health Security Agenda initiative
Natalie E. Brown
Deputy Permanent Representative
U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome

Background to Global Health Security Agenda: Global health challenges and solutions (Part I)
Juan Lubroth
FAO Chief Veterinary Officer
Animal Health Service

Detect: Providing tools for global disease surveillance and early warning
Gwenaelle Dauphin
EMPRES – Laboratory Unit

Respond: Responding to global health security threats
Edgardo Arza
Crisis Management Centre – Animal Health

Prevent: Preventing crises and making a difference
Jean-Michel Poirson
Food Safety and Codex Unit

Background to Global Health Security Agenda: Global health challenges and solutions (Part 2)
Juan Lubroth
FAO Chief Veterinary Officer
Animal Health Service

Additional Information:

Animal production and Health:
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/en/index.htm

Animal Health section:
http://www.fao.org/animal-health/en/

Twitter hashtag:

#CL148, #agGHSA, #Health_Security