Upcoming activities
Register Today
for Webinar
Series on Patient
Advocacy
Join us on 16 February for the first
webinar in our Tools for Change
webinar series. Tools For Change is
a three-part webinar series aimed
at educating and up skilling patient
advocates on various aspects of
advocacy and the tools needed to
effectively lobby for change.
The below panellists will convene
to discuss the Global Health Sector
Strategy for Viral Hepatitis and how
organisations can use global policy
commitments as a lever for national
change.
Hepatitis Testing Innovation
Contest
The webinar will be held on 16
February at 10.00 am GMT and 7.00
pm GMT respectively. To register and
for more information, click here.
Two subsequent webinars will be
held in March and April which will
look at the use of surveys as tools for
effective lobbying and campaigning
and the influence of media coverage
on policymakers.
Do you have a new and
exciting idea on how to
deliver hepatitis B and
C testing? Be in with a
chance to contribute to
the 2016 WHO Hepatitis
Testing Guidelines by
sharing your ideas by
March 1, 2016.
The SESH (Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health) team in collaboration
with the WHO Global Hepatitis Program is organising an innovation contest
on hepatitis B and C testing to identify innovative examples of delivering
testing.
For more information and how to apply, click here.
Understanding the Global Healthcare Sector Strategy for Viral Hepatitis:
Driving national policy change
• Jeff Lazarus, Editor-in-Chief of Hepatology, Medicine and Policy &
Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Dr. Stefan Wiktor, Team Lead, Global Hepatitis Program, World Health
Organization
• John Ward, Director, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Center for Disease
Control and Prevention, USA (evening session only)
• Bisi Bright, 1st Vice Chairman / CEO, LiveWell Initiative LWI, Nigeria
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