29 August 2022, Monrovia: Constructing on the features of the earlier conferences, the theme for this 12 months, “Sustaining Public Well being throughout a pandemic,” drew the eye of assorted stakeholders. The convention comes at a vital level the place Africa and the remainder of the world proceed to face international challenges, together with well being pandemics and epidemics, local weather change, growing populations and financial challenges, and the function of science and analysis in combating and minimizing the implications of those international issues can’t be overemphasized.
The three-day convention from 29-31 August 2022 geared toward selling top-level analysis and introduced collectively a multi-disciplinary group of specialists to current, and alternate breakthrough concepts referring to public well being. It created an excellent platform to share experiences, foster collaborations throughout establishments (together with academia), and deliberate on rising analysis, in addition to discover solutions to important questions that might reduce these occurrences and the challenges accompanying them.
Serving as one of many keynote audio system and representing Dr. Mashidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Peter Clement, WHO Nation Consultant in Liberia, mentioned the scientific convention comes at a time and builds on ongoing reflections on easy methods to enhance the supply of well being providers throughout COVID-19 pandemic.
“The pandemic has challenged native, nationwide, regional, and international capacities to arrange and reply. International locations have deployed mandatory methods to regulate the viral transmission. However, the success of those management methods relies upon largely on how an present well being system is organized, ruled, financed, and coordinated.” mentioned Dr. Peter Clement.
Closing up on his deal with, Dr. Clement reminded the viewers that Liberia has dedicated to attaining the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs), nevertheless the progress is sluggish to achieve the targets by 2030. “Acceleration is required, and this may be achieved by extra integration (multi-stakeholder approaches, main well being care, well being emergencies preparedness ,and response structure), alongside rigorous service supply, strong joint funding, monitoring, analysis, and governance- underpinned by the precept of fairness. “narrated Dr. Clement.
Reflecting on his expertise in Liberia through the Ebola Virus Illness outbreak, Dr. Thomas Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, who was additionally one of many keynote audio system, mentioned “When communities, the personal sector, and the federal government come collectively, they’ll finish essentially the most devastating well being threats”.
For his half, Dr. Francis Kateh, Chief Medical Officer, Liberia, thanked the NPHIL crew for conserving the lights of Dr. Emmet E. Dennis on. “Immediately, we’re about to debate what’s vital to life- that’s science.” exclaimed Dr. Kateh to the viewers.
He additional talked about that as a result of public well being is essential, the choices and insurance policies made by specialists have long run results, due to this fact its integral to make use of the info generated to tell choices.
The Emmet Dennis Nationwide Scientific Convention was established by the Nationwide Public Well being Institute of Liberia within the quest to supply a platform to share scientific information. This initiative was embraced by all stakeholders supporting well being in Liberia. The convention was named in honor of Dr. Emmet Dennis, who served as the primary Director of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Analysis, which he based.
General, 90 abstracts have been chosen from 3 nations: Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria, after being reviewed by a panel of specialists/ scientists. All oral and plenary classes have been geared toward encouraging the residents and graduates to advance of their scientific analysis exploits and public well being follow. The convention ended with an award ceremony and recognition of excellent shows.