RMG Retreat in Geneva
Excellencies, Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to remind you that the Polio Partners Group (PPG) will convene for our annual technical workshop and semi-annual high-level meeting on Friday, 6 December, Salle B at the Headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva. The technical workshop is scheduled to begin at 09.00 and the high-level meeting will begin at 12.30. Webex connection will be available for those participating remotely.
We are proposing agendas that will cover the following topics. Draft agendas will be circulated shortly. As always, we welcome and appreciate your feedback.
Technical Workshop
- Current burden of disease caused by the occurrence of cVDPV
- Risk to overall success of GPEI program posed by cVDPV outbreaks
- GPEI key partners’ approach to address cVDPV risk
- Challenges to stopping transmission of cVDPV outbreaks
- Actions required to eliminate the risk of cVDPV outbreaks
High-level Meeting
- High-level remarks and stakeholder input
- Status of wild poliovirus detection and interruption
- Biologic and public health basis of cVDPV outbreaks
- Resource mobilization
If you are planning to attend in person or remotely, kindly send your RSVP to mmoss@unfoundation.org. Please note that registration through the INDICO system is mandatory for all participants who do not hold a UN badge. We will provide a link to register in INDICO in a future email.
We look forward to your participation on the 6th of December.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Jon Kim Andrus
Director, Division of Vaccines and Immunization
Center for Global Health, University of Colorado
H.E. Mr. Ken Okaniwa
Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva
Co-Chairs, Polio Partners Group
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
