Events - WHO Ethiopia

August 2015

Workshop and hands-on training on water treatment technology options efficacy performance evaluation to build capacity on advanced water quality testing 
Dates: 10-24 August 2015
Venue: Addis Ababa
Contact: Waltaji Terfa; email kutanew [at] who.int

Training workshop on SSFFC medical products for 15 Anglophone African countries
Dates: 11-13 August 2015
Venue: Addis Ababa
Contact: Abraham Gebregiorgis; email: gebregiorgisa [at] who.int

Global H4+ team visits Ethiopia for review meetings on the H4+/SIDA collaboration with Global H4+ team and H4+ country team, FMoH, SIDA, and other partners 
Dates: 17-21 August 2015
Contact: Dr Azmach Gebregiorgis; email: gebregiorgisaz [at] who.int

Training on Guinea Work Eradication Program SOPs and visceral leishmaniasis case management to ARRA, NGOs and Gambella Hospital health workers supporting refugee camps
Dates: 24-26 August 2015
Venue: Gambella
Contact: Dr Abate Mulugeta; email: mulugetam [at] who.int

July 2015

13-16 July 2015: International Conference on Financing for Development, the UN Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

17-20 July 2015: Human Resources for Health Forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (to be confirmed).

 

June 2015 

18-19 June 2015:  FAO/WHO-PACA Regional Workshop - myotoxins in sorghum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

15-26 June 2015: Post Rota Vaccine Evaluation, Ethiopia.

 

 May 2015 

4-10 May 2015: UN Global Road Safety Week

Contact: Mr Wassihun Melaku Belay; Email:  belayw [at] who.int

11-13 May 2015: Surveillance and EPI review and peer exchange meeting, Hawassa  

Contact: Dr Gebre Asmamaw; Email: asmamawlakewg [at] who.int

18-26 May 2015: World Health Assembly, Geneva

Contact: Mrs Adugna Tadesse; Email:  adugna [at] who.int

 

March 2015

5-6 March 2015: Training on Ebola Virus Disease for UN agency staff in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

6 March 2015: Review meeting of H4+/SIDA collaboration on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Sarah De Masi; Email:  demasis [at] who.int

9-11 March 2015: Consultative bi-regional meeting on visceral Leishmaniasis control strategies & epidemiological situation in Eastern Africa, Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Abate Mulugeta; Email:abatem [at] who.int

9-12 March 2015: WHO/CDC Regional Grant Management Meeting in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Kathleen Gallagher; Email:  gallagherk [at] who.int

9-12 March 2015: UNITAID in country stakeholders consultative meeting on HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Esther Aceng; Email:  acenge [at] who.int

11-17 March 2015: Polio supplementary immunization activity in high risk areas of Ethiopia
Contact: Dr Kathleen Gallagher; Email:  gallagherk [at] who.int

15 March 2015: Women First 5km Run (supported by UN Delivering as One in Ethiopia), Addis Ababa
Contact: Viivi Erkkila; Email:  erkkilav [at] who.int

16-20 March 2015: Engage-TB project implementation review in Ethiopia: Oromia, Afar and Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Kassa Hailu; Email:  ketemak [at] who.int

19-20 March 2015: "Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of WHO Guidelines: a GREAT Network Research Activity" workshop, Bishoftu
Contact: Dr Luwam Teshome; Email: teshomel [at] who.int

21-24 March 2015: TB Research Annual Conference (TRAC) and World TB Day Commemoration, Adama
Contact: Dr Esther Aceng; Email:  acenge [at] who.int

23 March 2015: World Water Day and celebration for Ethiopia’s achievement of the water targets of MDG 7 and 10, Addis Ababa
Contact: Waltaji Terfa Kutane; Email:  kutanew [at] who.int

 

February 2015

6-9 February 2015 - Second round of polio national immunization days (NIDs), all regions of Ethiopia
Contact: Dr Kathleen Gallagher, Expanded Programme on Immunization; Email: gallagherk [at] who.int

8-9 February 2015 - Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) annual conference, Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Luwam Teshome, Maternal Health, Family Planning and Peproductive Health; Email: teshomel [at] who.int ( )

11 February 2015 - World Cancer Day commemoration and launch of the national noncommunicable diseases strategy, Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Israel Gebresillassie, Disease Prevention and Control; tgebresillassiei [at] who.in ( )

19 February 2015 - Simultaneous launch of the third WHO report on neglected tropical diseases, Addis Ababa/ London
Contact: Ms Viivi Erkkila, Communication, Partnership and Resource Mobilization; Email: erkkilav [at] who.int

 

January 2015

26-30 January 2015: Measles National and Sub-national Laboratory Technical Capacity Building Training, Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Aysheshem Ademe Tegegne,  aysheshema [at] who.int

26-27 January 2015: Tobacco Taxation and Tobacco Cessation Training, Addis Ababa
Contact: Mr Wassihun Melaku Belay, Health Promotion Officer, belayw [at] who.int

26 January – 3 February 2015: Annual Regional Green Light Committee Monitoring Mission to the Ethiopian Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Addis Ababa
Contact: Dr Kassa Hailu, Tuberculosis Programme Officer,  ketemak [at] who.int

 

December 2014

1-5 December 2014 - World AIDS Day Exhibition at the UNECA Library, Addis Ababa, showcasing viral diseases and the UN's work to combat them
Contact: Loza Mesfin Tesfaye, Communications Officer,  tesfayel [at] who.int

2-8 December 2014 - Ethiopia Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness Assessment
Contact: Dr Kebba O'Jaiteh, Outbreak, Crisis and Response Coordinator, jaitehk [at] who.int

3-4 December 2014 - Annual Review Meeting of the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, Jimma
Contact: Dr Zeyede Kebede Zeleke, Guinea Worm Eradication Programme Officer,  zelekez [at] who.int

8-12 December 2014 - The 20th Session of the Joint Action Forum (JAF) for Onchocerciasis Control, Addis Ababa 
Contact: Dr Abate Mulugeta, Neglected Tropical Diseases Coordinator,  abatem [at] who.int

  • 8-9 December - 20th Session of JAF
  • 10-11 December - 8th Meeting of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF)
  • 12 December - Meeting on soil-transmitted helminth and schistosomiasis

15-19 December 2014 - WHO Country Office for Ethiopia end-of-year review meeting
Contact: Dr Sofonias Getachew, Country and Region Analysis and Support (CRAS) Coordinator,  asrats [at] who.int