The 5th Core Group meeting

Overview

Twenty-five World Health Organization (WHO) and Health EDRM experts participated in the meeting. They identified a strong need for strengthened partnerships and collaboration at the national, regional and global levels to promote research for developing and implementing evidence-based policies and programmes to manage health risks and impacts of health emergencies and disasters.

At the end of the meeting, participants agreed on four key actions for the Health EDRM RN for 2024–2025:

• Conduct periodic strategic discussions to update and reframe research themes and priorities involving WHO Headquarters and regional offices, Health EDRM RN participants, and other partners
• Ensure real-time evidence remains applicable to ongoing challenges by leveraging the Health EDRM Knowledge Hub to provide timely evidence to inform effective policies, guidelines, practice, capacity development and evaluation
• Foster collaboration at the global, regional, national and inter-regional levels, paying particular attention to countries seeking increased Health EDRM research capabilities and outputs in low- and middle-income countries. This includes increasing the number of case studies and addressing data gaps
• Promote research in regions and countries, and involve more researchers and stakeholders