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WHO Lyon Office for National Epidemic Preparedness and Response
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Mission
Copyright Muriel Chaulet
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The mission of the WHO Lyon Office is to, in collaboration with the WHO Regional and Country Offices, assist countries to strengthen their national surveillance and response systems to better detect, assess, notify events and respond to public health risks emergencies of international concern under the International Health Regulations (2005) or "IHR (2005)."
History
The WHO Lyon Office was inaugurated on 8 February 2001 to support WHO Regional Offices in their commitment to help developing countries improve their public health epidemiology and laboratory diagnostic competencies. The WHO Lyon Office grew out of the vision of the French Government, the Grand Lyon, the Fondation Mérieux and WHO and the partnership on which the office was founded was agreed to for a five year period. Lyon was chosen as the site of the WHO Office because of its scientific, institutional and industrial development strategy, centred on vaccinology, immuno-virology and biotechnology.
Over the past five years, the scope of activities in the Office was broadened, and since November 2006, the Office is part of the IHR Coordination Programme at WHO headquarters. An additional role of the Office is now to assist countries to strengthen their core public health capacities for disease surveillance and response, which will in turn strengthen international public health security.
A new partnership agreement was signed on 13 April 2005 to maintain the WHO Lyon Office until 2010. Two new local partners - the Rhône-Alpes Region and the Rhône Department - have joined this endeavour for the next five years. The Institut Pasteur, which had already joined the initial partnership, also signed the new agreement.
Following the International Agency for Research on Cancer, this is the second WHO office in Lyon.
Activities
Our activities focus on strengthening national core public health capacities for disease surveillance and response through:
For more details see WHO Lyon Office activity reports:
2007
2006
2005
2001-2004
Contact us
WHO Lyon Office
58, avenue Debourg
69007 Lyon
E-mail: oms@lyon.who.int
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