Webinar: Disaster Risk Reduction and Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the close link between health and disaster risk reduction. This calls for a reflection on past practices, current capacities and plans for increasing investments to strengthen implementation of International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005) and the health aspects of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, as articulated in the Bangkok Principles (2016).

The Sendai Framework and the IHR together provide a basis for coherent action to facilitate building resilience and health security in communities and countries. Further, the WHO Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (EDRM) Framework provides global guidance to countries on putting in place the capacities and functions, within and across health and other sectors, to reduce health emergency risks and impacts.

UNDRR and WHO are organizing a webinar to highlight the existing tools to enhance the integration of disaster risk reduction in all sectors to manage health and related risks including for disease outbreaks, as a key example of a multi-sectoral approach to disaster risk management.

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