Programme

This session brings together leaders of frontline service delivery organizations, UNRWA and NGOs who have all worked towards meeting the basic rights to health.

While we reflect on the immediate response that has taken place for continuous service delivery in the Gaza strip and discuss the ongoing challenges encountered, we look forward to the stabilization period, i.e. the transition between response and recovery, and early to mid-term recovery.

The goal of this phase of recovery is to support humanitarian response and lay the foundation for long-term health systems recovery.

Moderated by Rihab Sandouka, Juzoor & Chantale Al Lakis, KIT Institute

Panel:

• Dr. Ghada Al Jadba, Chief of the Health Program, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
• Rasha Al Moghany, Gaza Programme and Quality Manager, Medical Aid for Palestine
• Mohamed Salha, interim director of Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalya
• Dr Yasser Abu-Jamei – Gaza Community Mental Health Programme 
• Mirjam van Dorssen – Oxfam

Together with key experts and representatives of organizations supporting the Gaza health workforce, in this session we will dive deeper into the daily life and issues of a health worker in Gaza, discuss coping and support mechanisms to address their challenges and explore immediate and longer-term needs in light of future strategic directions for human resources for health response and recovery.

Moderated by Dr. Marjolein Dieleman (KIT Institute) & Olivier Onvlee (KIT Institute) 

Panel:

• Dr. Tammam Aloudat, MSF
• Dr. Abdulattif Al-Haj, Deputy Minister Assistant of Health Services
• Dr. Mohammed Alkhadi, University of Oxford, The Global Health Network, MENA network, Canadian University Dubai
• Prof. Dr. Nick Maynard, Oncology Surgeon, Medical Aid for Palestine

This session will bring together experts from both Palestinian and international organizations to showcase the status of medicines supply for health care delivery. Panelist will explore this topic holistically by considering the different domains of medicines management cycle.

The cycle represents the ideal steps taken for the effective management of medicines supply to ensure equitable access.

The ideal assumes that rational selection, affordable prices, reliable supply/transportation systems, and sustainable financing are present. The panelists will explore deviations from the ideal and highlight the current needs in each domain of the medicines management cycle.

Moderated by Dr Fawzi Al-Hammouri (GHI) & Dr Nwanneka Okere (KIT Institute)

Panel:

• Dr Othman Ahmed Ali Smadi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Hashemite University
• Dr Adib Chouiki, Vice President, Rahma Worldwide
• Sandra Rasheed, Anera Palestine country director
• Dr. Marwan Hinnawi, director of planning and programs department Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization

This session will reflect and assess the status of the health information system to provide information on 3 critical areas: outbreak surveillance, critical maternal and child health indicators, and service availability and preparedness.

It will seek to outline strategies for restarting the health information system to inform on the three critical areas directly after cease-fire and outline the required governance, infrastructure and operational resources needed to restart and rebuild the health information system in short-term and long-term.

Moderated by Nima Yaghmaei (KIT Institute) & Dr Ente Rood (KIT Institute) 

Panel:

• Zaher Whaidi, Director of Health Information Center Ministry of Health ( video)

• Dr. Amrish Baidjoe, Director of MSF-LuxOR

• Nabil Tabbal, Health Information Officer at WHO Headquarters

• Wafaa Zeidan, Health Information & Systems Officer at UNRWA

• Dr. Paul Spiegel, Director of Johns Hopkins Centre for Humanitarian Health

Various initiatives have emerged and are committed to support students to continue their medical education, in collaboration with Palestinian medical education institutes. This session will bring these stakeholders together to discuss the needs, learn from successful initiatives and identify short- and long-term priorities and strategies to support the medical education system.

Meanwhile, the future health workforce needs to be prepared to serve a population with different needs, including trauma, disabilities, response to outbreaks and other public health concerns. They’ll need to understand how to work in and support a system that needs to be rebuild.

Moderated by Dr Hani Khoury (LKF) & Dr Irene de Vries (KIT Institute)

Panel:

• Prof. Bassam Abu Hamad, Dean of School of Public Health Al-Quds University ( pre-recorded video)

• Prof. Mahmoud Loubani, Chair at PalMed Academy

• Rouba Al Fehmi, NAAMA ( video)

• Prof. Omar Lattouf, GHI

• Prof. dr. Harold van Rijen – Director medical education UMC Utrecht

Panel:

• • Dr. Ahmed Shattat, Acting Director of International Cooperation, Ministry of Health (by video) 
  • Dr. Ghada Al Jadba, UNRWA
  • Dr. Ibrahim Bou-Orm, Queen Margaret University 
  • Dr. Ali Ardalan, Regional Adviser and Head of Health Systems in Emergencies WHO EMRO
  • Dr. Ramin Ziwary, World Bank