{"id":1755,"date":"2014-06-24T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T10:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2014-06-24T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T10:28:02","slug":"dr-wendy-harrison-participates-at-world-health-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2014\/06\/24\/dr-wendy-harrison-participates-at-world-health-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Wendy Harrison participates at World Health Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1756\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2014\/06\/wharrison.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Wendy Harrison\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/AP\/faces\/pages\/read\/Home.jsp?person=w.harrison&amp;_adf.ctrl-state=5iufgd62c_3&amp;_afrRedirect=355926403260000\">Dr Wendy Harrison<\/a>, Chairperson of the UK Coalition against Neglected Tropical Diseases and Managing Director of SCI in the School of Public Health participated as a panelist at a side event at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/events\/governance\/wha\/en\/\">World Health Assembly<\/a> on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> May.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the meeting was \u201cThe Power of Integration: achieving the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases\u201d, and in addition to Dr Harrison panelists included Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, Minister of Health, Nigeria;\u00a0 Dr Dirk Engels, Director, Dept of Control of NTDs, WHO ; Nichola Cadge, Health Adviser, DFID and Dr Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Alan Fenwick O.B.E.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Professor of Tropical Parasitology<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/schisto\"><strong> SCI \u2013 Imperial College London<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Wendy Harrison, Chairperson of the UK Coalition against Neglected Tropical Diseases and Managing Director of SCI in the School of Public Health participated as a panelist at a side event at the World Health Assembly on 22nd May. The theme of the meeting was \u201cThe Power of Integration: achieving the control and elimination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14877,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-2","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}