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Panel 2.17: Private Commercial Sector Partnerships for Health Action in Crises

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Knut Ole Sundnes ,
Milan Sannerkvist ,
Philip Hedger ,
Brent Woodworth ,
Anne Hyre ,
Terrence Cuddyre  and
Ronald Waldman
Knut Ole Sundnes
Affiliation:
President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)
Milan Sannerkvist
Affiliation:
Emergency and Humanitarian Health Coordinator for Southern Africa, World Health Organization/Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO)
Philip Hedger
Affiliation:
Executive Managing Director, International Affairs, Pfizer, Inc.
Brent Woodworth
Affiliation:
Worldwide Segment Manager, International Business Machines (IBM) Crisis Response Team, IBM Global Services
Anne Hyre
Affiliation:
JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Terrence Cuddyre
Affiliation:
Citigroup
Ronald Waldman
Affiliation:
Professor, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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Abstract

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This is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Panel 2.17, Private Commercial Sector Partnerships for Health Action in Crises of the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Phuket, Thailand, 04–06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related to private sector partnerships for health action in crises as pertain to the responses to the damage created by the Tsunami. It is presented in the following sections: (1) key questions; (2) issues and challenges; (3) lessons learned; (4) what was done well?; (5) what could have been done better?; and (6) conclusions and recommendations.

Keywords

collaborationcrisishealth actionneedspartnershipprivatepublicresourcessectortsunami
Type
WHO Special Report: Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 459 - 463
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005