Sentences with phrase «emergency committee on»

WHO Director Margaret Chan announced she would call a meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on Feb. 1 to discuss the Zika epidemic and what needs to be done at the global level to address the disease.

This follows a decision by the CAF Emergency Committee on December 1, and ratified by the CAF Executive Committee on January 10.

Not exact matches

The partisan quarrel comes as the Commons international trade committee is poised to meet Friday to consider a joint Conservative - NDP request for an emergency summer meeting to grill key ministers on Canada's approach to the NAFTA negotiations.

UK faith leaders have called on Christians and Muslims to give generously to the Disasters Emergency Committee's (DEC) Appeal for people fleeing Myanmar.

I surveyed 30 faculty members who would be inconvenienced, and an emergency meeting of the Faculty Advisory Committee on Athletics was held before we submitted our request to attend a bowl to the chancellor, who in turn sought counsel from the Faculty Committee on Bowl Selection before giving the go - ahead.

The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, United States Breastfeeding Committee, International Lactation Consultant Association / United States Lactation Consultant Association, and La Leche League International strongly affirm the importance of breastfeeding in emergency situations, and call on relief workers and health - care providers serving victims of disasters to protect, promote, and support mothers to breastfeed their babies.

Despite his committee's conclusions he said he would back the government on 42 days because «it is an emergency temporary provision» containing «guarantees» protecting civil liberties.

After the online search, I sought the advice of members of Media and Information Committee on Emergency Management (MICEM) where I was once the Secretary.

Commons deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle said Parliament's security committee will hold an emergency meeting later on Thursday to discuss security arrangements on the estate.

The Nigeria Labour Congress is currently in an emergency meeting of its organs — the National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee in Abuja where it seeks to reach a resolution on the ongoing strike.

The leadership of the factional Labour Union made this known having rose from an emergency meeting of its organs — the National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee in Abuja where it sought to reach a resolution on the ongoing strike.

Thursday At the City Council on Thursday, the following committees will hold preliminary budget hearings: — Transportation at 9:30 a.m., regarding the MTA — Fire and Emergency Management at noon, regarding Fire / Emergency Medical Service and the Office of Emergency Management — For - Hire Vehicles at 1:30 p.m., regarding the Taxi and Limousine Commission — Transportation and the Capital Budget at 3 p.m., regarding the DOT expense and capital budgets

After nearly a week of below - freezing overnight temperatures, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Member Annabel Palma, who chairs the general welfare committee, called for the city's Department of Homeless Services to enact immediate changes to emergency housing that would ensure families have a warm place to sleep on cold nights.

Commissioner Daniel Nigro revealed the benchmarks during questioning from City Council Speaker Corey Johnson during a hearing on diversity in the fire department held by the council's new committee on fire and emergency management.

The decision was taken on Friday at an emergency National Executive Committee meeting at the party's headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra.

May is expected to chair a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee later on Sunday to review Britain's security response the Paris attacks.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

The county's e-911 emergency communications system on Golden Hill in Kingston is not only antiquated, charged members of the volunteer Fire Safety Advisory Board at a meeting of the county legislature's Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee this week, but vendors are now telling the county they won't be making parts for it much longer.

International Joint Committee on Emergency Planning (Erie County, Niagara County and Region Niagara of Canada)

The Brooklyn Democrat is calling on the City Council's sanitation committee to hold emergency hearings to address what he is calling the city's «colossal failure.»

The governor announced the proscription on Wednesday after an emergency State Executive committee meeting.

The Electoral Commission (EC) started the printing of pink sheets for the 2016 elections today [Thursday] but is yet to decide on whether to hold the emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting requested by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over alleged illegalities in the process.

They told MPs on the Health Select Committee that it is the equivalent of filling an extra nine emergency departments.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue.

Chairman of the State Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Mr. Joshua Omokanye made this known while addressing journalists after an emergency meeting of the State Joint Accounts Allocation Committee (JAAC) held on Monday in Ilorin.

This decision was agreed upon at an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting held on Wednesday evening.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd will chair a meeting of the government emergency committee Cobra on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments in the case.

The committee has heard debate on a number of innocuous proposals relating to everything from letting people to text their emergencies to 911 to regulations on drones to reporting of hate crime and domestic violence statistics to crossing guard deployment.

The State Epidemiologist, Dr David Karatu, made the disclosure on Thursday in Gombe at the State Emergency Rapid Response Committee review meeting on the committee success and antiCommittee review meeting on the committee success and anticommittee success and anticipation.

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - Westchester / Rockland), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today announced that Rockland County has been awarded $ 1,624,950 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding.

The committee recommended a sustained focus on HIV / AIDS through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with continued emphasis on accountability, efficiency, and measurement of results.

«A key question will be whether the pharmaceutical companies, which had invested around $ 4 billion in developing the swine flu vaccine, had supporters inside the emergency committee, who then put pressure on WHO to declare a pandemic,» says the article in the BMJ.

The Geneva - based organization planned to convene its Emergency Committee, called under the rules of the International Health Regulations, on Tuesday to reevaluate the threat level but bumped it up 1 day.

On February 1, 2016, a World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee declared clusters of birth defects suspected of being linked to an epidemic of Zika virus in the Americas as a Public Health Emergency of International Concernemergency committee declared clusters of birth defects suspected of being linked to an epidemic of Zika virus in the Americas as a Public Health Emergency of International ConcernEmergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

Asked why WHO convened the emergency committee only this week, WHO Assistant Director - General Keiji Fukuda this morning said the organization was initially focused on coordinating the response on the ground and on raising awareness and drumming up political support, for instance at a meeting of health ministers in Accra in early July and a meeting with Chan and West African presidents last week.

Q: WHO's Emergency Committee regarding Ebola recently criticized 34 countries for imposing «disproportionate» restrictions on travel to and from the Ebola region; it said this is hampering the response and recovery efforts.

The so - called emergency committee of public health experts, which WHO established on 5 July, met for the first time last week.

In September 2015 the Science Media Centre submitted written evidence to the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on what lessons have been drawn from the Ebola outbreak last year concerning the use of scientific advice in the UK for similar disease outbreak emergencies in future.

The agency's director general, Dr. Margaret Chan, said the panel of outside experts that advises her on Ebola — the so - called Emergency Committee — has recommended that the outbreak no longer constitute a public health emergency of internationalEmergency Committee — has recommended that the outbreak no longer constitute a public health emergency of internationalemergency of international concern.

In her May 13, 1999, testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Feistritzer acknowledged that the term alternative teacher certification can mean many different things, «from emergency certification to very sophisticated and well - designed programs that address the professional preparation needs of the growing population of individuals who already have at least a baccalaureate degree and considerable life experience and want to become teachers.»

In addition to serving on the district's Strategic Plan 5 - Year Renewal Committee, he recently oversaw the revision of the district's Crisis Response Manual which outlines emergency policies and procedures that will be implemented in all six of the district's schools.

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill to ensure students receive instruction on CPR and other lifesaving emergency procedures split the House Education Committee on Wednesday, drawing discussion on the proper role of government and the earmarking of funds.

Following an emergency meeting of the Hartford Federation of Teacher's Executive Committee on Monday, a meeting that candidate Luke Bronin attended but where he failed to appropriately address his relationship with the charter school industry, the HFT voted unanimously to withdraw their endorsement of Bronin and his campaign for mayor.

On August 29, 2013, FRA convened an emergency session of the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC).

He also serves as the DOT lead on the US - Russia Joint Committee on Cooperation in Emergency Management.

Dr. Rick has served on The Admissions Committee for the College of Veterinary Medicine at The University Florida - Gainesville and is currently the board president for the Central Florida Veterinary Emergency Clinic.

The designation is through the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care's (ACVECC) Board of Regents and the Veterinary Committee On Trauma's (VetCOT) Veterinary Trauma Center (VTC) Network.

(Presented by Noah's Wish) Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue Training Course It was held March 25 - 27, 2008 at the LSU - Fire & Rescue Training Center (Sponsored by LSART, LSU - EHSP, LSU Fire & Rescue, LSU E.J. Ourso College of Business Stephenson Disaster Management Institute, and LVMA Equine Committee Foundation) Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue Training Course It was held October 11 - 14, 2007 at the LSU - Fire & Rescue Training Center (Sponsored by LSART, LSU - EHSP, LSU Fire & Rescue, LVMA WJE, LVMA Equine Foundation) For a link to a video clip that ran on WBRZ News Channel 2 click here..

Anna's work in the community includes Girls on the Run of Southeast Tennessee, Board Co-Chair; Membership Secretary of Directors of Volunteers in Agencies; and work with the Southeast Tennessee Public Health Emergency Preparedness Advisory Group and Hamilton County Spontaneous Unaffiliated Volunteer Committee.

In addition to this, Dr. Ayoob also serves on the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care's Emergency Clinic Standards Committee.