Sentences with phrase «emergency committee»

If the third scenario does materialise, a group of Emergency Committee experts will already have been put in place at the meeting to advise the WHO on how to respond, he says.

The 13 member Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), including CAFOD, Christian Aid, World Vision and Tearfund, have come together to call for funds to respond to the severe humanitarian needs of those affected.

Following a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee yesterday, a Downing Street spokesperson said: «The meeting reiterated that this is an industrial dispute and that there is no justification for a strike.

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

He confirmed that last week there had been a meeting of Cobra, the cabinet emergency committee, but said this was more to do with concerns about public health than fears that Mr Litvinenko had been murdered.

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

And it says WHO «fed suspicions» about its actions by insisting that Emergency Committee members who gave advice during the pandemic remain confidential and by not revealing their potential conflicts of interest.

The World Health Organization's Ebola emergency committee is also against such measures, saying that travel bans impede the movement of healthcare workers and resources, resulting in more cases which itself increases the risk of international spread.

Kyle Haselden and Martin E. Marty were both members of the National Emergency Committee of Clergy Concerned about Vietnam, a group of religious leaders pressing the president to work toward negotiation and de-escalation (January 29, 1966).

ECOSOC President, Oh Joon, who is also the Permanent Representative of South Korea to the UN, said on Feb. 1, that based on recommendations of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, WHO declared the increasing cases of neonatal and neurological disorders amid the growing Zika outbreak in the Americas a public health emergency.

The new government ran into immediate trouble, failing to trigger the COBRA emergency committee for the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, where the initial state response had compounded the catastrophe.

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

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 Concern (PHEIC).

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.

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.

The website in the sign behind him is for the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI).

Catholic charity CAFOD has been telling Premier that containing Ebola, treating the infected and raising awareness are the main priorities as the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) begins an appeal for West Africa.

It is the first case of the deadly strain of bird flu, which has killed more than 100 people worldwide, found in British birds, and it prompted a meeting of the cabinet emergency committee, Cobra, in Downing Street this morning.

And I've seen her deal with crisis, I've seen her chair the Cobra emergency committee, I've seen her handle these things, and she's absolutely committed above all to keeping this country safe.

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 international concern.

(1) WHO statement on the first meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005)(IHR 2005) Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations.

The WHO's Emergency Committee, which declared Zika an international public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in February, said in a statement that «the Zika virus and associated consequences remain a significant enduring public health challenge requiring intense action but no longer represent a PHEIC.»

It is not a preacher, but Albert Einstein, chairman of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, who writes, «Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men....

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) launched an emergency East Africa Crisis Appeal which raised over # 50m in three weeks.Sixteen million people are...

The UN has described the current situation as the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War and the Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an urgent appeal.

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

On 23 May 1946 Albert Einstein sent a telegram to President Roosevelt on behalf of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, saying in reference to nuclear explosions, «The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe».

On Saturday I chaired a meeting of COBR, the government's emergency committee, to manage our response to this latest threat.

Without waiting to find out what those reasons are, or even for an emergency committee meeting, I have added it to the Supplementary List that I have compiled since the book's publication.

Nick Clegg praised the generosity of the public, which had donated # 33 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).

The British public has now donated # 100 million to the tsunami aid effort, the Disasters and Emergency Committee (DEC) has said.

The government's emergency committee Cobra was chaired by the prime minister this morning.

Ms Beckett confirmed COBRA, the government's emergency committee, has been meeting daily since Friday's incident.

In July, after an Emergency Committee meeting, WHO declared MERS - CoV was not an imminent public health crisis.

Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the WHO, says that the secrecy of the Emergency Committee's membership is maintained to buffer its deliberations from outside pressure.

So the Emergency Committee could not have influenced these in any way.

Both reports say that it is suspicious, for example, that the WHO has kept secret the names of its Emergency Committee, an expert group that advises the WHO on the status of international public - health emergencies, including the declaration of a flu pandemic.

«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.

After an Emergency Committee meeting, WHO raises the pandemic threat level from phase 3 to phase 4, indicating sustained human - to - human transmission in a community.

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.

25 April WHO convenes an Emergency Committee to evaluate evidence.

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.

Transcribe letters written by members of Albert Einstein's Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists following World War II

It is not clear which conditions MERS did not meet in the eyes of the emergency committee, Fidler says.

It was taken after a meeting of WHO's Emergency Committee, originally scheduled for Tuesday but held today in light of the rapidly escalating swine flu situation.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening an emergency committee to determine whether the novel coronavirus that emerged in the Middle East last year constitutes a «public health emergency of international concern.»

But Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute, the German center for disease control, says establishing the emergency committee is more about being prepared and getting together all the information available than trying to apply political pressure.

''... Emergency Committee meeting to ascertain whether the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa constitutes a «public health emergency of international concern»... This is the first time the WHO Emergency Committee is being convened to deliberate on the Ebola Virus.»