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© WHO Collaborating Centre Imperial College London 2010 The WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training Imperial College London was designated for such a function by the WHO Global Committee with the support of the British Government. The WHO Collaborating Centre is part of the Department Primary Care & Public Health, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. It is currently involved in several major international projects supporting countries in their health systems development, advancing academic institutions, enhancing the role of primary health care, strengthening human resource capacity including public health and clinical training and educational activities, improving institutional and individual quality and performance, addressing the escalating problem worldwide of non-communicable diseases, promoting public health principles and preparing countries for man-made and/or natural disasters through emergency preparedness and planning.The Centre’s work focuses on health as complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. Our remit extends to many countries around the world and includes all six WHO Regions. The Centre continues to expand and has been increasingly active in strengthening primary care and public health through conference papers, workshops and networking, publications. Research has continued into human resource development, service quality, patient safety and public engagement. Consultancy work has focused on health system, human resource, and capacity development, academic advancement and disseminating good practice. Published March 2010

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Activity 2 SMOKING CESSATION TRAINING • WHO Global Smoking Cessation agenda United Arab Emirates, June 2009

• Smoking Cessation Collaboration with Saudi Arabia 12th November 2009

Activity 3 CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS • Effectiveness and Quality of Family Medicine Service Muscat, Oman, 8th June 2010

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• The 5th Omani and the 8th GCC Primary Health Care Conference Sohar, Oman 26th-27th May 2010

• Strengthening PH and PC in Oman 28th-29th May 2010

• Ministry of Health Qatar: Review of the functions and structure of the public health

in Qatar. 26th July – 8th August 2009

• Setting up standardised HR Management System Khartoum, 04th-09th November 2009

Activity 5 HEALTH PROTECTION • Supporting the Lebanese University in developing their capacity in Health

Protection. Beirut, 11th-13th June 2009

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Activity 6 MANAGEMENT OF NCD IN PRIMARY CARE • UK Support to the NCD Global Strategy Joint Meeting Geneva, 20th July 2009

• Supporting Kuwait in developing NCD strategy and tackling the major risk factor of

obesity, smoking, and sedentary lifestyle 13-15th October 2009

Activity 7 SUPPORT ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN EMRO • National Palestinian Institute of Public Health Jerusalem, April 2010

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• National Public Health Institute Sudan, March 2010

• Accreditation of Medical Education Institutes

• World Health Organization and other UN Agencies: Governance in Iraq

Activity 8 DEVELOPMENT OF PROJECT FOR EVALUATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE IN EMRO • Iraq Public Sector Modernisation Project 15th-23rd May 2010

• Ministry of Health, United Arab Emirates: review of Public Health Laws and

legislations (Rawaf, Howse, Maryon-Davis) 30th May - 4th June 2010

• Health System Development and Capacity Building. London, 2nd June 2009

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Activity 9 DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL TOOLS AND STANDARDS IN PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE • Collaboration with the Faculty of Public Health, UK

• Fellowship Programmes

• Family Medicine Training Sudan, April/May 2009 • Health Systems Development Course

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Collaboration – WHO Collaborating Centres

Visits by WHO Collaborating Centre staff: • Malaysia, July 2009 • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, July/August 2009 • Qatar, August 2009 • Iran, October 2009 • Kuwait, October 2009 • Brazil, November 2009 • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, November 2009 • Beirut, December 2009

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• Baghdad, December 2009 • Bahrain, December 2009 • Brazil, March 2010 Delegate/Delegation Visits to WHO Collaborating Centre: • Dr Gustavo Gusso, President, Family Physician Association, Brazil, May 2009. • Dr Kharyia Moosa, Kingdom of Bahrain, Director of Public Health, November 2009. • Dr Kamalih Mohammed, MOH Malaysia, Depty Director, MOH Malaysia, 2009. • Dr Maryam Fadhala, Qatar, 2009-2010 • Dr Hessa Ibrahim Shahbic, Qatar, 2009-2010 • Dr Sameen Saddiqi, MD FCPS MSc DrMed FFPH, EMRO Division of Health Systems and

Services Development, April 2010. • Dr Mohammed Al-Thani, Director of Public Health, Doha, Qatar, May 2010. • Professor Tawfik Khoja, Director General Executive Board Health Minsters Council for

Corporations Councils, May 2010. • Dr Nashwa Bannani, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, July 2010. Presentations: Rawaf S. Primary Healthcare: Integrating Public Health and General Practice/Family Medicine. A presentation at the International Forum of the Academy of the Medical Royal College, Riverside Medical Centre, London, 1st June 2009. Rawaf S. The link between good Primary Health Care and high level of universality: lessons from the UK. A presentation at the 5th Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health; Crete, Greece, 9th-11th June 2009. Rawaf S. Primary Health Care and Public Health: development and collaboration. A presentation at the 5th Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health; Crete, Greece, 9th-11th June 2009. Rawaf S. Ten Steps for revitalisation of primary health care. A presentation at the 5th Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health, Crete, Greece, 9th-11th June 2009. Rawaf S. Practicing Ahead of the Curve. Lebanese University Congress, Beirut 11th-13th June 2009. Rawaf S. Primary Health Care: now, more than ever. A presentation at the Faculty of Public Health Annual Conference, Scarborough, UK, 16th-18th June 2009. Rawaf, S. Can the U.S. provide universal healthcare for all? Some lessons from Europe. 23rd Annual Conference on Counselling & Treating People of Color, Mesa, Arizona, 16th November 2009. Rawaf, S. Experiences in financing and management of primary care for achieving targets. 5th International Conference on Primary Health Care, 2010 March 22nd-27th; Brasília, Brazil Dubois, E. November 14th, 2009. , UND Nursing curriculum. Ethical, Legal, and Health Policy Issues in Healthcare: Public Health Genetics. Dubois, E. University of Dakota, United States.

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Dubois, E. Professional Support in Smoking Cessation. WHO Collaborating Centre. November 19th, 2009. Publications:

• Evans N., MRPharmS, Prof S. Rawaf, MD. Generic substitution may reduce patient adherence further. PJ Online 2nd December 2009.

• Evans N. The Challenge of prescribing-–and patient adherence—in medication management. Managing Pain in Practice, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2010.

• Evans N, Rawaf S. Implementing NICE Guidelines. What is..? Series. London: Hayward

Group Ltd, 2009.

• Rawaf S., Dubois E., Kubba A, Al-Shawaf T., Zoma, Al-Hadithi, T., Elhassani T. Looking to rebuild Iraq’s healthcare system. BMJ 339:b4621, November 10, 2009.

• Alsheikh, GM et al 2009. Use of administrative data sources for health workforce

analysis: multicounty experience in implementation of human resources information systems. In: Handbook on monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health, World Health Organization, Geneva 2009, Chapter 9: 113-128.