Semi-annual High-Level meeting and Annual Technical Workshop of the Polio Partners Group
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Excellencies, Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to remind you that the Polio Partners Group (PPG) will convene for our semi-annual high-level meeting and annual technical workshop on Monday, 3 December, Salle B at the Headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva. The technical workshop is scheduled to begin at 09.30 and the high-level meeting will begin at 13.30.
If you are planning to attend, kindly send your RSVP to molly.moss@ucdenver.edu; takato.koizumi@mofa.go.jp; and ppgjapan@gv.mofa.go.jp. Note that participants will also have to register their attendance through the INDICO system. Directions on this process will be provided in a future email.
We are proposing agendas that will cover the following topics. As always, we welcome and appreciate your feedback.
Technical Workshop
- Extension of GPEI until 2023
- What needs to be done differently 2018-2023
High-level Meeting
- Poliovirus detection and interruption
- Legacy planning
- Financial resource requirements
We would also like to remind you about the Polio Lessons Learned Survey. If you have spent at least 12 months implementing activities under GPEI between 1988 and present date, please consider participating in this important effort to map tacit knowledge of GPEI actors.
We look forward to your participation.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Jon Kim Andrus
Director, Division of Vaccines and Immunization
Center for Global Health, University of Colorado
H.E. Mr. Ken Okaniwa
Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva
Co-Chairs, Polio Partners Group
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
