Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 22;18(9):4447. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18094447.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners established the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network (HEALTH EDRM RN) in 2016 to respond to the increasing burden of recent health emergencies and disasters. The mission of the HEALTH EDRM RN, whose secretariat is located at the WHO Kobe Centre (WKC), is to promote global research collaboration and strengthen research activities to inform policies and programs by generating new evidence to manage health risks associated with all types of emergencies and disasters. With the strong support and involvement of all WHO regional offices, the HEALTH EDRM RN now works with more than 200 global experts and partners to pursue its mission. The first Core Group Meetings of the HEALTH EDRM RN were held on 17-18 October 2019, and concluded with the HEALTH EDRM RN-activity priorities to (1) promote operational research to better meet the needs of emergency- and disaster-exposed individuals and communities and efforts to translate science to policies and programs and (2) strengthen the research capacity of the Health EDRM community. In collaboration with the Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine, the WKC held a workshop on 21 February 2020, in which 20 Japanese experts from different research fields participated to further discuss these two points. This paper summarizes the discussion at the workshop.
世界卫生组织（世卫组织）及其合作伙伴于 2016 年成立了世卫组织卫生应急和灾害风险管理研究专题平台网络（HEALTH EDRM RN），以应对近期卫生突发事件和灾害造成的负担日益加重的问题。世卫组织神户中心（WKC）为该网络秘书处所在地，其使命是促进全球研究合作，加强研究活动，通过生成新证据来管理与各类突发事件和灾害相关的健康风险，为政策和规划提供信息。在所有世卫组织区域办事处的大力支持和参与下，HEALTH EDRM RN 目前与 200 多名全球专家和合作伙伴一道开展工作，以实现其使命。HEALTH EDRM RN 的第一次核心小组会议于 2019 年 10 月 17 日至 18 日举行，会议结束时确定了 HEALTH EDRM RN 的优先活动，以：（1）促进业务研究，更好地满足处于紧急情况和灾害环境中的个人和社区的需求，并努力将科学转化为政策和规划；（2）加强卫生应急和灾害风险管理界的研究能力。WKC 与日本灾害医学协会合作，于 2020 年 2 月 21 日举办了一次研讨会，来自不同研究领域的 20 名日本专家参加了研讨会，以进一步讨论这两点。本文总结了研讨会的讨论情况。
