CE-HTM WHO & Ongoing Events

Leader

Paolo Lago

Team

  • Jitendar Sharma (AMTZ, India)

  • Adriana Velazquez (WHO, Switzerland)

  • Adrian Richards (Australia)

  • Zheng Kun (China)

  • Ledina Picari (Albania)

  • Dan Clark (UK)

Project Summary

Enhance CE-HTM professional exchange by facilitating CED involvement in global, regional, and country HT Events.

Key Objectives

  1. Facilitate CED involvement in WHO’s 4GFMD https://www.who.int/medical_devices/global_forum/4th_gfmd/en/; 
  2. Support WHO in their priority projects https://www.who.int/medical_devices/en/; 
  3. Facilitate CED involvement in CED-endorsed Health Technology (HT) related Events throughout the year.

Completed Milestones

  1. Substantial CED involvement at 4GFMD – see https://ced.ifmbe.org/resources/scientific-papers.html
  2. CED assisted WHO with ILO global count of CE-HTM practitioners 2017-2018, see https://www.who.int/medical_devices/support/en/;
  3. European Regional CE Summit to be held in Rome on October 2019;
  4. CED leadership and faculty at 12+ Events from June - December 2018 on 6 continents.
  5. Adriana (WHO): to begin writing a regular column in Global CE Journal re WHO issues
  6. CED leadership and faculty at 12+ more Events in first half of 2019; see https://ced.ifmbe.org/events.html