IANPHI European Directors Meeting
April 19-20, 2017

Alfavito Hotel, Kyiv, Ukraine

Meeting Agenda

Time / Session
Wednesday April 19, 2017
09:00-9:30 / Opening session
PavloRozenko, Vice Prime-Minister of Ukraine
UlanaSuprun, Minister of Health of Ukraine
Thomas Frellesen, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine
Jean-Claude Desenclos, IANPHI Secretary General
Nataliya Nizova, Director General, Public Health Center(PHC)of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine
MartheEverard, WHO Representative and Head of Country Office to Ukraine
9:30-11:00 / Session 1: Public Health Leadership in the country : Relationship between the NPHI, the MoH, other Ministries (Environment, Education and Social Affairs, Agriculture) and regions/municipalities
Chair : Tracey Cooper, Chief Executive, Public Health Wales
-Challenges identified by the PHC and the Public Health Law in Ukraine – Nataliya Piven, Head of Public Health Department, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Nataliya Nizova, Director General, Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine
Examples provided by 4 NPHI Directors :
-The perspective on managing a PHI; from outsider to insider – André van der Zande, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment(RIVM), Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Netherlands
-Working relations with the Food Safety agency and the Ministry of Agriculture – Myriam Sneyers, the Scientific Institute for Public Health (WIV-ISP), Belgium
-Working for/with the Ministry of Environment– Pietro Comba, IstitutoSuperiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy
-Working for/with the Ministry of Social Affairs and/or Ministry of Education) – JitkaSosnovca, National Institute of Public Health, Czech Republic
Discussion time: 40 minutes, incl. comments byLotharWieler’s, RKI president
11:00-11:30 / Coffee-break
11.30-13:00 / Session 2: Modernization of non-communicable diseases surveillance : Data to inform adequately the NCD strategy / action plan in the country and develop priority actions for prevention and health promotion
Chair : Ivan Erzen, Director, NPHI, Slovenia
-Implementing the action plan for non-communicable diseases for Ukraine – Priority actions for the PHC in 2017 and 2018 for surveillance and health promotion – VladislavZbanatskyi, PHC Deputy Director General on NCDs
Data for prevention and Health promotion actions - Examples from 3 NPHIs :
-Ion Salaru, NPHI Moldova
-RamazUrushadze, NPHIGeorgia
-EnverRoshi, NPHIAlbania
Discussion time : 45 min, incl. comments byPekka Puska’s, IANPHI past President
13:00-14:30 / Lunch
14:30-16:00 / Session 3: The Coalition of partners for strengthening public health services – How IANPHI and its members can be an active partners of the Coalition
Chair : Annemiek van Bolhuis, Director Public Health and Health Services, RIVM
-The Coalition of Partners and its action plan – Anna Cichowska, Programme Manager, Public Health Services (PHS), Division of Health Systems and Public Health, WHO EURO
-Discussion topics:
  • Discussion on IANPHI contribution (and NPHis) to the Coalition of partners; expertise available in the NPHIs to answers needs for countries and for WHO – Euro for the 4 enabling EPHOs as far as an NPHI is concerned.
  • Reflection on the role of the NPHIs in the evaluation of the impact of a reform or of a modernization of the public health system – What indicators could be valuable?
Discussion time : 70 minutes
16:00-16h:30 / Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 / Session 4: Priority issues of NPHIs in terms of internal organization issues/ staffing and competences, prioritization in the context of limited budget and high political demand
Chair : Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive, Public Health England
-Introduction: Current Challenges of the PHC– Nataliya Nizova,Director General, Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine
-Experiences from PHE, Paul Cosford and Santé publique France, Jean-Claude Desenclos
-All Directors to reflect upon their priorities highlighting successes, solutions, bottlenecks: Are there similarities between NPHIs? Good practices to share?
Discussion time : 60 min
19:00 / Social Dinner
Thursday 20 April 2017
09:00-10:30 / Session 5: Making priorities to improve surveillance and control of communicable diseases at the national level
Chair : Isabel Noguer, Director, National Centre of Epidemiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III
-ECDC approach to support reform and transition of CD prevention and control in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) partner countries – Maarit Kokki, ECDC
-Priority actions for the PHC further to the conclusions of the ECDC assessment on CD prevention and control and the lab assessments by WHO/US CDC–Larisa Getman,PHC Deputy Director on CDs
-Prioritization for CD surveillance and structuring of a modern epi surveillance for the country and a public health laboratory system
  • 2 examples :
  • Anders Tegnell, Public Health Agency, Sweden
  • Annika Veimer, NPHI of Estonia
-ECDC approach to support laboratory capacity strengthening – Andrea Ammon, Acting Director, ECDC
Discussion time : 40 min
10:30-11:00 / Coffee-break
11:00-12:30 / Session 6: IANPHI Activities in 2017
Chair : Jean-Claude Desenclos, IANPHI Secretary General
-The European Health Information System – Anne-Catherine Viso, Deputy Director of the office for science and international affairs, Santé publique France
-Work plan for 2017 – 2018 // Strategic planning – Courtenay Dusenbury, Director, IANPHI U.S. Secretariat; Anne-Catherine Viso, Deputy Director of the office for science and international affairs, Santé publique France
-Questions from members
-Update on the 2017 Annual Meeting – Tek-Ang Lim, Programme manager, IANPHI Secretariat main office
-Location of the 2018 European IANPHI Meeting
12:30-13:00 / Closure of the Meeting
13:00-14:00 / Lunch

IANPHI European Directors Meeting is co-organized by IANPHI Europe and Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Ukraine in the context of the “Policy Dialogue for Better Health Governance” project