DATE / TIME:

2018•04•16    12:00 - 14:00

Location:

Kuala Lumpur

Guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) aim to help policy makers, health care providers, and patients make evidence-informed decisions. The potential impact of its recommendations is far reaching, including influencing individual clinician practice, health service organization, the procurement policies of international donors, and potentially the global demand for health technologies. During this session, you will learn how WHO is developing its guidelines and how it supports adaptation of its guidelines in countries.

Flyer and seminar details available here.

Lunch will be provided, with opportunities to interact with the speaker.

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Speaker

Dr Ying-Ru Lo is an infectious disease physician from Hamburg, Germany who took up her duties at the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998. With over three decades of work experience as a clinician and public health adviser, Dr Lo has worked in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific and has held positions at all three levels of the Organization. Dr Lo’s particular interest lies in trans-lating research into implementation. Dr Lo led the introduction of HIV treatment in the early 1990s in Asia, reinvigorated WHO’s global HIV prevention programme in Geneva and more recently led the introduction of hepatitis treatment in Asia.

Dr Lo has more than 50 peer-reviewed articles showcasing the role of Asian expertise in global health published in reputable international journals such as Nature Medicine and The Lancet HIV. She was an associate editor of the Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal.