Managing crisis situations in the Region
- rapid health assessment
- mobilizing support of WHO technical units and partners
- resource mobilization
Capacity building
- Public Health and Emergency Management in Asia and the Pacific (Inter-Regional and National Training Courses)
- Courses: mass casualty management, hospital/health facilities preparedness, chemical, biological and radionuclear incidents, health emergency planning
- Humanitarian supply management
- Disaster training
Dissemination of health knowledge
- Pocket Emergency Tool for field managers
- Guidelines: mass casualty management; planning; assessment
- Manuals conducting national training courses; drills, exercises
Health emergency and humanitarian action projects
- Healthy Cities Award
- Community based risk reduction projects
- Tradmed Emergency Kits
Strengthening collaboration with focal points, partner agencies
- regional workshops; country reviews
- inter-agency meetings
- strengthening collaborating centres