Greetings from Italy!
This is the first Newsletter of the year 2022 and the first that is written by Italy as a Chair of the GHSA Steering Group. Yet the activity for 2022 has already started with a good pace.
Dear all GHSA Colleagues,
Sawasdee from Thailand!
It was a pleasure serving as the Chair of the Global Health Security Agenda Steering Group this past year.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the Government of Uganda will assume responsibilities as co-Chair of the GHSA Action Package for Biosafety and Biosecurity (APP3) for the 2021-2022 term beginning in November of this year.
We have now reached the midway point of the year and the midway point in our role as the GHSA Steering Group Chair. While some countries are showing signs of optimism that we can emerge from COVID-19, the state of the world is still that of a pandemic.
Greetings from Thailand!
With continued challenges and the layers of issues brought on by the pandemic, we are reminded once again of the important role that the GHSA has been working with countries in preparing to better prevent and manage infectious disease health threats.
Let’s start this newsletter edition with a warm welcome to our newest GHSA member, The Gambia, to our GHSA community.
It has now been three months that Thailand has served as the Chair of the devoted and friendly GHSA Steering Group. We are putting forth our best efforts to increase the visibility of GHSA’s global contributions.
In 2019 CARPHA became an active member of the international network for the GHSA Action Package for Biosafety and Biosecurity (Action Package Prevent 3). On request of the previous Chair – Portugal,
