Technical Science for Health Network: Techne: activity report 2020-2024

Table of Contents

• Abstract 5
• Foreword 7
• Acknowledgements 8
• Abbreviations 9
• 1. Who is WHO-Techne? 14
• 1.1 Created in response to frontline demand 14
• 1.2 Supported by a multidisciplinary network 15
• 2. How WHO-Techne works? 19
• 2.1 Faster 20
• 2.2 Smoother 20
• 2.3 Fairer 21
• 2.4 Smarter 21
• 2.5 Louder 22
• 3. What WHO-Techne does 25
• 3.1 Country technical support 26
• 3.1.1 The Help Desk: Facility design support - COVID-19 and other emergencies 26
• 3.1.2 Temporary Emergency Treatment Centre (ETC) development 28
• 3.1.3 Permanent emergency health facility development and redesign 31
• 3.1.4 Operational field deployments 34
• 3.1.5 Inter-departmental operational supports 37
• 3.2 Publications and tools 39
• 3.2.1 Severe Acute Respiratory Infection facilities: Practical manual to design, set up and manage S 39
• 3.2.2 The Airborne Risk Indoor Assessment (ARIA) in the context of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 39
• 3.2.3 Ensuring a safe environment for patients and staff in COVID-19 health-care facilities 40
• 3.2.4 The Roadmap to improve and ensure good indoor ventilation in the context of COVID-19 40
• 3.2.5 Essential Items Estimator Tool 40
• 3.2.6 The HEF Tool 41
• 3.3 Capacity Building 42
• 3.3.1 WHO-Techne webinars 42
• 3.3.2 Online courses - Curriculum development for OpenWHO platform 42
• 3.3.3 WHO-Techne’s International Multidisciplinary Summer School on Systemic Design for Health-Buil 43
• 3.4 Operational research and Innovation 44
• 3.4.1 Rapidly deployable Health Emergency Facilities (HEF) 44
• 3.4.2 INITIATE 47
• 3.4.3 WHO-Techne, WHO/AFRO and POLITO win the International Innovative Health Design Award ) 50
• 3.4.4 WI2N - WHO Informal Infrastructure Investment Network 53
• 4. How does WHO-Techne want to further develop 55
• Invitation to join the WHO-Techne network 57
• References 58
• Annex 1. WHO-Techne Terms of reference - summary 60
• For more information 62