During this day the Minister of Health (s), Christopher Squareaccompanied by the head of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health (Minsal), christian garciapresented the members of the new National Pandemic Response Commission, an entity that was announced last week by the Health authorities as part of the new strategies to combat Covid-19 in our country.
Regarding the organization, Cuadrado pointed out that the commission is in line with a redesign of decision-making that the President’s mandate seeks, Gabriel Boric. “With it, we seek a new management model that cares for the population and integrates communities, territories, experts, and experts in a dialogic manner, based on decision-making based on the best available evidence,” he explained.
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He also stated that the entity is made up of an external advisory council, with two high-level specialists independent of the Minsal, as well as an executive secretariat that has technical teams from the Ministry of Health and the Institute of Public Health (ISP). .
Commission Members
The highest authorities of the Commission are the Minister of Health, Maria Begona Yarzathe undersecretary of Public Health, Cristóbal Cuadrado, and the undersecretary of Healthcare Networks, Fernando Araos.
“The recommendations made by the commission are reported to them, and based on that, we will make decisions,” Cuadrado said.
In addition, the undersecretary of Public Health stated that “people who go beyond the health sector joined.” “We also add the expert journalist in risk communication, Maritza Labrana, who played a central role in risk communication for the H1N1 pandemic. Likewise, the economic sector will be represented by the economist from the U. Adolfo Ibáñez, Andrea Repettoand the social sciences, will have the representation with Monica Gerber“, he pointed out.
The 12 members of the National Pandemic Response Commission:
- Ximena Aguilera, President of the Advisory Council: Epidemiologist from the U. del Desarrollo. WHO advisor.
- Ignatius Silva, Vice President of the Advisory Council: Infectologist and academic from the U. Santiago de Chile.
- Maria Theresa Valenzuela: former undersecretary of Public Health, academic of the U. de los Andes.
- Oscar Arteaga: director of the School of Public Health of the University of Chile.
- Catherine Ferreccio: Epidemiologist of the Catholic University and member of the Advisory Council.
- Raphael Araos: former head of the Department of Epidemiology of the Minsal, specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases.
- Janeette Dabanch: Infectologist and academic at the Hospital Clínico de la U. de Chile, member of the Minsal Vaccine Advisory Council.
- Mercedes Lopez: Immunologist, professor and researcher at the U. de Chile, director of the immunology program at the U. de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy.
- Ana Maria Moraga: Epidemiologist, member of the National Cancer Commission.
- Maritza Labrana: An expert journalist in risk communication, she is currently the head of communications at the San Juan de Dios Hospital.
- Andrea Repetto: Economist from the U. Adolfo Ibáñez,
- Monica Gerber: Sociologist and PhD in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
technical tables
It was also reported that the Commission will have the work of seven permanent technical committees that will begin operating this week and their purpose is “to prepare and deliver inputs for the collective deliberation of decisions.”
The tables will be made up of academics who represent other public organizations, as well as members of civil society.
“They will work periodically on the different matters that are relevant to the control of the pandemic. On the one hand, therapies to face covid; secondly, diagnostic-surveillance strategies; thirdly, vaccines; fourthly, first, pharmacological prevention measures; a fifth table for preparing the healthcare network and support for health personnel; and then tables for social and economic measures and intersectoral adaptation, understanding that the management of the pandemic must look at society as a whole ”, they detailed from the Minsal.
Finally, it was communicated that the tables will meet regularly on Tuesdays and that the next meeting of the external advisory council will be this Friday, March 25.
