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Saleh AlSalehi, MD - Chair |
Saudi Arabia |
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Marisa Herran, MD, Co Chair |
USA |
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Srivieng Pairojkul, MD |
Thailand |
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Mao Meng, MD |
China |
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Ejaz Ahmed, MD |
Pakistan |
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Marie-Claude Bottimeau, MD |
Switzerland |
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Angela Okolo, MD |
Nigeria |
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Dr. Milagros Martin de Pumarejo, MD |
Puerto Rico |
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Karen Olness, MD |
USA |
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The TAG HE prioritizes helping children and their families in disaster times through training of professionals and active participation in rescue missions on volunteer basis.
In disaster setting, well meaning workers often lack of child health or development expertise. People throughout the world emphasize that "Children are the future" at same time, adult policy makers often do not know that the brains of young children develop most rapidly in the first year of life and that most brain development is completed by age three. It is these very young children who are the most helpless, the most vulnerable, and the least able to communicate what they need, and yet are at the greatest risk of suffering irreversible brain injury in disaster situations.
IPA IAGHE has committed to help children and their families and disaster areas to minimize the psychosocial effects on children.
TAG HE program activities were already done in some of the countries, especially in the countries were affected by natural or man-made disaster. The IPA will be able to help the children in disaster thru TAG HE who imparted knowledge to the child healthcare professionals throughout the world.
This task force was established 15 years ago and was working in different non-governmental organization and conducting multiple activities including visiting and assisting health care professional and disaster areas.
1. Engagements of many professionals and attract attention of officials and non officials on the importance and the urgent needs of children involved in humanitarian emergencies.
2. Organized four workshops in collaboration with different international governments and non governments agencies including: Haiti in March 2011, a workshop on The Psychosocial Needs of Children in Disasters, a workshop, organized in collaboration with the Lao University of Health Sciences and Khon Kaen University in Thailand, the Melbourne ICP 2013 workshop (report attached) and "Psychosocial issues of Children and Relief Workers after disasters" in the Philippines (report attached).
3. The TAG also has a long list of teaching modules which can be shared and implemented globally.
4. Published a manual on helping children and their families in humanitarian emergencies in three languages (sponsored by Health Frontiers)
Establish Standby consultative team of child health professionals with expertise in how to help children in disasters and also to help pediatric colleagues who are themselves victims of disasters.
Latest Event:
IPA Congress
Melbourne, Australia
August 2013
Around 40 people attended the workshop on helping children and their families in disaster time
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March 2011 |
A Workshop on "The Psychological Needs of Children in Disasters" Haiti In collaboration with the Haitian Pediatric Society, and was funded by the IPA and Health Frontiers. All faculty were volunteers. Participants included 21 Haitian pediatricians, 15 child psychologists and 5 social workers.
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Done (Evaluations were excellent) |
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A workshop organized in collaboration with "Lao University of Health Sciences" and "KhonKaen University" Thailand It was also funded by the IPA and Health Frontiers. The workshop director was Dr. SriviengPairojkul, who brought volunteer faculty from KhonKaen University to Vientiane Laos where the workshop was conducted. Forty three Lao physicians from nine provinces in Laos attended the five day workshop. |
Done (Evaluations were excellent) |
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August 25, 2013 |
"Humanitarian Emergencies TAG Meeting" ICP 2013 Melbourne, Australia
Participants emphasized that the special needs of children in disasters are still not sufficiently recognized. They provided several examples related to their observations in Pakistan and in Nigeria during disasters. Dr. Herran also summarized the current plans for professionalization of relief workers. This is led by a group in England and by a university consortium in the US. (Please see attached for more reports)
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January 2014 |
"Psychosocial Workshop" Manila, Philippines
The workshop was organized over a period of five weeks and most planning was accomplished via emails between Drs. Ribaya and Olness. A final planning face to face meeting was held in Manila on January 15 with Drs. Ribaya, Olness, Lopez,Madrid, San Agustin, Holsinger, Esmaili and Ms. Barrera and Ms. Tica.
69 persons attended the workshop. 20 had to be turned down for lack of space to accommodate more small groups. Participants represented over ten organizations and at least five provinces in the Philippines. Most moving and enlightening were the presentations by participants who had personally experienced typhoon Yolanda and those who were relief workers in the aftermath. (Please see attached for more reports)
1. IPA TAG HE Aug 25 2013 Melbourne
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