7 MARCH 2023, SEEHN SECRETARIAT CELEBRATED ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE SEAT OF SEEHN SECRETARIAT IN SKOPJE

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Madam First Lady, Representatives of Ministry of Health of North Macedonia, Ambassadors of the SEEHN member states, representatives of partner organizations and dear SEEHN friends gathered today in Member’s of Parliament Club in Skopje to celebrate the 10th anniversary from the Inauguration of the Seat of the Secretariat of the SEE Health Network in Skopje.
“Today the SEEHN Secretariat is a fully functional administrative body, with experienced personnel dedicated to its main goal, which is to ensure better health and well-being among the peoples of the SEE region. It also provides space and support to each member state, partner, organization, and each person involved to move forward.”, said Dr Mira Jovanovski Dasic, Director of the SEEHN Secretariat
“The Republic of North Macedonia recognized the importance of such regional cooperation in health and has been part of this success story from the very beginning. Ten years ago the Agreement for the Seat of the Secretariat of the SEE Health Network was ratified and North Macedonia became the host country of the SEEHN Secretariat. The Secretariat became the leader of a new era in the development of the SEEHN Network by providing support for the successful functioning of all the member states activities through the voice of their professionals and experts, by translating their proposals for mutual cooperation into reality”, emphasized the Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of North Macedonia, Dr Maja Manoleva

Guests also enjoyed the short video presenting the development of the Network and Secretariat, available here.

ADVANCED TRAINING WORKSHOP- Strengthening Surveillance and Causality Assessment of Adverse Events Following Immunization in SEE

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The South East European Centre for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases – SECID, SEEHN RHDC in collaboration with WHO Regional Office for Europe, the Centers of Disease Control, USA and Task Force for Global Health has convened an advanced training workshop on surveillance and causality assessment of adverse events following immunization (AEFI), held in Tirana, Albania in the period 30th November – 2nd December 2022.

SEEHN Secretariat Director, Dr Mira Jovanovski Dasic addressed the audience online. Her message focused on the importance of the topic discussed and also cross-regional collaboration that is important to be kept especially view the immunisation sensitivity.

With the participation of lecturers in person and remotely from WHO Regional Office for Europe, Canada, Germany, Estonia, Serbia, US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, and Uppsala Monitoring Center, during this very intense 3 days training brought great interest and a lot of discussion on the table.

The aim of the workshop was to provide guidance and technical advice to national experts from the Southern-eastern Europe Health Network Member States and guests on strengthening surveillance and causality assessment of AEFIs, by updating the national policies procedures and tools on surveillance of AEFIs to further strengthen the national mechanisms to detect, respond, assess causality and communicate effectively on serious adverse events following immunization.

Participants committed to improve their AEFI systems and causality assessments. By the end of the workshop they came up with a draft plan for actions on improving their systems engaging drugs regulators, immunization programs and other national stakeholders.

IIn addition, multiple cross-cutting issues were identified so that they can be addressed at regional level.