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  • Fighting Pneumonia: An Agenda for Action - Virtual World Pneumonia Day Webinar Event

Fighting Pneumonia: An Agenda for Action - Virtual World Pneumonia Day Webinar Event

  • 14 Nov 2022
  • 6:00 AM - 7:30 AM
  • Webinar

Pneumonia is the world’s leading infectious killer, claiming the lives of an estimated 2.5 million people in 2019, including 672,000 children under five and 1.2 million adults over 70 years. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the burden of respiratory infection deaths to more than 6 million in 2021.

Urgent action is needed to both reduce the massive burden of sickness and death from pneumonia
and reduce the risk that future respiratory pandemics will kill millions more.

For World Pneumonia Day, the Fondation Mérieux and Every Breath Counts Coalition are joining forces to host a critical conversation on what governments and international agencies must do to reduce pneumonia deaths and the risk of future respiratory pandemics – featuring:

- ‘Pneumonia and the Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities’ – Professor Eric McCollum, Johns Hopkins University, Lesotho
- ‘Reducing a Critical Pneumonia Risk: Household Air Pollution’ – Professor Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sri Ramachandra Institute for Higher Education and Research, India
- ‘The Power of the Pneumonia-Fighting Vaccines’ – Dr Chizoba Wonodi, International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), Nigeria
- ‘The Critical Role of Pulse Oximetry in Reducing Child Pneumonia Deaths’ – Dr Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, icddr,b, Bangladesh
- ‘Transforming Pneumonia Diagnosis: Lung Ultrasound and New Tests for Aetiology’ – Professor Heather Zar, President, Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) and University of Cape Town, South Africa
- ‘Increasing access to medical oxygen: leveraging COVID-19 support’ – Dr Hamish Graham, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), Australia

The webinar will also showcase video footage from the winners of the Small Grants Awards for the World Pneumonia Week of Action from 7 to 12 November 2022.

Program focal points :
Valentina Picot, Mérieux Foundation
Leith Greenslade, Every Breath Counts Coalition



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