The first EU SHIPSAN ACT Joint Action training course was conducted in Tivoli Terme, Rome, Italy from Tuesday 8th to Thursday 10th October 2013. The course was co-organised by the EU SHIPSAN ACT Joint Action and the Italian Ministry of Health. A total of 29 trainees participated in the training course: 16 seafarers from 6 cruise companies, 1 ferry company and 1 ship management company and 13 port health officers.
For further information please visit the SHIPSAN ACT website www.shipsan.eu
WHO teams on Ports, Airports and Ground Crossings (PAG) and Human Resources Development and Training (HRT) have developed a blended learning programme to support the learning needs of Member States to implement learning for port health inspectors responsible for ship inspection and issuance of Ship Sanitation Certificate under the IHR 2005.
New language versions of Handbook for inspection of ships and issuance of ship sanitation certificates are now available on the WHO web site (Estonian, German, Turkish) in addition to English, French and Spanish.
The report of the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Network (EOC-NET): Consultation meeting, 19–20 November 2012, Geneva, Switzerland, is now available on the web.
To view the report, please go to the GCR landing page (www.who.int/ihr/en/) and click on the Latest Guidance tab on the horizontal bar.
