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Chikwe Ihekweazu

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control - Ihekweazu is the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and, until January 2018, the Acting Director of the Regional Centre for Disease Control for West Africa. He trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has over 20 years’ experience working in senior public health and leadership positions in several National Public Health Institutes, including the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases, the UK’s Health Protection Agency, and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute. He has led several short-term engagements for WHO, mainly in response to major infectious disease outbreaks around the world. He was part of the first WHO COVID-19 international mission to China, in February 2020.

Policy Briefs

G20 Italy 2021

One health-based conceptual frameworks for comprehensive and coordinated prevention

TF1 - Global Health and COVID-19
Policy area: Global Health and Covid-19
Umberto Agrimi (Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Mario Carere (Environment and Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Francesco Cubadda (Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Osman A Dar (Public Health England), Silvia Declich (National Center for Global Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Maria Grazia Dente (National Center for Global Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Mirko Farina (Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Innopolis University), Chikwe Ihekweazu (Nigeria Centre for Disease Control), Andrea Lavazza (Centro Universitario Internazionale), Laura Mancini (Environment and Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Alberto Mantovani (Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Stefania Marcheggiani (Environment and Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Alessia Milano (National Center for Global Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Monica Monaco (Infectious Diseases Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Stefano Morabito (Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Flavia Riccardo (Infectious Diseases Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Claudia Robbiati (National Center for Global Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Gaia Scavia (Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Laura Villa (Infectious Diseases Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Matteo Villa (Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale (ISPI))

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