WHO Collaborating Centre on health systems and public health

On January 7, 2014 the Federal research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics has been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre on health systems and public health.

The Collaborating Centre is designated to carry out following activities:

• To promote the implementation of the European Action Plan for Strengthening Public Health Services and Capacity by leading WHO working group on Health promotion, participating in the collaborative research, collating, disseminating and promoting application of research results in countries of WHO European Region.
• To facilitate and coordinate collaborative activities on the implementation of the European Action Plan for Strengthening Public Health Services and Capacity in the public health thematic network of Russian speaking countries.
• To support WHO efforts to strengthen public health workforce in Russian speaking countries of the European region.

In the framework of Collaborating Centre it is planned to create an international forum, which will be the main information platform for effective dialogue between stakeholders.

An important step to improve local health systems for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases and mental health disorders will be the preparation of WHO publications.

To achieve these goals it is planned to establish working groups, to coordinate activities, and to hold meetings. Based on existing experience of Russian-speaking countries and in close collaboration with WHO, models and series of measures will be created to promote European action plan to improve the health care systems.

One of the key goals is to organize capacity building workshops for medical staff, in accordance with WHO training experience, however taking into account the local features of health systems and traditions of specialists' training in this field.

It is to be recalled that the decision on the establishment of the World Health Organization was adopted in 1945, within negotiations on creation of the United Nations. WHO Constitution came into force in 1948. The organization carries out coordination within the United Nations framework. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health issues, creating of the research agenda in the field of health, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries, monitoring health situation and assessing the dynamics of its changes.

There are in total about 800 WHO collaborating centers in more than 80 countries, 19 of them are in Russia. Collaborating centers are created in university-based research institutes and academic institutions, with purpose to support the activities of the WHO.

Workplan WHO Collaborating Centre on health systems and public health, 2013-2016 (37.24 Kb)

28-29 October 2014 FRIHOI of Russian Ministry of Health, with the status of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Systems and Public Health, in collaboration with the Regional Office for Europe (EURO) of World Health Organization (WHO) held an international workshop on «Promotion of the European Action Plan on capacity-building and services public Health (ENP)».

Representatives of the Member States of the European Region of WHO, using the Russian language, as well as representatives and experts from the WHO, participated in the workshop. Also, in this workshop participated representatives of national public health of the Russian Federation, including health care institutions at federal and regional levels, as well as institutions, making policy in the field of public health, research institutes and academia.

The workshop program covered the four components. The first part was devoted to the official presentation of the new WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Systems and Public Health. The second part focused on strengthening public health in the European region, and included the presentation of the new revised self-assessment tool of public health. The third part of the program included the presentation of the self-assessment of the Russian Federation, followed by a discussion on the effects of reforms of the Russian public health. The measures to improve public health in the Russian Federation were also discussed. In the fourth part of the program representatives of the participating states shared their experiences in conducting and using the assessment of public health.

The participants of the workshop were welcomed by: Vladimir Starodubov - Director of the FRIHOI of the Russian Ministry of Health, Academy of Medical Sciences; Lola Gabbasova - Assistant to the Minister of Health of Russia; Dr. Hans Kluge - Director, Department of Health Systems and Public Health, WHO EURO, the special representative of the Regional Director on the prevention and control of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis; Dr. Luigi Migliorini - Special Representative of the Director-General of WHO in Russia.
During the presentations were designated the main areas of FRIHOI activity of Russian Ministry of Health, appointed in 2014, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Systems and Public Health. The main directions of the Center for the activities to strengthen national health systems were presented. One of the key task of the Center - assessment of the basic operational functions of national public health systems. In this regard, it is expected to assist in the exchange of experiences in capacity-building and public health services in the countries that participated in this workshop. It is planned to create an international forum, which will be the main information platform of professional dialogue among all stakeholders.

In order to implement such a dialogue the conduction of the workshops for strengthening the capacity of community health workers will be prepared.
It is expected that such workshops will be a platforms for the experience exchange between the Member States of the European Region of WHO, using the Russian language, for training , considering regional features, and the existing system of training of specialists.

Over the past five years, more than 17 countries in the European region have begun to assess the basic operational functions of national public health systems. The Russian Federation has completed this assessment in 2014.

Currently, employees FRIHOI of Russian Ministry of Health, on the basis of the expert group materials, prepared technical report «The results of self-perform basic operational functions and public health services in the Russian Federation».

Thus, the newly appointed WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Systems and Public Health has played a key role in evaluating the core operational functions of the national system of public health in Russia. In this regard, the main purpose of the work started - the exchange of experiences in capacity-building and public health services in the countries that participated in this workshop.

By the workshop completion, the following results were achieved:

1. Understanding the scope and opportunities of public health self-assessment tool to assess the basic operational functions of the national public health systems in the states-participants of the workshop;
2. A number of recommendations to improve public health in the Russian Federation and in the states-participants of the workshop were discussed;
3. An agreement on the mechanisms, ways and areas for cooperation to strengthen health care in the countries using the Russian language was reached.

The participants of the workshop expect continued practical implementation of the exchange of experiences of transforming the national public health systems to improve the quality of medical services.

• Programme (417.47 Kb)
• Report of Vladimir Starodubov (in russian) (198.05 Kb)
• Report of Hans Kluge (in russian) (523.33 Kb)
• Report of Elke Jakubowski (in russian) (1.92 Mbz)
• Report of Anna Korotkova (in russian) (481.33 Kbz)
• Report of Elena Kirsanova (in russian) (537.24 Kb)
• Report of Navruz Jafarov (in russian) (839.06 Kb)
• Report of Marina Sachek (in russian) (1.25 Mb)
• Report of Sergei Muravyev (in russian) (1.05 Mb)
• Results of WHO and Russian Federation collaboration project «Usage of the russian language in WHO documents» (in russian) (1.01 Mb)
• Self-assessment tool (in russian) (2.47 Mb)
• Report on self-assessment (in russian) (2.60 Mb)