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🤔 Want to know how @WHO guidance is developed?

Here’s a brief explainer and🧵⬇️:



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@WHO is an evidence-based organization.

The prevention, detection & control strategies & technical guidance that we develop are based on robust science, generated through extensive, collaborative research, & evaluated by a broad network of experts

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@WHO works with scientists, clinical and public health professionals, people affected by public health challenges, across the world

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@WHO works with many different technical disciplines from different settings, avoiding conflicts of interest. WHO bases its guidance on critical reviews all the available research.

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For new 🦠, it takes time for research to be conducted, so we draw experience from related infections, & reach out to researchers to access new data asap. Where there are gaps, we work w partners to develop research agendas for everything from epi to R&D (@rd_blueprint)

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@WHO coordinates international technical networks, which have been working together for decades on various pathogens, across a range of technical areas, from outbreaks to pandemics.

These networks are expanded & strengthened all the time.

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@WHO relies on the expertise of guideline development groups who review all of the research and develop the guidance

Guidance is not based on one study, one discipline

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@WHO works with patient and civil society groups, implementers, and others to ensure guidance is practical and meets the highest ethical standards.

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@WHO's guidance (on all topics) is reached through consensus based on existing science, benefits and harms as well as other considerations such as feasibility and acceptability, values & preferences of affected groups & cost.

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@WHO guidance development is based on:
➡️evidence generation
➡️evidence synthesis & critical appraisal
➡️recommendation writing
We continue to review new evidence & update guidance as necessary

This is @WHO

@DrTedros @DrMikeRyan @SCBriand @doctorsoumya @diazjv

Thanks @mrigankshail for this video summarizing “how we science”

Science is a process

Its been an incredible & heartbreaking year for #Science #Solutions #Solidarity

Hang in there, we will get through this

@DrTedros @DrMikeRyan @doctorsoumya @SCBriand @gabbystern

@WHO Leads in Using Solid Science to Draft #COVID19 Policy: Study

the-scientist.com/news-opinion/w…

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Another helpful & descriptive ppt by @WHO #EpiWin on how we develop guidance

1000s of scientists work w WHO to review,assess&synthesise data, write recs (did you know that WHO doesn’t write recs?) & update regularly

@DrMikeRyan @GroveJohn @doctorsoumya

tinyurl.com/xx7pz2su