Title: UNIndiaESA Regional Workshop on Using Space Technology for TeleEpidemiology to Benefit Asia and the
1UN/India/ESA Regional Workshop on Using Space
Technology for Tele-Epidemiology to Benefit Asia
and the Pacific RegionLucknow, India, 20-23
October 2008
UN Programme on Space Applications and Its
Activities on Tele-health
Alice Lee The UN Expert on Space Applications,
and Chief of Space Applications Section Office
for Outer Space Affairs United Nations
2United Nations Programme on Space Applications
(PSA)
Cross Cutting Activities
UN Millennium Declaration
(WSSD) World Summit on Sustainable Development
Knowledge Based Space Sciences (Based Space
Science) (Space Law)
WSIS (World Summit on Info. Society)
(WCDR) World Conference on Disaster Reduction
Space Technology Sustainable Applications Disaste
r management Natural Resources Management
Environmental Monitoring Tele-health,
Tele-education
Enabling Space Technologies Remote Sensing,
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS),
Communications, Earth Observation
Meteorological Satellites Small Satellites
OOSA PSA
UNISPACE III5
Plan of Action
3UN Programme on Space Applications (PSA)Activity
Summary
- PSA activities are in four main categories
- Capacity-building, training, and education in
developing countries - Disseminating and increasing the awareness of
knowledge-based themes - Providing technical advisory services and
promoting regional cooperation - Promoting the use of and access to space-based
technology information
4UN Programme on Space Applications
(PSA)Activities on Tele-health since 2004
- The UN Expert on Space Applications initiated
activities on tele-health since her inauguration
in 2004 - Activities cover three regions Africa, Asia and
the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean - Activities fall into the 4 categories include
partnership alliance, workshops, training
courses, expert meetings, symposia, publication,
and projects.
5Partnership Activities
PSA Entered Alliance Partnership with the
International Society for Telemedicine and
e-Health (ISfTeH), October 2004. Organized
following activities
- Space-Based Technology Applications to e-Health
Session at the Educational Information Program
of the Med-e-Tel 2005, April 2005, Luxembourg - Poster session exhibits Project Initiatives in
Latin America and the Caribbean, Med-e-Tel 2006,
April 2006, Luxembourg - Session Space Technology Applications for
Telemedicine in Isolated and Remote Areas,
Med-e-Tel 2006, April 2006, Luxembourg - UNOOSA/WHO Panel on TeleHealth Implementation
Approaches For Africa, 11th ISfTeH Conference,
26-29 November 2006, Cape Town, South Africa - Provided fellowship to participants of developing
countries to the 12th ISfTeH Conference, November
2007, India
6List of Workshop, Training Course, Expert
Meeting, and Symposia 2005-06
- UN/Argentina Training Course on Applications of
Space Information and Technology to Health
Issues, Gulich Institute of Advanced Space
Studies, Tabanera Space Center, Córdoba,
Argentina, 19-23 September 2005 - UN/ESCAP/China Workshop on Tele-Health
Development in Asia and the Pacific Region,
Guangzhou, China, 5-9 December 2005 - A session at the UN/Zambia/ESA Regional Workshop
on the Application of Global Navigation Satellite
System (GNSS) Technologies for Sub-Saharan
Africa. Lusaka, Zambia 26-30 June 2006 - Expert Meeting for the UN/India/USA Pilot Project
Telemedicine in the Reconstruction of
Afghanistan, Cochin, India, 29-31 August 2006
7List of Workshop, Training Course, Expert
Meeting, and Symposia Since 2007-08
- UN/Mexico Training Course on Satellite Technology
for Tele-health - Follow up to the Argentina 2005
Telehealth Workshop,Mexico City, Mexico 25-29
June 2007 - Regional Expert Meeting on Using Space Technology
for Infectious Disease Including Avian Influenza
Monitoring and Early Warning in Asia, Bangkok,
1-3 August 2007 - UN/Russia/ESA Workshop on the Use of
Microsatellite Technologies for Monitoring
Environmental and Its Impact on Human Health,
Tarusa, Russia 3-7 September 2007 - UN/WHO/Burkina Faso/ESA/CNES Workshop on Using
Space Technologies for Tele-health to Benefit
Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 5-9 May 2008
8List of Workshop, Training Course, Expert
Meeting, and Symposia Since 2007-08 (contd)
- A session at the UN/Colombia/USA Workshop on the
Applications of GNSS, Medellin, Colombia, 25-29
June 2008 - A session at the UN/Indonesia Regional Workshop
on Integrated Space Technology Applications to
Water Resources Management, Environmental
Protection and Disaster Vulnerability Mitigation,
Jakarta, 7-11 July 2008 - UN/India/ESA Regional Workshop on Using Space
Technology for Tele-Epidemiology to Benefit Asia
and the Pacific Region, Lucknow, India 20-23
October 2008 - Two sessions at the XIII SELPER (Latin American
Society in Remote Sensing and Spatial
Information Systems) Symposium, 22-26 September
2008, Havana, Cuba.
9PSA Fellowship Programme -1
UN/Argentina Fellowship Programme on Advanced
School for Training in Landscape Epidemiology
- Offered by Argentina National Space Activities
Commission (CONAE) - 6 weeks training annually in the Mario Gulich
Institute of Advanced Space Studies, Cordova,
Argentina - It is a follow up to the 2005 Workshop on
tele-health in Argentina, and in support of the
Action Team 6- Improving Public Health Services,
of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space. - The first class was held in June 2007. The second
class will be held in October 2008.
10PSA Fellowship Programme - 2
United Nations/Africa Fellowship on
Tele-medicine for Africa Region
- Offered by the Department of Tele-health in
Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University
of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Short term basic telemedicine training to 40 to
80 physicians in Africa each year, and plans to
cover 2-4 countries annually - Support the goals of the Action Team 6 for Africa
- Teaching materials will be in format of PPT
charts and DVD, to be disseminated to trainee
institutes free of charge - The first training course is planned to be held
in November, to Rwanda
11Action Team 6- Improving Public Health
Action Team 6 began active in 2006 Co-chair
Canadian Space Agency and WHO Goal was defined
in February 2007
Goal of AT6 Using space technologies to provide
a demonstration of a monitoring and early warning
mechanism for infectious diseases including avian
flu and water-borne diseases.
12Follow-up Achievement and ProjectsLatin America
and the Caribbean Region
- Task Force on Health Using Space Technologies for
Latin America and the Caribbean Region - Was established in September 2005 by participants
of the UN workshop in Argentina - Now has more than 30 experts participating in the
region. - Gulich Institute of CONAE is the driving force of
the Task Force and established a training
fellowship in 2007 to benefit the region - Major activities of the Task Force include
- Held tele-health sessions in conjunction with XII
SELPER, XIII SELPER, and the 5th Conference of
Space in America - Publication Space Technology for E-health
Space technology based tele-Health projects
initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean,
UN V07-87832, November 2007 - Members of the TF and the participants in the
Fellowship Programme initiated 15 regional
projects. Presented the project concepts to the
Med-e-Tel exhibition 2006. - Provide assistance to the COPUOS Action Team 6
13Follow-up Achievement and ProjectsLatin America
and the Caribbean Region (contd)
- List of Projects in Latin American and the
Caribbean - Spatial-temporal evaluation of epidemiological
patterns of Dengue outbreak in Santa Cruz de la
Sierra Bolivia - Landscape characterization of Triatomas, vector
of Chagas, using remote sensing in the V Region
Chile - An analysis of potential Triatoma infestans
re-infestation in Ybycui district using remote
sensing Paraguay - Environmental risk factors identification of
malaria between 2002 and 2006 in Colombia using
remote sensing - Malaria and the spatial-temporal relation with a
lake in Paraguay between 2002 and 2006 - Characterization of habitats of Phlebotominae in
northwestern Argentina using remote sensing - Geographic distribution and incidence of
Leishmaniasis Tegumentaria in Venezuela and the
relation with environmental factors estimated by
remote sensing period 1999 2006 - Analysis of Malaria using geoestadistic and
remote sensing in high risk areas in Loreto, Peru - Spatial-temporal diffusion of Hepatitis B in the
oriental equator
14Follow-up Achievement and ProjectsAsia and the
Pacific Region
- Working Group on project Using Space Technology
for Infectious Disease Including Avian Influenza
Monitoring and Early Warning in Asia - It is a follow up to the Workshop in china in
2005 and the Expert Meeting in Bangkok in 2007 - Co-chaired by the China Center for Resources
Satellite Data and Application (CRESDA), and
representatives of the Philippines - Status of the project reported at the Workshop in
India, October 2008. - It is part of the activities of the Action Team
6. - Document A Specification Assessment for
Communication System Network Configurations for
Different Applications of tele-health - prepared by the China National Space
Administration, Sept 2006 - Disseminated to requesters free of charge.
15Follow-up Achievement and ProjectsAsia and the
Pacific Region (contd)
- Pilot Project Telemedicine in the Reconstruction
of Afghanistan - Cooperation among UN, Afghanistan, India, and USA
- Afghanistan established a national Task Force on
Telemedicine in June 2006. The Afghan
Consultative Group for Health and Nutrition was
its main driving force. - Project completed in 2006. Disseminated with an
Expert Meeting in Cochin, India in August 2006. - Training China, India, and Pakistan provides
training on tele-health regularly. - Needs Assessment and follow up activities
- Afghanistan, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal
performed the assessment and made significant
steps toward implementing national tele-health
program.
16Follow-up Achievement and ProjectsAfrica Region
- A session entitled GNSS implementation and uses
in tele-health and landscape epidemiology, was
presented in the Workshop held in Zambia in 2006,
included - Cameroon Geographic Information System and
public health diseases - Ghana/ Zimbabwe Modelling the spatial
distribution of the anopheles mosquito for
malaria risk zoning using RS/GIS - Senegal Monitoring climatic and environmental
conditions of Dengue-2 virus emergency in the
Kedougou area using Earth Observation data and
GIS - South Africa Telemedicine and eHealth experience
- Uganda Application of Spatial decision support
tools in prioritizing areas of sleeping sickness
and Nagana control in Uganda - Zambia issues on protocols/guidelines for
tele-health implementation
17Follow-up Achievement and ProjectsAfrica Region
- The workshop held in Burkina Faso on ele-ehalth
in May 2008 group discussion sessions resulted
in 11 action items in the categories of - space data and health data (both animal and human
health) gathering and sharing - establish national strategy, policy, plan of
action, legal framework, and budget allocation
for TeleHealth - conduct needs assessment
- training and capacity building eLearning web
sites, fellowship - practice telemedicine in a simplest approach.
- Fellowship Program
- Offered by the Department of Tele-health in
Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University
of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Developing videoconference surgical seminar
programmes for postgraduate surgical training to
the members of the College of Surgeons of East,
Central, and Southern Africa (COSECSA) - Developing teaching material of basic
telemedicine training for developing countries,
in the forms of ppt charts and DVD.
18 19Early Warning System for Infectious Diseases-
Using Space Technologies
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