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Title: UNIndiaESA Regional Workshop on Using Space Technology for TeleEpidemiology to Benefit Asia and the


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UN/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
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United 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
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UN 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

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UN 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.

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Partnership 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

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List 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

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List 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

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List 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.

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PSA 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.

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PSA 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

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Action 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.
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Follow-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

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Follow-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

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Follow-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.

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Follow-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.

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Follow-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

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Follow-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.

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  • Back Up Charts

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Early Warning System for Infectious Diseases-
Using Space Technologies
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