Pandemics, epidemics, and the most frequent outbreaks in places of detention: “how can readiness be improved”?

ICPA 2022 Annual Conference Presentation by Elena Leclerc (ICPA2022-PID152)

Author

Elena Leclerc

Programme Coordinator, Health care in Detention, Health Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Dr Elena Leclerc is the coordinator of Health Care in Detention Programme at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, and responsible for the implementation of the Programme in over 60 countries around the world.
Dr Leclerc joined the ICRC in 1998 and has since worked in Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Haiti, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, Cambodia, Thailand and at the ICRC’s headquarters in Switzerland. She has authored and contributed to the development of various ICRC and external publications. Since 2013, Dr Leclerc has been co-organizing and lecturing for several postgraduate courses in Health Care in Detention in Switzerland, France and Thailand.
Dr Leclerc is a medical doctor. She holds a postgraduate degree in infectious diseases and tropical medicine from The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Leadership from the University of Lucerne.

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