Dear Ela,

Please find attached requested bios.

Dear Natalia and Dear Professor Gamkrelidze,

Thank you for the details.  They will indeed be very helpful in arrangements. I do note there are 5 bios. Should I assume the other two participants pulled out, please?

With thanks

Thank you, dear Professor Amiran,

For the List of the aspects of interest and CVs and short bio-s. 

It will definitely help the Study Tour organizers to arrange the programme for you according to your expectations.

I will communicate this with the Imperial college, who will host the Study tour.  

Dear Natalia, 

Meanwhile, here are some aspects I hope to learn from the visit:

• Organization of public health system of England, linkage with hospitals and primary healthcare. Centralized vs. decentralized systems;
• Organization of public health services and governance;
• Investment in staff capacity; As Imperial College, London is WHO collaborative center for Public Health Education and Training, It will also be interesting for us to understand the approach and strategies used for workforce development.
• Working with partners;
• Research agenda, and translational research.  We do understand that in this timeframe it will not be possible to learn and see everything, but as we have read the College's one of the significant unit is the Global eHealth Unit, which is a research hub  for innovations and entrepreneurship in health care and if there will be time left we would appreciate to understand the work of this unit. 

NCDC in frame of twining programme has a collaboration with Public Health England, as well as BMJ and if the time will allow could be arranged the meeting with appropriate contact persons.

For Twining project contact persons are:

Prof. Duarte - Davidson, Raquel 

Address:Centre for Radiation Chemical and Environmetal Hazards (CRCE), Public Health England, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 ORQ

Telephone  Land LINE: +441235825275; Mobile: +447770567851;  +44 (0) 7798570724

e-mail Raquel.duarte-davidson@phe.gov.uk 

Prof. Leonardi Giovanni

Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 ORQ United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)1235825024 work; Mobile: +4479207653389;  

e-mail giovanni.leonardi@phe.gov.uk

For BMJ:

Elisa Roma, PhD

Regional Development Manager 

Global Health & Health Security

BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR
T: +44 (0)20 7383 6916

M:+44 (0) 7388 708029

E: eroma@bmj.com

For the general information please find attached our  short bio’s.

From our side, we will be ready to share our experience and work as well.  

Hope we will have a productive tour. 

With best regards

Amiran

Amiran Gamkrelidze, MD, PhD, Professor

National Center for Disease Control and Public Health

Director General

Tbilisi 0186, 9 M.Asatiani Str.

Phone/Fax: +995 32 2311755

Email: a.gamkrelidze@ncdc.ge

www.ncdc.ge

Dear Professor Amiran,

May I please kindly remind you of the Hosting Institutions’ request to provide particular interest for the programme?

The host secured a visit to a Local Authority in Ealing( part of London) and they will presented with the work of Local Authorities in the area of Public Health and the Local Authorities will be grateful if the participants could, in their turn, present their work which will then be followed with the discussion on similarities and differences.