Mass gatherings medicine and global health security

Abdullah Al Rabeeah; Ziad A. Memish; Alimuddin Zumla; Shuja Shafi; Brian McCloskey; Ahmad Moolla; Maurizio Barbeschi; David Heymann; Richard Horton

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60992-1

Mass gatherings medicine and global health security

Abdullah Al Rabeeah^*, Ziad A. Memish, Alimuddin Zumla, Shuja Shafi, Brian McCloskey, Ahmad Moolla, Maurizio Barbeschi, David Heymann, Richard Horton

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-4
Number of pages	2
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	380
Issue number	9836
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60992-1
Publication status	Published - Jul 2012

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Saudi Arabia's Government has accumulated a wealth of knowledge about the management of risks to health during mass gatherings through decades of planning for the Hajj. At the 2010 Global Forum on Mass Gathering Medicine, hosted by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health and held jointly with The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the Jeddah declaration was adopted, which outlined proposals for the formalisation and establishment of a new discipline of mass gatherings medicine (MGM). 1,5 The declaration outlined steps to achieve internationally coordinated goals, credentialling standards, education programmes, formal support for academic study and research, distinguished practitioner awards, and the need for a reference authority based in Saudi Arabia. The Jeddah declaration was supported by the 35th meeting of the Arab League health ministers in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 9–10, 2011, and by WHO's meeting of regional health ministers on Oct 2–5, 2011, in Cairo, Egypt.

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