Civil-Military collaboration for health emergency preparedness
This project is situated in the road framework of WHO’s commitments to strengthen multisectorial health emergency preparedness by engaging non-traditional health stakeholdrs, such as civil-military stakeholders. The goal is civil-military collaboration, not in the sense of collaborations during crises, but aiming at civil-military health collaborations for capacity building for health strengthen the country’s health emergency preparedness.
The first contacts between WHO and ICMM concerning civil-military health collaboration have been established in 2017 in Jakarta. In the “Jakarta Call for Action” several appeals were launched: Don’t wait for a crisis to collaborate: build trust between the sectors before emergencies strike; define roles and responsabilities through national action plans for health security; plan, schedule joint preparedness exercices & trainings.
During the ICMM Extraordinary General Assembly of 2021, Mr Ludy Suryantoro, Head of Unit Multisectoral Engagement for Health security of the WHO, presented WHO civil-military health collaboration framework. The aim is to achieve cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination between public health stakeholdres and military actors.

Useful documents that provide further insight info into this matter are:

The WHO guidance document ont national civil-military health collaboration 9789240030343-eng.pdf (who.int) a Chatham House expert comment, written by LtGen (ret.) Louis Lilywhite, in relation to the WHO guidance document in which he describes the new roles for the military in that domain New roles for military in health emergency preparedness – Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank.

New roles for military in health emergency preparedness – Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank