PAHO

In July 2009, Robert served as facilitator and rapporteur of the Inter-agency Meeting on Strategic Communication for Pandemic Influenza in the Americas, hosted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Organized soon after the outbreak of the H1N1 influenza pandemic in Mexico and the United States, it was the fifth in a series of meetings of a regional UN system communication task force convened in 2006. Task Force members reviewed and updated the 2006 Inter-Agency Communication Framework for Avian/Human Pandemic Influenza in the Americas and agreed on lessons learned in order to strengthen the response to the first pandemic of the 21st century on the part of UN agencies, governments, NGOs and the media.