THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz
Maya Plentz is the founder and chief editor of THE BRIEF, a weekly newsletter with exclusive interviews and analysis focusing on tech policy, and the global digital economy. She has over two decades of experience in the news media sector. Her work has aired at UN Radio, BBC World, RFI and Bloomberg TV.
During her tenure as a producer and presenter at Bloomberg TV in New York, she covered Google, Microsoft, and the 2000 dot-com boom. She also produced a daily segment on science, medicine, and technology.
At the UN News and Media Division in New York, she served as a broadcast producer and website news editor, conducting interviews with UN officials, government representatives, and diplomats. Her programs reached millions of viewers weekly across the globe, airing on UN national broadcast partners in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
As a member of the European Commission High-Level Group of Experts, under the leadership of Pascal Lamy, former WTO Director General and Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, she was tasked with reviewing the EU's research and innovation funding framework, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. She provided advisory on communication strategies to promote innovation funding at the EU.
THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz
Interview with Dr. Gregory Keane, Doctors Without Borders
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This coming Tuesday, 27 July, 2021 at 15:00 CET, via Zoom, the World Health Organisation is presenting a webinar with experts in mental health, to discuss innovative approaches to addressing trauma during a pandemic.
Among the panelists are Dr. Gregory Keane, Mental Health Advisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Doctors Without Borders, in France, who will speak about the interventions that MSF has deployed, as well as present challenges and uses of new technologies to address care for frontline health workers, women, and children.
Watch my interview with Dr. Keane to discuss strategies delivered by MSF in the past when he was posted in Iraq, what works and what are the challenges to onboarding people to digital healthcare platforms, the digital divide and access, how to combine face-to-face interventions with tele-health, and ensure the safety of women and children when using these tools.
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