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  • World Health Assembly, day 4: support for WHO reform
    25-05-2012
    On day four of the World Health Assembly, countries discussed and expressed broad support for proposals to reform WHO in three areas: programmes and priority setting, governance and management.
  • World Health Assembly, day 3: WHO Director-General reappointed
    24-05-2012
    The Health Assembly yesterday appointed Dr Margaret Chan to a second five-year term as Director-General. In her acceptance speech to health ministers and representatives of WHO’s Member States, Dr Chan pledged continued commitment to improving the health of the most vulnerable.
  • World Health Assembly, day 2: resolution on noncommunicable diseases approved
    24-05-2012
    A resolution on strengthening noncommunicable disease policies to promote active ageing was approved by countries on the second day of WHO’s global annual meeting.
  • Standing Committee: “Good progress in preparations for RC62”
    23-05-2012
    The Nineteenth Standing Committee of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (SCRC) held its fourth session at WHO headquarters in Geneva on 19 and 20 May 2012.
  • First day of World Health Assembly focuses on universal health-care coverage
    22-05-2012
    The Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly, WHO’s annual global meeting of ministers and senior health officials, opened yesterday. In her opening address, Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, emphasized the importance of universal coverage.
  • Forum finalizes Health 2020 policy framework
    23-04-2012
    The third meeting of the European Health Policy Forum of High-level Government Officials took place in Brussels, Belgium on 19–20 April 2012. The Forum advised WHO/Europe on the final shape of the Health 2020 policy framework and three other key documents that will be submitted to the WHO Regional Committee for Europe in September 2012.
  • Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, nominated for second term
    19-01-2012
    Yesterday, WHO’s Executive Board nominated Dr Chan for a second term as Director-General. The nomination will be submitted for approval to the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly.
  • Key WHO/Europe events in 2012
    06-01-2012
    Building on the momentum of resolutions and collaborative work in previous years, WHO/Europe plans many activities and events in 2012.
  • Regional Committee: 15 September 2011
    15-09-2011
    The final day of this year’s session of the Regional Committee for Europe was marked by the adoption of five action plans on addressing noncommunicable diseases, alcohol, HIV/AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis and antibiotic resistance.
  • Europe fights back: WHO’s new action plan tackles antibiotic resistance
    15-09-2011
    Today, in Baku, Azerbaijan, at the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, 53 countries will discuss adopting a new European strategic action plan on antibiotic resistance. Developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe following extensive consultation with experts and policy-makers and based on the latest research, the action plan builds on the momentum created by World Health Day 2011, with its slogan of “No action today, no cure tomorrow”.
  • Regional Committee: 14 September 2011
    14-09-2011
    Today, countries expressed their support for WHO reform and discussed how to advance this process. An action plan to tackle noncommunicable diseases was also on the agenda.
  • Regional Committee: 13 September 2011
    13-09-2011
    The development of Health 2020, and how to strengthen health systems dominated discussions today. In her address, the WHO Director-General underlined WHO’s continuing relevance as “a global health guardian, a protector and defender of health, including the right to health.”
  • Regional Committee: 12 September 2011
    12-09-2011
    Following an introduction by Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, to the country’s health reforms, Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, detailed recent achievements and remaining health challenges facing the Region. Discussion focused on how to develop the new European health policy, Health 2020.
  • Regional Committee opens in Azerbaijan
    11-09-2011
    Ministers and representatives from the 53 countries in the WHO European Region are in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12-15 September 2010 for the sixty-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe.
  • European ambassadors briefed on Regional Committee’s ambitious agenda
    01-09-2011
    Ms Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, briefed European ambassadors to Denmark on Tuesday this week on the ambitious agenda for the sixty-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe.
  • Invitation to press to attend 61st session of the Regional Committee for Europe
    23-08-2011
    The sixty-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, WHO’s governing body for the Region, will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan on 12–15 September 2011. Health ministers and high-level policy-makers from the 53 Member States in the Region, from Iceland and Ireland to Israel and Uzbekistan, will be joined by representatives of partner organizations and civil society. This is a unique opportunity to meet the European health community as it makes decisions, and to report from a country that very few journalists cover.
  • Documents now available for the sixty-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, Baku, Azerbaijan, 12–15 September 2011
    08-08-2011
    The official documentation of the session is available in English, French, German and Russian on this site as soon as it becomes available or, at the latest, from the first week of August.
  • 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Charter: request for memories
    26-07-2011
    The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, adopted in 1986, changed the perception of public health issues. WHO/Europe has established a discussion forum for the sharing of materials and memories, and welcomes your contributions.
  • World Health Assembly closes with European priorities on action agenda
    25-05-2011
    The Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly closed on Tuesday, after working for 8 days through a broad agenda that yielded 28 resolutions on global health matters, many of which have high priority in the European Region.
  • World Health Assembly: Delegates discuss noncommunicable diseases, WHO finances, pandemic influenza preparedness
    24-05-2011
    During the third and fourth days of the World Health Assembly (18–19 May), Member States discussed a range of issues, including noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), the programme budget and the future of financing for WHO, health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, pandemic influenza preparedness and the promotion of women’s and children’s health.
  • Day 2 of World Health Assembly: International Health Regulations and WHO reform in focus
    18-05-2011
    Countries agreed that the International Health Regulations have been valuable and effective so far, and many pledged strong support for the Director-General’s proposal to reform WHO, at the World Health Assembly yesterday.
  • Opening of World Health Assembly: Director-General urges ministers to “remember the people”
    17-05-2011
    The Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly, WHO’s global annual meeting for ministers and senior health officials, opened yesterday.
  • Agenda set for next Regional Committee
    17-05-2011
    The Eighteenth Standing Committee of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, meeting on 14–15 May 2011, discussed arrangements for the next annual meeting of WHO Member States in the European Region, to take place in Baku, Azerbaijan in September.
  • Next Standing Committee meeting open to all Member States
    11-05-2011
    The Eighteenth Standing Committee of the Regional Committee (SCRC) will hold its fourth session at WHO headquarters on 14–15 May 2011. All Member States in the WHO European Region have been invited to attend as observers.
  • WHO/Europe’s Standing Committee gives green light to agenda for next annual meeting
    01-04-2011
    WHO/Europe’s Standing Committee gives green light to agenda for next annual meeting. The eighteenth Standing Committee of the Regional Committee (SCRC), WHO/Europe’s advisory board between its annual meetings of Member States, held its third session on 30–31 March 2011 to prepare for the next annual meeting.
  • Regional Director on official visit to Azerbaijan
    02-03-2011
    Ms Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe has been in Azerbaijan this week to discuss cooperation with the Ministry of Health, and develop plans for the annual meeting of WHO/Europe’s governing body, to be held in the country in September 2011.
  • Azerbaijan to host WHO European governing body meeting
    01-03-2011
    Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, is in Baku for an official visit to Azerbaijan to reinforce commitments and facilitate preparations for the annual session of WHO’s Regional Committee for Europe, which will take place in Baku on 12–15 September 2011.
  • Developing strategy on antibacterial resistance
    18-11-2010
    The Standing Committee of the Regional Committee, part of WHO/Europe’s governing body, has approved a concept paper on WHO/Europe’s developing a strategy to contain antibacterial resistance . This is an important step to tackle a growing health threat in the WHO European Region.
  • Standing Committee of the Regional Committee meets in Andorra
    18-11-2010
    On 18–19 November 2010, the Eighteenth Standing Committee holds its second meeting, hosted by Andorra. 
  • Regional Committee: 16 September 2010
    17-09-2010
    The goal of eliminating measles and rubella in the WHO European Region by 2015 and this year’s session report were both approved on the final day of WHO/Europe’s annual meeting.
  • Regional Committee: 15 September 2010
    15-09-2010
    The health situation in Pakistan following catastrophic flooding, WHO funding, and the polio outbreak in the European Region were on the agenda on the third day of WHO/Europe’s annual meeting.
  • Regional Committee: 14 September 2010
    14-09-2010
    WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan called for public health to be “smart, strategic and resourceful” during her address, and three ministerial panels discussed developing and implementing health-related policies on the second day of WHO/Europe’s annual meeting.
  • Regional Committee: 13 September 2010
    13-09-2010
    Support for a new European health policy, an address by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and commitment to closer collaboration with the European Commission were highlights on the first day of WHO/Europe’s annual conference.
  • WHO and European Commission adopt joint declaration
    13-09-2010
    The WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Commission adopted a joint declaration today, seeking to strengthen policy dialogue and technical cooperation on public health.
  • WHO Regional Committee for Europe opens
    13-09-2010
    Ministers and representatives from the 53 countries in the European Region meet in Moscow, Russian Federation for the sixtieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe.
  • Addendum: EUR/RC60/12 Add. 1 Partnerships for health in the European Region (Working document)
    11-09-2010
    Annex 2 to document EUR/RC60/12, entitled “European Commission and WHO Regional Office for Europe: A shared vision for joint action” was developed jointly by the WHO Secretariat and the European Commission.
  • Revised: EUR/RC60/Conf.Doc./6 Partnerships for health in the WHO European Region (Conference document)
    11-09-2010
    Partnerships for health in the WHO European Region
  • WHO Regional Committee for Europe to convene in Moscow
    10-09-2010
    Health ministers and decision-makers from 53 countries will lay ground for a new pan-European health policy.
  • Russian Federation: no remaining health risks from extreme heat-wave and wildfires
    03-09-2010
    The exceptional situation of a severe heat-wave and air pollution due to wildfires in many regions of the Russian Federation has been declared over.
  • Information for participants
    29-06-2010
    Participant guide, hotel, visa information etc.
  • The session on elections and nominations to WHO bodies and committees
    29-06-2010
    The session on elections and nominations to WHO bodies and committees will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday, 15 September 2010.
  • Preparations on track for WHO/Europe’s annual meeting
    15-06-2010
    The Seventeenth Standing Committee of the Regional Committee held its fifth session on 14–15 June 2010, to prepare for the sixtieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, taking place in September 2010.
  • Resolutions adopted by WHO Regional Committee
    21-09-2009
    The fifty-ninth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe has closed. Resolutions were adopted on the nomination of the next Regional Director for Europe, health in times of global economic crisis, health workforce policies and implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005).
  • New WHO Regional Director for Europe nominated
    15-09-2009
    Zsuzsanna Jakab, a national of Hungary, has been nominated as the next WHO Regional Director for Europe. Mrs Jakab is currently Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. She will take up her new role when Dr Marc Danzon’s tenure as Regional Director ends in January 2010. The nomination is subject to confirmation by the WHO Executive Board.
  • WHO Regional Committee for Europe meets this week
    14-09-2009
    The Regional Committee holds its fifty-ninth annual session in Copenhagen, Denmark on 14–17 September. Health ministers and officials from the 53 Member States in the WHO European Region will discuss issues including pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and the economic crisis. They will also nominate a new WHO Regional Director for Europe.