WHO Watch at 136th Executive Board Meeting

Posted Tue, 2015-01-13 11:42

The 136th Session of the Executive Board of WHO will meet in Geneva from 26 Jan to 3 Feb 2015. See the Official Page. PHM will be at the EB through its initiative, WHO Watch. To know more about WHO Watch follow the link here.

PHM’s materials (below) build on documents developed through an extended network of experts associated with PHM. Statements delivered to the EB and item reports after the debate are prepared by the watching team which, for EB136 in January 2015, included: Salome Adam, Susana Barria, Susanna Bolchini, Katrien De Troeyer, Alice Fabbri, Mariana Martins, Ornella Punzo and Belinda Townsend.

Reports of Discussions

Outcome of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (agenda item 6.1): here
Substandard/spurious/falsely labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products (agenda item 10.3): here

Video Interviews with Watchers

Video interviews include:

Outcome of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (Alice Fabbri, PHM-Italia): here;
Substandard/spurious/falsely labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products (Belinda Townsend, PHM-Australia): here;
Strengthening emergency and essential surgical care and anaesthesia as a component of universal health coverage (Susanna Bolchini, PHM-Italia): here;
Malaria: draft global technical strategy: post 2015 (Salome Adam, PHM-Germany): here;
Women and health: 20 years of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Katrien De Troeyer, PHM-Belgium): here.

Statements

Special Session on Ebola Emergency: Current context and challenges; stopping the epidemic; and preparedness in non-affected countries and regions (agenda item 3.1): here.
Framework of engagement with non-State actors (agenda item 5.1): here.
Follow-up to the 2014 high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to undertake a comprehensive review and assessment of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (agenda item 6.4): here.
Health and the environment - Climate and health: outcome of the WHO Conference on Health and Climate (agenda item 7.2B): here.
Antimicrobial resistance (agenda item 8.1): here.
Malaria: draft global technical strategy: post 2015 (agenda item 9.1): here.
Global vaccine action plan (agenda item 9.3): here.
Strengthening emergency and essential surgical care and anaesthesia as a component of universal health coverage (agenda item 10.1): here.
WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (agenda item 10.2): here.
Substandard/spurious/falsely labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products (agenda item 10.3): here.
Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (agenda item 10.4): here.
Global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property (agenda item 10.5): here.

Commentaries

PDF version of PHM detailed Commentary (as of 20 Jan, 2015) downloadable here.
PDF version of PHM's short commentary (as of 24 Jan, 2015) downloadable here.

Comentarios en español

Reunión extraordinaria EBSS3 sobre la emergencia del Ébola (EBSS3): aqui
Seguimiento de la reunión de alto nivel de 2014 de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas para llevar a cabo un examen y una evaluación generales de los progresos realizados en la prevención y el control de las enfermedades no transmisibles (6.4): aqui
Salud y medio ambiente: impacto sanitario de la contaminación del aire (7.2A): aqui
Salud del adolescente (7.3): aqui
Aplicación del Reglamento Sanitario Internacional (2005) (8.3): aqui
Fortalecimiento de la atención quirúrgica esencial y de emergencia, y de la anestesia, como componentes de la cobertura sanitaria universal (10.1): aqui
Estrategia mundial y plan de acción sobre salud pública, innovación y propiedad intelectual (10.5): aqui

Annotated agenda and PHM Comments

Special Session on Ebola Emergency

The DG has convened a special session of the EB focusing on Ebola to be held on Sunday 25th January, before the planned EB136 session.

See Official documentation page. See Provisional agenda (annotated).

See PHM comment (EBSS3) page. Ver PHM comentario (EBSS3) en español.

See MMI-PHM Statement on item 3.1 Current context and challenges; stopping the epidemic; and preparedness in non-affected countries and regions.

136th meeting of the WHO Executive Board

1. Opening of the session and adoption of the agenda (EB136/1, EB136/1 Annotated)
2. Report by the Director-General (EB136/2)
3. Report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board (EB136/3)
4. Report of the regional committees to the Executive Board (EB136/4, PHM note)
5. WHO reform

5.1 Framework of engagement with non-State actors (EB136/5, PHM note, MMI-PHM Statement)
5.2 Method of work of the governing bodies (EB136/6, PHM note)
5.3 Overview of reform implementation and Ebola response (EB136/7, PHM note, MMI-PHM statement)

6. Noncommunicable diseases

6.1 Outcome of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (EB136/8, PHM note, MMI-PHM Statement, video interview)

6.2 Maternal, infant and young child nutrition: development of the core set of indicators (EB136/9, PHM note)

6.3 Update on the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (EB136/10, PHM note)

6.4 Follow-up to the 2014 high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to undertake a comprehensive review and assessment of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (EB136/11, EB136/11 Add.1, PHM comentario, MMI-PHM Statement).

6.5 Global status report on violence and health (EB136/12, EB136/12 Corr.1, PHM note)

6.6 Global burden of epilepsy and the need for coordinated action at the country level to address its health, social and public knowledge implications (EB136/13, PHM note)

7. Promoting health through the life course

7.1 Monitoring of the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (EB136/14, PHM note)

7.2 Health and the environment
• Addressing the health impact of air pollution (EB136/15, PHM note)

• Climate and health: outcome of the WHO Conference on Health and Climate (EB136/16, PHM note, MMI-PHM Statement)

7.3 Adolescent health (EB136/17, PHM note)

7.4 Women and health: 20 years of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (EB136/18, PHM note, video interview)

8. Preparedness, surveillance and response

8.1 Antimicrobial resistance (EB136/19, EB136/20, PHM note, MMI-PHM statement)

8.2 Poliomyelitis (EB136/21, PHM note)

8.3 Implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005) (EB136/22, EB136/22 Add.1, PHM comentario)

9. Communicable diseases

9.1 Malaria: draft global technical strategy: post 2015 (EB136/23, PHM notes, MMI-PHM Statement, video interview)

9.2 Dengue: prevention and control (EB136/24, PHM notes)

9.3 Global vaccine action plan (EB136/25, PHM note, MMI-PHM Statement)

9.4 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak (EB136/26, EB136/49, PHM note)

10. Health systems

10.1 Strengthening emergency and essential surgical care and anaesthesia as a component of universal health coverage (EB136/27, PHM comentario, PHM note, MMI-PHM Statement, video interview)

10.2 WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (EB136/28, PHM note, MMI-PHM Statement)

10.3 Substandard/spurious/falsely labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products (EB136/29, PHM note, PHM-MMI Statement, video interview)

10.4 Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (EB136/30, PHM note, PHM-MMI Statement)

10.5 Global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property (EB136/31, PHM note, PHM-MMI Statement)

10.6 Blood and other medical products of human origin (EB136/32, PHM note)

11. Programme and budget matters

11.1 Implementation and financing of Programme budget 2014–2015: update (EB136/33, PHM note)

11.2 Proposed programme budget 2016–2017 (EB136/34, PHM note)

11.3 Strategic budget space allocation (EB136/35, PHM note)

12. Financial matters

12.1 Draft financial strategy for WHO (EB136/36, PHM notes)

12.2 Scale of assessments for 2016–2017 (EB136/37, PHM notes)

13. Management and governance matters

13.1 Evaluation (EB136/38, PHM notes)

13.2 Real estate: update on the Geneva buildings renovation strategy (EB136/39)
13.4 Reports of committees of the Executive Board
• Standing Committee on Nongovernmental Organizations (EB136/40, PHM notes)

• Foundations and awards (EB136/41)
13.5 Provisional agenda of the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly and date, place and draft provisional agenda of the 137th session of the Executive Board (EB136/42)

14. Staffing matters

14.1 Appointment of the Regional Director for Africa (EB136/43)

14.2 Appointment of the Regional Director for Europe (EB136/44)

14.3 Statement by the representative of the WHO staff associations (EB136/INF./1)
14.4 Human resources: update (EB136/45, PHM note)

14.5 Report of the International Civil Service Commission (EB136/46)
14.6 Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules (EB136/47)

15. Matters for information

15.1 Reports of advisory bodies
• Expert committees and study groups (EB136/48 and EB136/48 Add.1)

16. Closure of the session

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