WPRO68

October 2017
Brisbane

The 68th Session of the WPRC was held in Brisbane, Australia, from 9-13 October, 2017.

Regional Committee Page

Official docs index page for WPRC68

General information

Chair's report to the EB

Agenda

1
Opening
2
Address by the outgoing Chairperson
3
Election of new officers: Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Rapporteurs
4
Address by the incoming Chairperson
5
Adoption of the agenda
7
Address by and Report of the Regional Director
6
Address by the Director-General
8
Programme budget 2016–2017: budget performance (interim report)
9
Measles and rubella elimination
10
Protecting children from the harmful impact of food marketing
13
Transitioning to integrated financing of priority public health services
14
Regulatory strengthening and convergence for medicines and health workforce
15
Food safety
16
Progress reports on technical programmes
16.1
Health security and the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases and Public Health Emergencies
16.2
NCDs
16.3
Tobacco-free initiative
16.4
Mental health
16.5
Tuberculosis
16.6
Hepatitis
16.7
Traditional medicine
16.8
Gender and health
17
Coordination of the work of the World Health Assembly, the Executive Board and the Regional Committee
17.1
Agenda for 2018
17.2
WHO Reform
17.3
Items recommended by the WHA or EB
17.4
Geographically dispersed specialized offices in the Region
18
Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction: Membership of the Policy and Coordination Committee
19
Time and place of the sixty-ninth and seventieth sessions of the Regional Committee
20
Closure of the session