May 2017
Geneva
Official records (WHA70/2017/REC/3)
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Agenda
1.1
Appointment of the Committee on Credentials
1.2
Election of the president
1.3
Election of other office bearers
2
Report of the EB on its 139th and 140th sessions
Documents
4
Post of Director-General
Documents
Documents
Action
4.2
Appointment of the Director-General
Action
4.3
Contract of the Director-General
Documents
Documents
5
Admission of new members and associate members [if any]
6
Executive Board: election
8
Reports of the main committees
9
Closure of the Health Assembly
10
Opening of Committee A
11
Programme and budget matters
11.1
Overview of financial situation: Programme budget 2016-17
Documents
11.2
Proposed programme budget 2018-2019
Documents
Documents
Debate
Action
12
Preparedness, surveillance and response
12.1
Health emergencies
Documents
Documents
Debate
Debate
12.2
Antimicrobial resistance
Debate
12.3
Poliomyelitis
Action
12.4
Implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005)
12.5
Review of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework
Documents
Documents
Debate
13
Health systems
13.1
Human resources for health and implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations’ High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth
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Documents
13.2
Principles for global consensus on the donation and management of blood, blood components and medical products of human origin
Documents
Documents
13.3
Addressing the shortage of medicines and vaccines
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Documents
Action
13.4
Evaluation and review of the global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property
Documents
Action
Action
13.5
Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination
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Documents
Action
Action
13.6
Member State mechanism on SFC medical products
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Documents
Debate
13.7
Promoting the health of migrants
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Documents
Debate
Action
14
Communicable diseases
14.1
Global vaccine action plan
Debate
14.2
Global vector control response
Documents
Debate
15
Noncommunicable diseases
15.1
Preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, to be held in 2018
Documents
Documents
15.2
Draft global action plan on the public health response to dementia
Documents
Documents
15.3
Public health dimension of the world drug problem
15.4
Outcome of the Second International Conference on Nutrition
Documents
Action
Action
15.5
Report of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity: implementation plan
Documents
Documents
15.6
Cancer prevention and control in the context of an integrated approach
Documents
Documents
15.7
Strengthening synergies between the World Health Assembly and the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
15.8
Prevention of deafness and hearing loss
Documents
Documents
Debate
Action
16
Promoting health through the life course
16.1
Progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
16.2
The role of the health sector in the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management towards the 2020 goal and beyond
Documents
Documents
16.3
Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030): adolescents’ health
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Documents
17
Progress reports
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Documents
Debate
17(i)
Progress reports: noncommunicable diseases
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Documents
17(ii)
Progress reports: Communicable diseases
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Documents
17(iii)
Progress reports: Promoting health through the life course
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Documents
17(iv)
Progress reports: Health systems
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Documents
17(v)
Progress reports: Preparedness, surveillance and response
18
Opening of Committee B
19
Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan
Documents
20
Financial matters
20.1
WHO mid-term programmatic and financial report for 2016–2017, including audited financial statements for 2016
20.2
Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Member States in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution
Documents
Documents
20.3
Special arrangements for settlement of arrears (Somalia)
Documents
Documents
Action
20.4
Scale of assessments for 2018–2019
Documents
Documents
Debate
Action
20.5
Assessment of new Members and Associate Members [if any]
20.6
Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules [if any]
21
Audit and oversight matters
21.1
Report of the External Auditor
Debate
Action
21.2
Report of the Internal Auditor
Debate
22
Staffing matters
22.1
Human resources: annual report
Debate
22.2
Report of the International Civil Service Commission
Documents
Documents
22.3
Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules
Documents
Documents
22.4
Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
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Documents
22.5
Appointment of representatives to the WHO Staff Pension Committee
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Documents
23
Management, legal and governance matters
23.1
Overview of WHO reform implementation
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Documents
Debate
23.2
Governance reform: follow-up to decision WHA69(8) (2016)
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Documents
Action
23.3
Engagement with non-State actors
23.4
Proposed Infrastructure Fund (consolidating the Real Estate Fund and IT Fund)
Documents
Documents
Action
23.5
Agreements with intergovernmental organizations [if any]
24
Collaboration within the United Nations system and with other intergovernmental organizations
Documents
Documents