REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Sixty-sixth Session Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, 14-17 October 2019
Provisional Agenda
1. Opening of the Session
(a) Election of Officers (
b) Adoption of the Agenda
2. (a) Annual Report of the Regional Director 2018
Progress reports on:
(b) Eradication of poliomyelitis
(c) Health, the environment and climate change
(d) Regional strategy for the improvement of civil registration and vital statistics systems 2014–2019
(e) Implementation of the Eastern Mediterranean vaccine action plan and the regional malaria action plan 2016–2020.
(f) Scaling up mental health care: a framework for action
(g) Implementing the regional framework for action on cancer prevention and control
(h) Implementation of the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance
(i) Emergencies and the International Health Regulations (2005) in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
3. Technical papers
(a) Regional implementation framework on ending preventable newborn, child and adolescent deaths and improving health and development
(b) Call for action to strengthen the nursing workforce to advance universal health coverage in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
(c) Inroducing the strategic framework for action for the hospital sector in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
(d) Dveloping national institutional capacity for evidence-informed policy-making for health
(e) Accelerating implementation of the updated regional framework for action on NCDs
(f) Regional framework for action on strengthening the public health response to substance use and substance use disorders
4. World Health Assembly and Executive Board
(a) Resolutions and decisions of regional interest adopted by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly and the Executive Board at its 144th and 145th sessions
(b) Review of the draft provisional agenda of the 146th session of the WHO Executive Board EM/RC66/9-Annex 1 (c) Global strategy for tuberculosis research and innovation
(d) Global strategy on digital health
(e) Global strategy to accelerate cervical cancer elimination
(f) Results framework
(g) Proposal for a Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020–2030
(h) WHO country presence report 2019
5. Report of the fourth meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee to the Regional Director
6. Report of the fifth meeting of the Programme Subcommittee of the Regional Committee
7. Awards
(a) Award of the Dr A.T. Shousha Foundation Prize
(b) Award of the State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
8. Place and date of future sessions of the Regional Committee
9. Other business
10. Closing Session
