2010 WHEN World Health Assembly

 

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WHEN's latest consultation meeting was held on 16th and 17th May in Geneva to discuss issues of the 63rd World Health Assembly (WHA). Various specialists, active in the topics of the assembly were invited to meet the journalists and editors and present to the meeting.

The WHCA Action Guide to the 63rd World Health Assembly, presented at the WHEN and other international meetings held in Geneva over this period, is available to download as a pdf, here

The full report of the meeting will be available on this page soon. 

For further information about WHEN, please select here.

The experts' available PowerPoint presentations are the following:

Alka Mukne, Ph.D. (Tech.), Editor, Pharma Times, India
Charles A. Gardner, Global Forum for Health Research, Geneva
Charles Penn, Global Influenza Programme, WHO Geneva
Dag Rekve, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO Geneva
Ernesto Jaramillo, Manager, MDR-TB Activities, WHO Geneva
Francesco Branca,Director, Nutrition, WHO Geneva
George Hacker, Global Alcohol Policy Alliance, GAPA
Fiona Gore & Annet Mahanani, Dept of Measurement & Health Information Systems, WHO
Joanna Groves, Chief Executive Officer, International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO)
Jorgen Schlundt, Director Food Safety, WHO
Lembit Rägo, Coordinator, Quality Assurance & Safety: Medicines, WHO
Luc Noel, Coordinator? 'Clinical Procedures' ?Essential Health Technologies, WHO
Roberto Bertollini (1) Senior Adviser and Coordinator,  Public Health & Environment Department, WHO
Roberto Bertollini (2) Senior Adviser and Coordinator,  Public Health & Environment Department, WHO
Rüdiger Krech, Director, Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, WHO
Scott C. Ratzan, Editor, Health Communication International Perspectives, Vice President Global Health, Johnson & Johnson