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Monday, 9 October 2023 (Pre-Regional Committee meetings)
Walk the Talk – including event on youth
Coffee break
Opening remarks and ground rules setting
Session 1: Pre-Regional Committee technical meeting
Minimizing morbidity and mortality due to trauma in humanitarian settings
Session 2: Pre-Regional Committee technical meeting
Designing and implementing PHC-oriented models of care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: what do we know so far?
Session 3: Pre-Regional Committee technical meeting
Developing and implementing national plans for the development and implementation of clinical practice and public health guidelines
Lunch break
Session 4: Pre-Regional Committee technical meeting
The increasing threat of vector-borne diseases: the need for an integrated approach
Session 5: Panel discussion
The Regional Health Alliance: accelerating Joint UN Implementation of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals to support Member States of the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Session 6: OPENING CEREMONY
Recital from the Holy Quran
Address by the Chair of the 69th session of the Regional Committee
Address by Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean (followed by a video)
Address by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General
High-level segment
Ms Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group
Dr Moustafa ElFiky, Egyptian journalist and political thinker
Ms Omnia El Omrani, COP27 President’s Youth Envoy
Awards
Group photo
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Session 1
(a) Election of officers
Chair
2 Vice-Chairs
(b) Adoption of the provisional agenda and provisional daily timetable
(c) Decision on establishment of the Drafting Committee
Session 2
Final report on implementing Vision 2023
Final report to Member States on progress, achievements and challenges in implementing Vision 2023; progress reports
Discussion
Break
Session 3
Special updates
Emergencies in the Eastern Mediterranean Region including update from the following:
Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB)
Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)
Discussion
Session 4
Special updates
Polio eradication in the Eastern Mediterranean Region including the seventh meeting report of the Regional Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks
Discussion
Lunch break
Session 5
Private meeting (only Members of the Committee): Nomination of the Regional Director
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Session 1
Reports of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth meetings of the Programme Subcommittee of the Regional Committee
Amended and restated terms of reference of the Programme Subcommittee
Place and date of future sessions of the Regional Committee
Membership of WHO bodies and committees
Discussion
Session 2
Technical paper
Addressing noncommunicable diseases in emergencies: a regional framework for action
Discussion
Break
Session 3
Technical paper
Strengthening public health readiness for mass gatherings in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Discussion
Session 4
Panel discussion
Youth health and well-being in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a better future for all
Lunch break
Session 5
Technical paper
Health workforce in Eastern Mediterranean Region: from COVID-19 lessons to action
Discussion
Session 6
Technical paper
Climate change, health and environment: a regional framework for action, 2023–2029
Discussion
Side event – Closed meeting
The effect of sanctions on health and health systems
Break
Meeting of the Drafting Committee (Seventh floor meeting room)
Closed meeting:
Foundation for the State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (Third floor meeting room)
Closed meeting:
Award of the Down Syndrome Research Prize (Third floor meeting room)
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Session 1
World Health Assembly and Executive Board follow-up – governance matters
Review of the draft provisional agenda of the 154th session of the WHO Executive Board
Review of the status of resolutions adopted by the Regional Committee during the period 20002017, and recommendations for sunsetting and reporting requirements
Update on implementation of the WHO Transformation Agenda in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Discussion
Session 2
Coordination of work of the Health Assembly, Executive Board and the Regional Committees
Resolutions and decisions of regional interest adopted by the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly and the Executive Board at its 152nd and 153rd sessions, including updates on:
Behavioural sciences for better health
Achieving well-being: a global framework for integrating well-being into public health utilizing a health promotion approach
Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, and mental health
Strengthening diagnostics capacity
Substandard and falsified medical products
Integrated emergency, critical and operative care for universal health coverage and protection from health emergencies
Global strategy on infection prevention and control
The health of Indigenous Peoples
WHO traditional medicine strategy 2014–2023
Discussion
Break
Session 3
World Health Assembly and Executive Board – Programme and budget matters
Fourteenth General Programme of Work, 2025–2028
Proposed approach for a draft full plan for the WHO investment round
Discussion
Lunch break
Statement from the Eastern Mediterranean Region Staff Association (EMRSA)
Statement from the Eastern Mediterranean Region former and retired staff (EMR/RFS)
Session 4
Nominations
Nomination of a Member State to the Policy and Coordination Committee of the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction
Session 5
Adoption of the report, resolutions and decisions
Session 6
Closing session