Provisional Agenda English – RC66-Version 1

REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE EM/RC66/1
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 18 June 2019
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 EM/RC66/1
2. (a) Annual Report of the Regional Director 2018 EM/RC66/2
Progress reports on:
(b) Eradication of poliomyelitis EM/RC66/INF.DOC.1
(c) Health, the environment and climate change EM/RC66/INF.DOC.2
(d) Regional strategy for the improvement of civil registration and
vital statistics systems 2014–2019
EM/RC66/INF.DOC.3
(e) Implementation of the Eastern Mediterranean vaccine action plan
and the regional malaria action plan 2016–2020.
EM/RC66/INF.DOC.4
(f) Scaling up mental health care: a framework for action EM/RC66/INF.DOC.5
(g) Implementing the regional framework for action on cancer
prevention and control
EM/RC66/INF.DOC.6
(h) Implementation of the global action plan on antimicrobial
resistance
EM/RC66/INF.DOC.7
(i) Emergencies and the International Health Regulations (2005) in
the Eastern Mediterranean Region
EM/RC66/INF.DOC.8
3. Technical papers
(a) Regional implementation framework on ending preventable
newborn, child and adolescent deaths and improving health and
development
EM/RC66/3
(b) Call for action to strengthen the nursing workforce to advance
universal health coverage in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
EM/RC66/4
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(c) Inroducing the strategic framework for action for the hospital
sector in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
EM/RC66/5
(d) Dveloping national institutional capacity for evidence-informed
policy-making for health
EM/RC66/6
(e) Accelerating regional implementation of the Political Declaration
of the Third United Nations High-level Meeting on
Noncommunicable Diseases, 2018
EM/RC66/7
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
EM/RC66/8
(b) Review of the draft provisional agenda of the 146th session of the
WHO Executive Board
EM/RC66/8-Annex 1
(c) Global strategy for tuberculosis research and innovation EM/RC66/9
(d) Global strategy on digital health EM/RC66/10
(e) Global strategy to accelerate cervical cancer elimination EM/RC66/11
(f) Results framework EM/RC66/12
(g) Proposal for a Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020–2030 EM/RC66/13
(h) WHO country presence report 2019 EM/RC66/INF.DOC.9
5. Report of the fourth meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee to
the Regional Director
EM/RC66/INF.DOC.10
6. Report of the fifth meeting of the Programme Subcommittee of the
Regional Committee
EM/RC66/14
7. Awards
(a) Award of the Dr A.T. Shousha Foundation Prize EM/RC66/INF.DOC.11
(b)Award of the State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cancer,
Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in the Eastern
Mediterranean Region
EM/RC66/INF.DOC.12
8. Place and date of future sessions of the Regional Committee EM/RC66/INF.DOC.13
9. Other business
10. Closing Session