RC71 Provisional Agenda English 240731

REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE EM/RC71/1
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 31 July 2024
Seventy-first session
Doha, Qatar, 14–17 October 2024
Provisional Agenda
1. Opening of the session
(a) Election of Officers
(b) Adoption of the Agenda EM/RC71/1
2. (a) Annual Report of the Regional Director 2023 EM/RC71/2
Progress reports on:
(b) Poliomyelitis eradication and polio transition EM/RC71/INF.DOC.1
(c) Strategic framework for blood safety and availability, 2016–2025 EM/RC71/INF.DOC.2
(d) Regional strategy to improve access to medicines and vaccines in the
Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2020–2030, including lessons from the
COVID-19 pandemic
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.3
(e) Health issues facing populations affected by disasters and emergencies,
including the International Health Regulations (2005)
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.4
(f) Building resilient health systems to advance universal health coverage and
ensure health security in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.5
(g) Accelerating the prevention, control and elimination of communicable
diseases through integration: optimizing support from Gavi and the Global
Fund
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.6
(h) Promoting health and well-being in the Eastern Mediterranean Region:
moving from theory to action to achieve the health-related Sustainable
Development Goals
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.7
(i) Advancing the implementation of One Health in the Eastern Mediterranean
Region
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.8
(j) Regional strategy for fostering digital health in the Eastern Mediterranean
Region, 2023–2027
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.9
(k) The work of the High-level Ministerial Group on the Control of Tobacco
and Emerging Tobacco and Nicotine Products in the Eastern Mediterranean
Region
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.10
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(l) Strategy to promote the health and well-being of refugees, migrants,
internally displaced populations and other displaced groups in the Eastern
Mediterranean Region
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.11
3. Technical papers
(a) Addressing the increasing burden of trauma in humanitarian settings in the
Eastern Mediterranean Region
EM/RC71/3
(b) Promoting collaborative action to accelerate the regional response to
antimicrobial resistance in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
EM/RC71/4
(c) Regional action plan for mental health and psychosocial support in
emergencies, including substance use, 2024–2030
EM/RC71/5
(d) Enhancement and digitalization of health information systems in the
countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a regional strategy,
2024–2028
EM/RC71/6
4. World Health Assembly and Executive Board
Programme and budget matters
(a) Investment Case 2025–2028 and latest on WHO Investment Round EM/RC71/7
(b) WHO Fourteenth General Programme of Work 2025–2028 (GPW14):
regional analysis
EM/RC71/8
Governance matters
(c) Resolutions and decisions of regional interest adopted by the Seventy-
seventh World Health Assembly and the Executive Board at its 154th
and 155th sessions
EM/RC71/9
(d) Review of the draft provisional agenda of the 156th session of the
WHO Executive Board
EM/RC71/9-Annex 1
(e) Membership of WHO bodies and committees EM/RC71/10
(f) Update on implementation of the WHO Transformation Agenda in the
Eastern Mediterranean Region
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.12
(g) Process for the nomination and appointment of Regional Directors EM/RC71/INF.DOC.13
(h) Process of handling and investigating potential allegations against
WHO Directors-General
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.14
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5. Reports of the nineteenth and twentieth meetings of the Programme
Subcommittee of the Regional Committee
EM/RC71/11
EM/RC71/12
6. Reports of the tenth and eleventh meetings of the Regional Subcommittee for
Polio Eradication and Outbreaks
EM/RC71/13
EM/RC71/14
7. Procedure for accreditation of regional non-State actors not in official relations
with WHO to attend meetings of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern
Mediterranean
EM/RC71/15
8. Application from the Russian Federation to attend the WHO Regional
Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean in an observer capacity
EM/RC71/16
9. Awards
a) Award of the State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cancer,
Cardiovascular Diseases, and Diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
EM/RC71/INF.DOC.15
b) Award of the Down Syndrome Research Prize EM/RC71/INF.DOC.16
10. Place and date of future sessions of the Regional Committee EM/RC71/INF.DOC.17
11. Other business
12. Closing session