Programme

Programme

Monday, 9 October 2023 (Pre-Regional Committee meetings)

07:00–09:00

Walk the Talk – including event on youth

10.00–10.30

Coffee break

10.30–10.45

Opening remarks and ground rules setting

10:45–11:30

Session 1: Pre-Regional Committee technical meeting

Minimizing morbidity and mortality due to trauma in humanitarian settings

11:30–12:15

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?

12:15–13:00

Session 3: Pre-Regional Committee technical meeting

Developing and implementing national plans for the development and implementation of clinical practice and public health guidelines

13:00–14:00

Lunch break

14:00–14:45

Session 4: Pre-Regional Committee technical meeting

The increasing threat of vector-borne diseases: the need for an integrated approach

14:45–16:00

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

16:30–18:00

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

09:00–09:30

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

09:30–11:00

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

11:00–11:30

Break 

11:30–12:15

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

12:15–13:00

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

13:00–14:00

Lunch break

14:00–18:00

Session 5

Private meeting (only Members of the Committee): Nomination of the Regional Director

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

09:00–10:00

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

10:00–11:00

Session 2

Technical paper

Addressing noncommunicable diseases in emergencies: a regional framework for action

Discussion

11:00–11:30

Break

11:30–12:30

Session 3

Technical paper

Strengthening public health readiness for mass gatherings in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Discussion

12:30–13:30

Session 4

Panel discussion

Youth health and well-being in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a better future for all

13:30–14:30

Lunch break

14:30–15:30

Session 5

Technical paper

Health workforce in Eastern Mediterranean Region: from COVID-19 lessons to action

Discussion

15:30–16:30

Session 6

Technical paper

Climate change, health and environment: a regional framework for action, 2023–2029

Discussion

16:30–17:30

Side event – Closed meeting

The effect of sanctions on health and health systems

17:30–18:30

Break

18:30–20:30

Meeting of the Drafting Committee (Seventh floor meeting room)

18:30–19:30

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)

19:30–20:30

Closed meeting:

Award of the Down Syndrome Research Prize (Third floor meeting room)

Thursday, 12 October 2023

09:00–10:00

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 20002017, and recommendations for sunsetting and reporting requirements

Update on implementation of the WHO Transformation Agenda in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Discussion

10:00–11:00

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

11:00–11:30

Break

11:30–12:30

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

12.30–13.30

Lunch break

13.30–13.40

Statement from the Eastern Mediterranean Region Staff Association (EMRSA)

13.40–13.50

Statement from the Eastern Mediterranean Region former and retired staff (EMR/RFS)

13:50–14:20

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

14:20–15:00

Session 5

Adoption of the report, resolutions and decisions

15:00–15:30

Session 6

Closing session