WONCA - WHO Liaison
The
WONCA Executive Board appoints one of its members to be the Liaison Person to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr Viviana Martinez Bianchi (USA/Argentina) has taken over this role as of November 2016. WONCA acknowledges the significant work done by her predecessor
Dr Luisa Pettigrew. Through these WONCA - WHO Liaison webpages WONCA members can be kept informed of WHO activity as links to WHO news items, publications and updates on WONCA's work with the WHO are posted.
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70th World Health Assembly Report
July, 2017
WONCA was represented at the 70th World Health Assembly by Amanda Howe (WONCA President), Donald Li (WONCA President-Elect), Garth Manning (WONCA CEO) and Viviana Martinez-Bianchi (WONCA-WHO Liaison).
Rural round up: The development of the Rural Family Medicine Café
January, 2017
Mayara Floss is a keynote speaker at the WONCA World Rural health conference coming to Cairns, Australia from 29 April- 2 May 2017. she created the Rural Family Medicine Café to provide a forum to discuss Rural Health and has now written a "how to" manual so others can expand on the rural cafe movement
WHO Technical Series on Safer Primary Care
December, 2016
The Technical Series on Safer Primary Care is a series of nine monographs, which explore the magnitude and nature of harm of each topic in the primary care setting, and provides potential solutions and practical next steps for improvement.
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi – new WONCA WHO Liaison
November, 2016
Dr Viviana Martinez-Bianchi from USA and Argentina was elected in Rio, as a Member-at-Large on the WONCA World executive and is the new WONCA WHO Liaison person. She reports on the WHO presence and presentations at our recent World conference in Rio.
WHO Framework on integrated people-centred health services website
November, 2016
At the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly Member States officially adopted the Framework on integrated people-centred health services (IPCHS) and its supporting resolution, formally giving the WHO Secretariat the mandate to work across the organization to support the implementation, national adaptation and operationalization of the Framework. The new website aims to be a steward for the Framework
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