From the CEO’s Desk

December, 2017

​As forecast in last month’s column, November has been a month of conferences and conference activities. The WONCA CEO reports on conferences in Thailland, Nepal and thinks forward to the 2018 World conference in Korea.

November, 2017

Greetings again from Bangkok. This month I’ll report on the meeting of the 2016-18 Executive, which took place in Bangkok on 29th and 30th October 2017 - this was the second full meeting of the 2016-18 WONCA Executive and the last meeting for Prof Michael Kidd.

October, 2017

This month I thought it would be useful to remind members about the various WONCA publications, many of which are freely available via the WONCA website, and especially to highlight recent and forthcoming WONCA publications and some key WONCA documents.

August, 2017

It’s been a busy month for travel, with trips to Dubai and Peru for the WONCA CEO. He has attended the WONCA Iberoamericana conference in Peru recently and been planning for our world conference coming to Abu Dhabi in 2020.

July, 2017

The CEO reflects on a "quiet" time of year.. conferences just held, more to come and the 2017 Annual report in final preparation. And WONCA signs an MOU with IPCRG. See what Garth Manning has to say.

June, 2017

The WONCA CEO tells of the recent WHO World Health Assembly and the activities of our WONCA delegation, the Global Forum for human resources for health, the Alma Ata declaration 40 years on, and a visit to the WONCA Secretariat in Bangkok by former manager Yvonne Chung

May, 2017

The CEO discusses this November's WONCA Asia Pacific regional conference coming to Thailand and the 2018 WONCA World conference to be held in South Korea,

May, 2017

The CEO reports on the first full meeting for the 2016 -18 Executive, including on new Member Organizations, and looks forward to World Family Doctor Day.

April, 2017

WONCA CEO, Garth Manning, reports on this year's coming WONCA conferences. It is also World Family Doctor Day on May 19 and this year a theme you may like to use is "depression". The WHO has a number of useful resources for this theme.

March, 2017

I had reported that WONCA, at its October 2016 Council, had approved the formation of several new Special Interest Groups (SIGs) – in Non-Communicable Diseases; Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine; Men’s Health; Health Equity; Genetics; Emergency Medicine; Quaternary Prevention; and Workers’ Health.