WONCA and WHO News

March, 2019

Dr Ruth Wilson of Canada, reports on the WHO consultative meeting “Implementing WHO’s Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication without harm. Country guidance.” The meeting took place from November 22 – 23, 2018, in Geneva.

November, 2018

It is with great pleasure that the WHO GCM/NCD Secretariat​ has announced that the Knowledge Action Portal has officially launched. This is a community driven platform for NCD information, interaction and inspiration.

November, 2018

Domingo Orozco-Beltrán, WONCA Special Interest Group on NCDs convener, reports on the General Meeting of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD) held in Geneva, 5-6 November 2018.

November, 2018

Alan Abelsohn, past chair of WONCA Working Party on the Environment (WPEnv) reports: Alice McGushin (Vice Chair WPEnv) and I attended the first WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health, in Geneva, on 30 October-1 November 2018. ​

October, 2018

WONCA was represented at the "Global Conference on Primary Health Care", in Astana, Kazakhstan by the President, Immediate Past President, President- Elect, Young Doctor Movement representative, and two Executive Members-at-large. WONCA notes that the Declaration no longer includes the specific mentioning of family doctors or any other members of the primary healthcare teams. The prior public draft did include different disciplines needed in the Primary Health Care (PHC) team, but these have all been removed in the final version signed by Member States. Wehad hoped and strongly advocated for Family Medicine to be specifically included in the declaration.

June, 2018

Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari was appointed as WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean by WHO’s Executive Board at its 143rd session and assumed office on 1 June 2018.

November, 2017

WHO has announced that Governments endorsed the Montevideo Roadmap 2018-2030 on NCDs as a Sustainable Development Priority at the opening of the three-day Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases in Montevideo, hosted by WHO and the Presidency of Uruguay.

November, 2017

The Sixty-Eighth Session of the Regional Office for the WHO Western Pacific (WPRO) 68th Regional Committee was held in Brisbane, Australia 9–13 October 2017. WONCA was repesented by WONCA Executive member Dr Karen Flegg. WONCA submitted four written statements.

November, 2017

WONCA EMR delivered the following statement to the 64th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean held in Islamabad - Pakistan, from 9-12 October 2017

October, 2017

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced his senior leadership team.