2022_Programme

Twenty-ninth Standing Committee of
the Regional Committee for Europe
Third session
Copenhagen, Denmark, 10–11 May 2022
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Draft provisional programme of the 72nd session of the
WHO Regional Committee for Europe
Tel Aviv, Israel, 12–14 September 2022
Monday, 12 September 2022
Opening and global and regional updates from WHO1
08:30–09:30 Opening of the session
• Election of officers
• Adoption of special rules and procedures (if needed)
• Adoption of the provisional agenda, provisional programme and
provisional annotated programme
• Report of the Twenty-ninth Standing Committee of the Regional
Committee for Europe (SCRC)
09:30–10:00 High-level segment with invited dignitaries
10:00–10:30 Address by the WHO Director-General: the state of health in the world
10:30–11:00 Address by and report of the WHO Regional Director for Europe: the
state of health in the WHO European Region
11:00–11:30 Healthy break (including group photo)
11:30–13:00 Discussion on the addresses by the Director-General and the Regional
Director
13:00–14:00 Lunch
13:00–15:00 Technical briefing:
Health systems in action (jointly
organized with the European
Observatory on Health Systems and
Policies)
Ministerial lunch: Access to effective,
novel, high-priced medicines in the
WHO European Region
1 Political day of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (RC).
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15:00–15:30 Keynote speeches
15:30–16:30 European regional action framework for behavioural and cultural
insights for health, 2022–2027
16:30–17:00 Healthy break
17:00–18:00 Regional digital health action plan for the WHO European Region
2023–2030
19:00–21:00 Reception hosted by the Minister of Health, Israel
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Update on technical priorities of countries and partners2
08:00–09:00 Side event: The economy of well-being:
health at the centre of recovery
Technical briefing: Building urban
futures better
09:00–10:30 The WHO European framework for action to achieve the highest
attainable standard of health for persons with disabilities 2022–2030
10:30–11:00 Healthy break
11:00–12:30 Strengthening health emergency preparedness, response and resilience:
learning the lessons and building back better
12:30–14:00 Lunch
12:30–14:00 Technical briefing:
Long COVID
Side event: Global
Health for Peace
Initiative
Ministerial lunch: Setting the course
towards ending TB and HIV epidemics
and eliminating hepatitis – what is
needed for the WHO European Region
to reach the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development?
14:00–15:30 Regional Action Plans 2022–2030 for ending AIDS, the epidemics of viral
hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections; and tuberculosis
15:30–16:00 Healthy break
16:00–17:00 Roadmap to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public
health problem in the WHO European Region 2022–2030
17:00–18:00 European Action Plan to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol, 2022–2025
19:00–21:00 Reception hosted by the Regional Director
2 Technical day of the RC.
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Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Governance matters and closure3
08:00–09:00 Technical briefing: Towards a decade of
healthy ageing in Europe: a roadmap for
implementation
Side event: Tackling childhood
overweight and obesity in the WHO
European Region
09:00–10:30 Private meeting: elections and nominations
• Nomination of two members of the Executive Board
• Election of four members of the SCRC
• Election of one member of the Joint Coordinating Board of the Special
Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
10:30–11:00 Healthy break
11:00–12:30 Delivering United Action for Better Health – a strategy for collaboration
between the WHO Regional Office for Europe and Member States of the
WHO European Region
12:30–14:00 Lunch
12:30–14:00 Side event: Personalised and precision
medicine in Europe: leaving no one
behind
Side event: Health workforce in the
WHO European Region: Where are we
now? How do we deliver on universal
health coverage?
14:00–15:00 Programme budget 2022–2023 (revised): revised regional plan for
implementation
Proposed high-level programme budget 2024–2025 for WHO Regional
Committee for Europe consultations
15:00–15:30 Progress reports
15:30–16:00 Healthy break
16:00–17:00 Matters arising from resolutions and decisions of the World Health
Assembly and the Executive Board
17:00–17:30 Engagement with non-State actors: accreditation and triennial review of
regional non-State actors not in official relations with WHO to attend
meetings of the Regional Committee
17:30–18:00 Confirmation of dates and places of regular sessions of the Regional
Committee in 2023–2025
Other matters
Closure of the session
19:00–21:00 Reception for members of the SCRC
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3 Governance day of the RC.