54th Directing Council

67th Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas

Washington, D.C., 28 September-2 October 2015

The Council meets once a year in those years when the Conference does not meet. It acts on behalf of the Conference between sessions of the Conference.

                     Final Report | Official Documents | Working Documents 
                  Information Documents | Resolutions | Diverse Documents

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 Final Report

• pdf CD54/FR
  — Final Report

Official Documents

• Official Document 349
— Financial Report of the Director and Report of the External Auditor for 2014

• pdf Official Document 350
— PAHO Program and Budget 2016-2017

• pdf Official Document 350, Add. I
— Addendum to the PAHO Program and Budget 2016-2017 - Program Budget Scenarios

•  pdf Official Document 350, Add. II
— Proposed Resolution — PAHO Program and Budget 2016-2017

• pdf Official Document 350, Add. III, Rev. 1
— Proposed Resolution - Assessed Contributions of the Member States, Participating States, and Associate Members of the Pan American Health Organization for 2016-2017

 Working Documents

• pdf CD54/1, Rev. 3
  —  Agenda
  
  
• pdf CD54/2
  —  Annual Report of the President of the Executive Committee
  
  
• pdf CD54/3
  — Annual Report of the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
  
  
• pdf CD54/4  
  — Election of Three Member States to the Executive Committee on the Expiration of the Periods of Office of Canada, Jamaica, and Paraguay
  
  
• pdf CD54/5, Rev. 1
  —  New Scale of Assessed Contributions
  
  
• pdf CD54/6
  —  WHO Reform
  
  
• pdf CD54/7, Rev. 2
  —  Plan of Action on Immunization
  
  
• pdf CD54/8, Rev. 1
  — Strategy and Plan of Action on Dementias in Older Persons
  
  
• pdf CD54/9, Rev. 2
  —  Strategy and Plan of Action on Strengthening the Health System to Address Violence against Women
  
  
• pdf CD54/10, Rev. 1
  —  Plan of Action on Workers' Health
  
  
• pdf CD54/11, Rev. 1  
  — Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis
  
  
• pdf CD54/12, Rev. 1
  — Plan of Action on Antimicrobial Resistance
  
  
• pdf CD54/13, Rev. 1
  — Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis
  
  
• pdf CD54/14, Rev. 1
  — Strategy on Health-related Law
  
  
• pdf CD54/22
  — El Niño 2015-2016 in the Region of the Americas
  
  
• pdf CD54/23
  — Method for the Estimation of Maternal Mortality in the Period 1990-2015
  
  
• pdf CD54/15
  — Report on the Collection of Assessed Contributions
  
  
• pdf CD54/15, Add. I
  — Report on the Collection of Assessed Contributions
  
  
• pdf CD54/16
  — Proposal for the Use of the Balance of the IPSAS and Budgetary Surpluses
  
  
• pdf CD54/17
  — Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules of PAHO
  
  
• pdf CD54/18, Rev. 1
  — Appointment of the External Auditor of PAHO for 2016-2017
  
  
• pdf CD54/19  
  — Selection of Two Members from the Region of the Americas Entitled to Designate a Person to Serve on the Policy and
  Coordination Committee of the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Program of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction
  
  
• pdf CD54/20
  — Election of Three Members to the Advisory Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME)

Information Documents

• pdf CD54/INF/1  
  — Regional Goals for Human Resources for Health 2007-2015: Final Report
  
  
• pdf CD54/INF/1, Add. I
  — Report on the Development of the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health:  Workforce 2030
  
  
• pdf CD54/INF/2
  — Evaluation of the Plan of Action for Implementing the Gender Equality Policy and Proposed Strategic Lines of Action
  
  
• pdf CD54/INF/3
  — Report on Chikungunya Virus Transmission and its Impact in the Region of the Americas
  
  
• pdf CD54/INF/4
  — International Health Regulations and Ebola Virus Disease
  
  
• pdf CD54/INF/4, Add. I
  — Regional Consultation on the IHR Monitoring Scheme post-2016
  
  
• pdf CD54/INF/5
  — Progress Reports on Technical Matters:
  
  A. — pdf Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
  
  B. — pdf Proposed 10-Year Regional Plan on Oral Health for the Americas
  
  C. — pdf Plan of Action on Road Safety
  
  D. — pdf Dengue Prevention and Control in the Americas
  
  E. — pdf Chronic Kidney Disease in Agricultural Communities in Central America
  
  F. —  pdf Health Technology Assessment and Incorporation into Health Systems
  
  G. — pdf Status of the Pan American Centers
  
  
• pdf CD54/INF/6
  — Resolutions and other Actions of Intergovernmental Organizations of Interest to PAHO:
  

  A. — pdf Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly

  B. — pdf Forty-fifth Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States

  C. — Subregional Organizations

Resolutions

• pdf CD54.R1
  — Collection of Assessed Contributions
  
  
• pdf CD54.R2
  — New Scale of Assessed Contributions
  
  
• pdf CD54.R3
  — Amendments to the Financial Regulations of PAHO
  
  
• pdf CD54.R4
  — Election of Three Member States to the Executive Committee on the Expiration of the Periods of Office of Canada, Jamaica, and Paraguay
  
  
• pdf CD54.R5
  — Election of Three Members to the Advisory Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME)
  
  
• pdf CD54.R6
  — Plan of Action on Workers' Health
  
  
• pdf CD54.R7
  — Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis
  
  
• pdf CD54.R8
  — Plan of Action on Immunization
  
  
• pdf CD54.R9
  — Strategy on Health-related Law
  
  
• pdf CD54.R10
  — Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis
  
  
• pdf CD54.R11
  — Strategy and Plan of Action on Dementias in Older Persons
  
  
• pdf CD54.R12
  — Strategy and Plan of Action on Strengthening the Health System to Address Violence against Women
  
  
• pdf CD54.R13
  — Use of the Balance of the IPSAS and Budgetary Surpluses
  
  
• pdf CD54.R14
  — Appointment of the External Auditor of PAHO for 2016-2017
  
  
• pdf CD54.R15
  — Plan of Action on Antimicrobial Resistance
  
  
• pdf CD54.R16
  — PAHO Program and Budget 2016-2017
  
  
• pdf CD54.R17
  — Assessed contributions of the Member States, Participating States, and Associate Members of the Pan American Health Organization for 2016-2017
  
  
• pdf CD54.R18
  — Method for the Estimation of Maternal Mortality in the Period 1990-2015

Diverse Documents

pdf CD54/LP
— List of Participants

• pdf CD54/DIV/1
— Opening Remarks by the Outgoing President of the PAHO Directing Council,
Dr. Sergio Sarita Valdéz, Coordinator of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Public Health of the Dominican Republic


• pdf CD54/DIV/2
— Opening Remarks by the President of Honduras, H.E. Juan Orlando Hernández


• pdf CD54/DIV/3
— Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau and Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization

•  pdf CD54/DIV/4
— Opening Remarks by Dr. Hans Troedsson Assistant Director-General for General Management of the World Health Organization at the 54th Directing Council of PAHO, 67th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Americas

• pdf CD54/DIV/5
— Opening Remarks by Mr. Luis Almagro Lemes, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States

•  pdf CD54/DIV/6
— Opening Remarks by Hon. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America

• pdf CD54/DIV/7
— Opening Remarks by Mr. Héctor Salazar Sánchez, Social Sector Manager, Inter-American Development Bank

• pdf CD54/DIV/8
— Address by the President of the 54th Directing Council of PAHO, Dr. Violeta Menjívar, Minister of Health of El Salvador