Statements by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and non-State actors (NSAs) in official relations with WHO at the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific
6-9 October 2020, Manila, Philippines (virtual)
Seventy-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific


Provisional Agenda

Opening of the session and adoption of the agenda

1Opening of the session

2Address by the outgoing Chairperson

3Election of new officers: Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Rapporteurs

4Address by the incoming Chairperson

5Adoption of the agenda


Keynote address

6Address by the Director-General


Review of the work of WHO

7Address by and Report of the Regional Director

8Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)






















8.1Overview and update of the COVID-19 situation




8.2WHO’s work in countries in support of the COVID-19 response



9Programme budget 2018–2019: budget performance (final report)


Policies, programmes and priorities for the future

10Proposed programme budget 2022–2023


11Ageing and health










12Vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization








13Safe and affordable surgery











14Progress reports on technical programmes





14.1Thematic priority: Health security, including antimicrobial resistance






14.2Thematic priority: Noncommunicable diseases and ageing












14.3Thematic priority: Climate change, the environment and health







14.4Thematic priority: Reaching the unreached





14.5Driving the vision of For the Future




15Coordination of the work of the World Health Assembly, the Executive Board and the Regional Committee




15.1Agenda for the seventy-second session of the Regional Committee in 2021

15.2WHO reform

15.3Items recommended by the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board

15.4Other items


Membership of Global Committee

16Membership of Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction: Membership of the Policy and Coordination Committee


Other matters

17Time and place of the seventy-second and seventy-third sessions of the Regional Committee

18Closure of the session