66th Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas
Washington, D.C., 29 September to 3 October 2014
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.
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Final Report
- pdf CD53/FR
- Final Report
- Official Document 348
- Final Report of the PAHO Strategic Plan 2008-2013 and End-of-Biennium Assessment of the Program and Budget 2012-2013
- Official Document 347
- Financial Report of the Director and Report of the External Auditor for 2013
- Official Document 345
- Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization 2014-2019
- Official Document 345, Add. I
- Proposed Resolution- PAHO Strategic Plan 2014-2019 (Amended)
- CD53/1
- Agenda
- pdf CD53/2
- Annual Report of the President of the Executive Committee
- pdf CD53/3, Rev. 1
- Annual Report of the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
- pdf CD53/4
- Election of Three Member States to the Executive Committee on the Expiration of the Periods of Office of Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador
- pdf CD53/5, Rev. 2
- Strategy for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage
- pdf CD53/6
- Plan of Action for Universal Access to Safe Blood
- pdf CD53/7, Rev. 1
- Plan of Action on Disabilities and Rehabilitation
- pdf CD53/8, Rev. 1
- Plan of Action on Mental Health
- CD53/9, Rev. 2
- Plan of Action for the Prevention of Obesity in Children and Adolescents
- CD53/10, Rev. 1
- Plan of Action on Health in All Policies
- pdf CD53/11
- Plan of Action for the Prevention of Blindness and Visual Impairment
- pdf CD53/12
- Plan of Action for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance
- pdf CD53/13
- Strategy on Health-Related Law
- pdf CD53/14
- Advancing toward a Regional Position on International Health Regulations
- pdf CD53/15
- WHO's Engagement with Non-state Actors (Regional Consultation)
- pdf CD53/16
- Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (Roundtable)
- CD53/16, Add. I
- Background Document for the Roundtable
- CD53/16, Add. II
- Roundtable on the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda: Summary of the Discussion
- pdf CD53/17
- Report on the Collection of Assessed Contributions
- pdf CD53/17, Add. I
- Report on the Collection of Assessed Contributions
- pdf CD53/18
- Status and Authorized Level of the Working Capital Fund
- pdf CD53/19
- Status of the Project for Modernization of the PASB Management Information System
- pdf CD53/20
- Selection of One Member State from the Region of the Americas Entitled to Designate a Person to Serve on the Joint Coordinating Board of the UNICEF/UNDP/ World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)
- pdf CD53/21
- Election of Two Members to the Advisory Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME)
- pdf CD53/22
- PAHO Award for Administration (2014)
- pdf CD53/23
- PAHO Revolving Fund for Vaccine Procurement: Challenges and Opportunities
- CD53/INF/1
- Update on WHO Reform
- CD53/INF/2
- Draft proposed WHO Programme Budget 2016-2017
- pdf CD53/INF/3
- WHO Strategic Budget Space Allocation
- CD53/INF/4, Rev, 1
- Report on the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on the Progress Achieved in the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases
- pdf CD53/INF/5
- Systematization of PAHO Mandates
- pdf CD53/INF/6
- Progress Reports on Technical Matters:
A. - Strategy and Plan of Action on Climate Change
B. - Plan of Action for Maintaining Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Elimination in the Region of the Americas Syndrome Elimination in the Region of the Americas
C. - Plan of Action to Accelerate the Reduction in Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity
D. - Status of the Millennium Development Goals
E. - Elimination of Neglected Diseases and other Poverty-related Infections
F. - Plan of Action on Safe Hospitals
G. - Status of the Pan American Centers
- pdf CD53/INF/7
- Resolutions and other Actions of Intergovernmental Organizations of Interest to PAHO:
A. - Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly
B. - Forty-fourth Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States
C. - Subregional Organizations
- pdf CD53.R1
- Collection of Assessed Contributions
- pdf CD53.R2
- Plan of Action on Health in all Policies
- pdf CD53.R3
- PAHO Strategic Plan 2014-2019 Amended
- pdf CD53.R4
- Election of three Member States to the Executive Committee on the Expiration of the periods of office of Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador
- pdf CD53.R5
- Election of two Members to the Advisory Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME)
- pdf CD53.R6
- Plan of Action for Universal Access to Safe Blood
- pdf CD53.R7
- Plan of Action on Mental Health
- pdf CD53.R8
- Plan of Action for the Prevention of Blindness and Visual Impairment
- pdf CD53.R9
- Plan of Action for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance
- pdf CD53.R10
- Status and Authorized Level of the Working Capital Fund
- pdf CD53.R11
- Status of the Project for the Modernization of the PASB Management Information System
- pdf CD53.R12
- Plan of Action on Disabilities and Rehabilitation
- pdf CD53.R13
- Plan of Action for the Prevention of Obesity in Children and Adolescents
- pdf CD53.R14
- Strategy for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage
- pdf CD53/LP
- List of Participants
- pdf CD53/DIV/1
- Background Paper for 2014 Regional Committees Update on 2014 Ebola Outbreak
- pdf CD53/DIV/2
- Opening Remarks by the outgoing President of the PAHO Directing Council, Ms. Carina Vance Mafla Minister of Health of Ecuador
- pdf CD53/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 CD53/DIV/4
- Opening Remarks by Hon. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America
- pdf CD53/DIV/5
- Opening Remarks by Ferdinando Regalia, Chief, Social Protection and Health Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- pdf CD53/DIV/6
- Opening Remarks by Mr. José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States
- pdf CD53/DIV/7
- Remarks by the President of the 53rd Directing Council of PAHO, Dr. Lorenzo Wilfredo Hidalgo, Minister of Health and Social Services of the Dominican Republic
- pdf CD53/DIV/8
- Annual Report of the Director 2013-2014: Innovating for Health, Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
- pdf CD53/DIV/9
- Message from the First Lady of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Wilma Pastrana Jiménez, to the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization
- pdf CD53/DIV/10
- Address by Dr. Miguel Ángel Lezana Fernández upon Receiving the PAHO Award for Administration (2014)
- pdf CD53/DIV/11
- Remarks by Dr. Javier Torres-Goitia upon Receiving the Abraham Horwitz Award for Excellence in Leadership in Inter-American Public Health (2013)