This page provides a list of the annual and quinquennial reports of the Director since 1998.
Annual Report of the Director 2019
The Annual Report of the Director 2019: Advancing the Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030 highlights the technical cooperation undertaken by the Bureau during the period July 2018 through June 2019, within the framework of the Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization 2014-2019, defined by its Governing Bodies and amended by the 29th Pan American Sanitary Conference in 2017. This report is complemented by the Financial Report of the Director and the Report of the External Auditor for the year 2018.
Quinquennial Report of the Director 2013–2017
The Quinquennial Report of the Director 2013–2017 presents some of the highlights of PAHO’s technical cooperation with its Member States over the 2013- 2017 period, within the framework of the PAHO Strategic Plan 2014-2019. To a significant degree, the chapters of the report mirror the six Categories1 and 30 Program Areas of the Strategic Plan, but the report is not strictly organized according to the structure of the Strategic Plan. Selected processes, achievements, innovations, and challenges are presented, related to both the Organization’s programmatic technical cooperation and the PASB’s internal structure, systems, and processes.
Annual Report of the Director 2015
This 2015 annual report highlights the achievements of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) over the past 12 months (July 2014 through June 2015) and describes the cooperation in health between and among PAHO's Member States and PAHO's secretariat, the Pan American Sanitary Bureau ("the Bureau"), which also serves as Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Carissa F. Etienne
Director
Quinquennial Report of the Director 2008-2012
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2008-2012 quinquennial report on the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Americas. The report highlights the Bureau's major work in providing technical cooperation during this period within the framework of the 2008–2012 Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization.
Mirta Roses Periago
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2010. Promoting Health, Well-being and Human Security
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2009–2010 annual report on the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. The report highlights the Bureau's major work in providing technical cooperation during this period within the framework of the 2008–2012 Strategic Plan of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization.
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2009. Progress in Primary Health Care in the Americas
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2008–2009 annual report on the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. The report highlights the Bureau's major work in providing technical cooperation during this period within the framework of the 2008–2012 Strategic Plan of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization.
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago
Director
Annual Report of the Director - 2006: Closing the Gaps in Health in the Least Protected Populations
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor of presenting the 2005–2006 annual report on the activities of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization. The report highlights technical cooperation that has taken place during this period, especially the progress made in reducing gaps in health, to the benefit of the least protected populations, all within the framework of the Strategic Plan for the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, 2003–2007, adopted by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization.
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2004: Health: an essential component of the development goals set forth in the Declaration of the Millennium
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2003-2004 annual report on the activities of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization. The report highlights the major events that have taken place during this period in the course of carrying out the program of technical cooperation within the framework of the Strategic Plan for the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, 2002-2007, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization. This report is supplemented by the Financial Report of the Director and Report of the External Auditor, 1 January 2002-31 December 2003.
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2001. Promoting Health in the Americas
In accordance with the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to submit the 2000–2001 annual report on technical cooperation activities of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization. Within the context of the strategic and programmatic orientations for the 1999–2002 quadrennium, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization, the report analyzes the salient activities of the Organization's technical cooperation program during this period. The report is complemented by the Interim Financial Report of the Director for the Year 2000.
George A. O. Alleyne
Director
Annual Report of the Director 1998. Information for Health
In accordance with the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to submit the 1998 annual report on technical cooperation activities of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization. Within the context of the strategic and programmatic orientations for the 1995-1998 quadrennium, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization, the report analyzes the salient activities of the Organization's technical cooperation program during 1998. The report is complemented by the Interim Financial Report of the Director for the Year 1998.
George A. O. Alleyne
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2018
The Annual Report of the Director 2018 highlights the technical cooperation undertaken by the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, during the period August 2017 through June 2018, within the framework of the 2014-2019 Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization, defined by its Governing Bodies and amended by the Pan American Sanitary Conference in 2017.
This report is complemented by the Financial Report of the Director and the Report of the External Auditor for the year 2017.
Annual Report of the Director 2016. Championing Health for Sustainable Development and Equity: Catalyzing Public Health Action
In accordance with the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2016 annual report on the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. This report highlights the technical cooperation provided by the Bureau during the period July 2015 through June 2016, within the framework of the 2014-2019 Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization, defined by its Governing Bodies.
Carissa F. Etienne
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2013
In accordance with the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2012–2013 annual report on the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. The report highlights the Bureau's major achievements in providing technical cooperation during this period within the framework of the 2008–2013 Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization, defined by its Governing Bodies. The report is complemented by the Financial Report of the Director and the Report of the External Auditor for 2012.
Dr. Carissa F. Etienne
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2011. Health and the Millennium Development Goals: From Commitment to Action
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were endorsed by 189 heads of state at the U.N. Millennium Summit in 2000 and represent a global commitment to making the right to development a reality for everyone. Human health is at the core of the MDG vision, reflecting a consensus that health is both an outcome of and an input to development. The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has been working with its Member States over the past decade to advance the MDGs, especially those related to health. The Annual Report of the Director 2011 highlights PAHO/WHO technical cooperation in 2010-2011 aimed at accelerating progress toward the MDGs in the Region of the Americas.
Annual Report of the Director 2008. Planning Public Health Action
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2007–2008 annual report on the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization. The report highlights the Bureau's major work in providing technical cooperation during this period within the framework of the 2003–2007 and 2008–2012 Strategic Plans of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization.
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago
Director
Quinquennial report of the Director 2003-2007
As mandated by the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor of submitting the Quinquennial Report 2003-2007 on the activities of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization. The report analyzes the most relevant information on compliance with the technical cooperation program during this period, within the framework of the strategic and programmatic orientations defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization for the quinquennium 2003-2007.
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2005. Working Together for the Health of the Americas
In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2004-2005 annual report on the activities of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization. The report highlights the major events that have taken place during the period in the course of carrying out the program of technical cooperation within the framework of the Strategic Plan for the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, 2003-2007, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization.
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago
Director
Quadrennial Report of the Director 1998 - 2002, Centennial Edition, Charting the Future for Health in the Americas
Charting a Future for Health in the Americas describes the work of the Pan American Health Organization in recent years. The report opens with a disquisition on the significance of its title-how PAHO has had, and will continue to need, to chart and steer a steady course, dealing with and even capitalizing on
changes along the way, in order to reach its goal: health in the Americas.
George A. O. Alleyne
Director
Annual Report of the Director 2000. Advancing the People's Health
In accordance with the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to submit the 1999-2000 annual report on technical cooperation activities of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization. Within the context of the strategic and programmatic orientations for the 1999-2002 quadrennium, defined by the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization, the report analyzes the salient activities of the Organization's technical cooperation program during this period. The report is complemented by the Interim Financial Report of the Director for the Year 1999.
George A. O. Alleyne
Director