55th Directing Council

68th Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas

Washington, D.C., 26-30 September 2016

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.

Official Documents | Working Documents
Information Documents | Resolutions | Diverse Documents

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Final Report

• pdf CD55/FR  
  - Final Report

Official Documents

Official Document 351
- Financial Report of the Director and Report of the External Auditor for 2015

 Working Documents

• CD55/1, Rev. 2
  - Agenda
  
  
• pdf CD55/2
  -  Annual Report of the President of the Executive Committee
  
  
• CD55/3
  - Annual Report of the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
  
  
• CD55/4 
  - Election of Three Member States to the Executive Committee on the Expiration of the Periods of Office of Bahamas, Costa Rica, and Ecuador
  
  
• CD55/5
  - Report of the End-of-biennium Assessment of the Program and Budget 2014-2015/First Interim Report on the PAHO Strategic Plan 2014-2019
  
  
• CD55/6
  - Interim Assessment of the Implementation of the PAHO Budget Policy
  
  
• CD55/7
  - Methodology for the Programmatic Priorities Stratification Framework of the PAHO Strategic Plan
  
  
• CD55/8, Rev. 1
  - Framework of Engagement with non-State Actors
  
  
• CD55/9
  - Resilient Health Systems
  
  
• pdf CD55/10, Rev.1,
  - Access and Rational Use of Strategicand High-cost Medicines and Other Health Technologies
  
  
• CD55/11, Rev.1
  - Health of Migrants
  
  
• pdf CD55/12, Rev. 1
  - Implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR)
  
  
• CD55/13
  - Plan of Action for Malaria Elimination 2016-2020
  
  
• CD55/14
  - Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections 2016-2021
  
  
• CD55/15
  - Plan of Action for the Elimination of Neglected Infectious Diseases and Post-elimination Actions 2016-2022
  
  
• CD55/16
  - Strategy for Arboviral Disease Prevention and Control
  
  
• CD55/17, Rev. 1
  - Plan of Action for Disaster Risk Reduction 2016-2021
  
  
• CD55/18, Rev. 1
  - Analysis of the Mandates of the Pan American Health Organization
  
  
• CD55/19 and  pdf Add. I  
  - Report on the Collection of Assessed Contributions
  
  
• CD55/20
  - Update on the Appointment of the External Auditor of PAHO for 2018-2019 and 2020-2021
  
  
• CD55/21
  - PAHO Award for Administration (2016)
  
  
• CD55/22
  - PAHO Award for Administration: Changes to Procedures

Information Documents

• CD55/INF/1 
  - PAHO Program and Budget 2016-2017: Mechanisms for Interim Reporting to Member States
  
  
• CD55/INF/2, Rev.1
  - Process for the Development of the WHO Program Budget 2018-2019
  
  
• pdf CD55/INF/3
  - Update on WHO Reform
  
  
• pdf CD55/INF/3, Add. I
  - WHO's Work in Health Emergency Management: WHO Health Emergencies Program
  
  
• CD55/INF/4
  - Update on the Zika Virus in the Region of the Americas
  
  
• pdf CD55/INF/5
  - Millenium Development Goals and Health Targets: Final Report
  
  
• CD55/INF/6
  - Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Region of the Americas
  
  
• CD55/INF/6, Add. I
  - Report on the Development of the Roadmap on: The Role of the Health Sector in the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management Towards the 2020 Goal and Beyond
  
  
• CD55/INF/7
  - Regional Plan of Action for Strengthening Vital and Health Statistics: Final Report
  
  
• CD55/INF/8, Rev. 1
  - Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Nutrition in Health and Development, 2006-2015: Final Report
  
  
• CD55/INF/9
  - Strategy and Plan of Action for the Reduction of Chronic Malnutrition: Final Report
  
  
• CD55/INF/10, Rev. 1
  - Plan of Action for Maintaining Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Elimination in the Region of the Americas: Final Report
  
  
• CD55/INF/11
  - Regional Strategy and Plan of Action for Neonatal Health within the Continuum of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Care: Final Report
  
  
• pdf CD55/INF/12
  - Progress Reports on Technical Matters:
  
  A. - Strategy and Plan of Action on eHealth: Midterm Review
  
  B. - Plan of Action on Adolescent and Youth Health
  
  C. - Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases: Midterm Review
  
  D. - Plan of Action to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol: Midterm Review
  
  E. - Plan of Action on Psychoactive Substance Use and Public Health: Midterm Review
  
  F. -  pdf Status of the Pan American Centers
  
  
• pdf CD55/INF/13
  - Resolutions and Other Actions of Intergovernmental Organizations of Interest to PAHO:
  

  A. - 69th World Health Assembly

  B. - Forty-sixth Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States

  C. - Subregional Organizations

Resolutions

- pdf CD55.R1
- Collection of Assessed Contributions

- pdf CD55.R2
- Methodology for the Programmatic Priorities Stratification Framework of the PAHO Strategic Plan

- pdf CD55.R3
- Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors

- pdf CD55/R4
- Election of Three Member States to the Executive Committee on the Expiration of the Periods of Office of Bahamas, Costa Rica, and Ecuador

- pdf CD55.R5
- Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections 2016-2021

- pdf CD55.R6
- Strategy for Arboviral Disease Prevention and Control

- pdf CD55.R7
- Plan of Action for Malaria Elimination 2016-2020

- pdf CD55.R8
- Resilient Health Systems

- pdf CD55.R9
- Plan of Action for the Elimination of Neglected Infectious Diseases and Post-elimination Actions 2016-2022

- pdf CD55.R10
- Plan of Action for Disaster Risk Reduction 2016-2021

- pdf CD55.R11
- Analysis of the Mandates of the Pan American Health Organization

-  pdf CD55.R12
- Access and Rational Use of Strategic and High-cost Medicines and Other Health Technologies

- pdf CD55.R13
- Health of Migrants

Diverse Documents

-  pdf CD55/DIV/1
- Opening Remarks by the Outgoing President of the PAHO Directing Council, Dr. Violeta Menjívar, Minister of Health of El Salvador

-  pdf CD55/DIV/2
- 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 CD55/DIV/3
- Opening Remarks by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization

-  pdf CD55/DIV/4
- Opening Remarks by Mrs. Ideli Salvatti, Secretary of Access to Rights and Equity of the Organization of American States

- pdf CD55/DIV/5
- Opening Remarks by Hon. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America

-  pdf CD55/DIV/6
- Opening Remarks by Mr. Ferdinando Regalia, Social Protection and Health Division Chief, Inter-American DevelopJment Bank

-  pdf CD55/DIV/7
- Annual Report of the Director 2015-2016, "Championing Health for Sustainable Development and Equity: Catalyzing Public Health Action" by Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization

-  pdf CD55/DIV/8
- Address by Dr. Pastor Castell-Florit Serrate upon receiving the PAHO Award for Administration (2016)

-  pdf CD55/DIV/9
- Remarks by Dr. Merceline Dahl-Regis, President of the International Expert Committee for the Verification of Measles and Rubella Elimination

-  pdf CD55/DIV/10
- Words of Gratitude from Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, after receiving the Declaration of Measles Elimination

-  pdf CD55/DIV/11
- Closing Remarks by Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau

- pdf CD55/DIV/12
- Decisions

-  pdf CD55/LP
- List of Participants