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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) in charge of international health cooperation in the Americas. It fosters technical cooperation among member countries to fight communicable and noncommunicable diseases, strengthen health systems, and respond to emergencies and disasters.
Brazil, Argentina, and Chile were engaged in a hospital accreditation program in the 1990s in collaboration with PAHO. [3] [4] Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) [3]
A ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization, in the Palace of Nations (Geneva, Switzerland).. The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).
Etienne was the Assistant Director of PAHO from 2003 to 2008. [6] She served as the Assistant Director-General of Health Systems and Services at the World Health Organization in 2008–12. [7] [8] She was elected PAHO director in September 2012 and took up the position, which has a five-year term, in February 2013. [8]
A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government , a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken geopolitical system (such as a state ) by establishing laws .
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the legislative and supreme body of the WHO. Based in Geneva, it typically meets yearly in May. Based in Geneva, it typically meets yearly in May. It appoints the director-general every five years and votes on matters of policy and finance of WHO, including the proposed budget.
Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. is a public health expert from Brazil who is currently serving as the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO); his five-year term in this position starting on 1 February 2023.
The Global Certification Commission is the top-level decision-making body of a three-tier process. Each WHO member state's national polio program appoints a National Certification Committee (NCC). These NCCs meet annually until national certification to report on the status of national polio surveillance and elimination.