Date: 5/18/2011
TUMSPR News: At the sixty-fourth World Health Assembly held in Switzerland on May 16 and 17, 2011, the assembly selected its president and five vice-presidents, including Dr. Mohammad Hossein Niknam, one of TUMS faculty members and the director of the International Relations Office of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education.
At the sixty-fourth World Health Assembly held in Switzerland on May 16 and 17, 2011, the Assembly selected its president and five vice-presidents, including Dr. Mohammad Hossein Niknam, one of TUMS faculty members and the director of the International Relations Office of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education.
The 64th World Health Assembly which had started by the opening remarks pointing to its achievements in recent years, and the need to remain alert and committed to reaching the targets for healthier communities worldwide, continued by appointing the Assembly's president, Dr. Christos Patsalides, Director of the Ministry of Health for Cyprus, as well as five vice presidents from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Trinidad and Tobago, representing their respective regions.
WHO was established in 1943 with the goal to promote health and ease the burden of disease all over the world. The Organization sets its goals and priorities based on the suggestions from the 193 Member States it is designed to serve. Each year, senior health officials from all these Member States go to Geneva to participate in the World Health Assembly. It is at the Health Assembly that WHO's work is reviewed, new goals are set, and new tasks assigned.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=24584
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