Forty-ninth Regional Committee for Europe: Florence, 13 - 17 September 1999: membership of the Executive Board and various other committees

W O R L D H E A LT H O R G A N IZ A T IO N Re g io n a l O ffice for Eu r o pe C o pe n h a g en REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR EUROPE Forty-ninth session, Florence, 1 3 – 17 September 1999 Provisional agenda item 4(f) EUR/RC49/5 A d d .1 22 July 1999 10259 ORIGINAL: EN GLISH M e m b e r s h ip o f t h e E x e c u t iv e B o a r d a n d V a r io u s O t h e r C o m m it t e e s European Environm ent and Health Comm ittee (EEHC) The Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health - the London Conference - decided that the EEHC should continue as an advisory body for a further five years according to the terms of reference laid down in paragraph 27 of the Helsinki Declaration, and supplemented by additional functions laid down in the London Declaration. The London Conference also agreed that the W HO Regional Committee for Europe should appoint five country representatives and that membership of the EEHC should be for a two- year period, with a possibility of reappointment once. The forty-ninth session of the Regional Committee should therefore appoint five members to the EEHC. The Regional Director, in his letter of 26 April 1999, invited Member States to submit nominations for membership of the EEHC by 16 July 1999. This document contains the curricula vitae of candidates nominated by the governments o f Hungary, Ireland, K yrgyzstan, Turkey and the United Kingdom, which were received at the Regional Office by 16 July 1999. It will be recalled that representatives of Finland, Hungary, Netherlands and the United Kingdom previously held membership of the EEHC. EUR/RC49/5 Add.l page 1 Cu r r ic u lu m V itae Family nam e ............ PINTER................First/Other nam es....................................A lan.......................................... Present nationality ... Hungarian..........Male/Female..... M ...... Date of birth ......27 August 1943...................... Language abilities: please indicate in which of the Regional Committee working languages the nominee is able to function effectively N o m in a t io n f o r M e m b e r s h ip o f t h e E u r o p e a n E n v ir o n m e n t a n d H e a l t h C o m m it t e e Speak Read Write English X X X French X German X X X Russian X Professional education: name (up to 5) most important professional degrees taken Year Medical doctor.......................................................................................................................................................1967 Specialization in human pathology and histopathology.................................................................................1971 Ph.D. degree......................................................................................................................................................... 1985 Specialization in public health............................................................................................................................ 1994 Professorship in public hea lth ............................................................................................................................ 1996 Professional career: name (up to 5) most important positions held Year (start/end) Pathologist, Municipal Hospital, Budapest............................................................................................ 1967-1974 Research scientist, National Institute of Public Health........................................................................ 1974-1986 Deputy Director, National Institute of Public Health.............................................................................1986-1997 Director, National Institute of Environmental Health......................................................................... 1998 to date Experience of working for and with international organizations Member of Working Groups for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyons, France (14 years)........................................................................................................................................... Member of Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (5 years)..................................................... Director, International Union of Toxicology (2 consecutive te rm s)....................................................................... Experience of acting as Chairperson of high-level political and technical committees at national and/or international level Secretary General, Union of Hungarian Toxicologists Chairperson at Working Groups at International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyons, France Chairperson, Intergovernmental Meeting to consider the Draft Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes Name and position of person making nomination Arpad Gogl, M inister of Health EUR/RC49/5 Add.l page 2 Cu r r ic u lu m V itae Family nam e............ MOONEY............ First/Other nam es....................................T om .......................................... Present nationality ... Irish ..................... Male/Female......M ...... Date of birth..... 13 October 1945.................... Language abilities: please indicate in which of the Regional Committee working languages the nominee is able to function effectively N o m in a t io n f o r M e m b e r s h ip o f t h e E u r o p e a n E n v ir o n m e n t a n d H e a l t h C o m m it t e e Speak Read Write English X X X French German Russian Professional education: name (up to 5) most important professional degrees taken Year Bachelor of Com m erce................................................................................................................................................. M.Sc. in statistics............................................................................................................................................................ M.Sc. in econom ics....................................................................................................................................................... Professional career: name (up to 5) most important positions held Year (start/end) Analyst, Planning Unit, Department of Health........................................................................................................... Principal, General Hospitals Policy............................................................................................................................. Assistant Secretary, Contingency Care Services.................................................................................................... Assistant Secretary, Primary Care (including Environmental Health Services).................................................. Experience of working for and with international organizations Permanent Correspondent from Ireland to Pompidou Group of Council of Europe.......................................... Irish representative to United Nations on drug abuse............................................................................................. Irish representative to United Nations on population and developm ent.............................................................. Long-term member of European Hospitals Committee........................................................................................... Current member, European Medicines Evaluation Agency.................................................................................... Experience of acting as Chairperson of high-level political and technical committees at national and/or international level Acts as chair in a wide range of capacities including national groups on smoking controls, orthodontics, primary care services and sexual health Chair of EU Presidency meetings and Chair of Environmental Health Group at WHO Name and position of person making nomination EUR/RC49/5 Add.l page 3 Cu r r ic u lu m V itae Family nam e ............G LINENKO .........First/Other nam es....................................Victor M ikhailovich................ Present nationality ... Kyrgyz.................Male/Female......M .......Date of birth ......4 May 19 4 7 ............................. Language abilities: please indicate in which of the Regional Committee working languages the nominee is able to function effectively N o m in a t io n f o r M e m b e r s h ip o f t h e E u r o p e a n E n v ir o n m e n t a n d H e a l t h C o m m it t e e Speak Read Write English X X French German Russian X X X Professional education: name (up to 5) most important professional degrees taken Year Kyrgyz State Medical Institute.............................................................................................................................1972 WHO international courses................................................................................................................................. 1993 Individual WHO courses on the Expanded Programme of Immunization................................................... 1996 Candidate of Medical Sciences.......................................................................................................................... 1998 Professional career: name (up to 5) most important positions held Year (start/end) Head, Department of Particularly Hazardous Infections, Regional Sanitary and Epidemiological Centre.................................................................................. 1981-1983 Consultant on organization of a sanitary and epidemiological service, Ministry of Health, Mongolian People’s Republic................................................................................................................ 1984-1985 Senior Physician, Regional Sanitary and Epidemiological Centre, Chui reg ion.............................1985-1994 First Deputy Minister of Health.............................................................................................................. 1994 to date Experience of working for and with international organizations Head of Kyrgyzstan delegation to the World Health Assem bly....................................................................1996 Head of Kyrgyzstan delegation to the Regional Committee for Europe..................................................... 1998 Short-term consultant at a number of WHO meetings on NEHAPs and EPI Experience of acting as Chairperson of high-level political and technical committees at national and/or international level Chairman, Joint session of the Regional Offices for Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean on immunization programmes.......................................................................................................................... 1998 Co-Director, National Environment and Health Action Plan, Kyrgyzstan National Coordinator, WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization Name and position of person making nomination Naken Kasiev, M inister of Health EUR/RC49/5 Add.l page 4 Cu r r ic u lu m V itae Family nam e.............GOLER ..................First/Other nam es...................................... Cagatay.................................... Present nationality ...Turk ish ................Male/Female......M .......Date of birth......1 October 1951 ...................... Language abilities: please indicate in which of the Regional Committee working languages the nominee is able to function effectively N o m in a t io n f o r M e m b e r s h ip o f t h e E u r o p e a n E n v ir o n m e n t a n d H e a l t h C o m m it t e e Speak Read Write English X X X French German Russian Professional education: name (up to 5) most important professional degrees taken Year Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University........................................................................................................1975 Turkish Speciality Board Certificate in Public Health...................................................................................... 1982 Ph.D. in public health ............................................................................................................................................1987 Associate Professor, Medical School of Hacettepe University, Ankara.......................................................1988 Full Professor, Medical School of Hacettepe University, Ankara..................................................................1996 Professional career: name (up to 5) most important positions held Year (start/end) Director, Gulsehir Health Research and Training Area...................................................................................1978 Public Health Expert, PHC Directorate, Ministry of H ea lth .................................................................1982-1983 Director of Health, Ordu Province (population over 100 000)............................................................ 1983-1984 Faculty Member........................................................................................................................................ 1983 to date Deputy Director, Institute of Public H ea lth .......................................................................................... 1993 to date Experience of working fo r and w ith international organizations Organization and planning of PHC in developing countries, WHO, Alma-Ata............................................1983 National Health administration, JICA, Japan .................................................................................................. 1994 Adviser, PHC, Kyrgyzstan ...................................................................................................................................1995 Adviser, first national health project, UNDP.......................................................................................... 1991, 1992 Adviser, second national health project, UNDP...............................................................................................1998 NEHAP, Head of environmental health committee, UNDP............................................................................ 1997 NEHAP meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria, representative of Ministry of Health........................................................ 1998 Experience of acting as Chairperson of high-level political and technical committees at national and/or international level Head, Environmental Health Education Committee, Ministry of Health Head, Distance education programme for environmental health technicians, Ministry of Health Chief editor of environmental health technical book series Head of some technical committees on environmental health, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Environment Name and position of person making nomination EUR/RC49/5 Add.l page 5 C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e Family nam e............ DONALDSON .... First/Other nam es....................................Liam Joseph............................ Present nationality ... B ritish..................Male/Female......M .......Date of birth......3 May 1949 .................................. Language abilities: please indicate in which of the Regional Committee working languages the nominee is able to function effectively N o m in a t io n f o r M e m b e r s h ip o f t h e E u r o p e a n E n v ir o n m e n t a n d H e a l t h C o m m it t e e Speak Read Write English X X X French German Russian Professional education: name (up to 5) most important professional degrees taken Year MB Ch.B. University of Bristol.............................................................................................................................1972 M.Sc. (Anatomy) University of B irm ingham..................................................................................................... 1976 MD University of Leicester.................................................................................................................................. 1982 FRCS(Ed) Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.........................................................................................1976 FFPHM Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians................................................... 1986 Professional career: name (up to 5) most important positions held Year (start/end) Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom......................................................................................1998 to date Regional Director and Director of Public Health, National Health Service Executive.................... 1994-1998 Honorary Professor of Applied Epidemiology, University of Newcastle upon T yn e .................... 1989 to date Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, University of Leicester....................................................................1982-1986 Experience of working for and with international organizations The Government’s Chief Medical Officer is responsible for, among other things, representing the United Kingdom on health matters within the European Community and the wider international field. Professor Donaldson has a record of achievement and experience in public health, health management, health care and academic medicine and has undertaken international representative work on behalf of the National Health Service and Department of Health - most recently in Japan, Montserrat and Thailand - on health or health care policy matters. Experience of acting as Chairperson of high-level political and technical committees at national and/or international level Extensive experience of influencing and participating in policy development within government and with national professional bodies. Also of chairing and leading numerous regional and national groups in the United Kingdom. Regular work with ministers. Proven expertise in implementing major change in a complex, political environment. Author of numerous books, papers and chapters in the public health field. Name and position of person making nomination Dr J.S. Metters, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health