Special programme for research and training in tropical diseases : Joint Coordinating Board (Resolution)

REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE (8) organize a meeting between the most appropriate individuals in Member States holding posts equivalent to that of director or leader of a national medical research council; 4. REQUESTS the Regional Director to tmplement the above-mentioned recommendations; 27 5. AUTHORIZES the Regional Director, should additional funds be forthcoming, to allocate them, with the concurrence of the Western Pacific Advisory Committee on Medical Research, to research activities which conform to the objectives of the regional programme, reporting on their use to the subsequent session of the Regional Committee; 6. REQUESTS Member States to: (1) establish appropriate codes and regulatory mechanisms to ensure that medical research is conducted according to ethical principles; (2) provide career structures which permit research workers to devote their ttme fully to research and which attract young workers. WPR/RC29 • RII Seventh meeting, 24 August 1978 SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN TROPICAL DISEASES: JOINT COORDINATING BOARD The Regional Committee, In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding on the Advministrative and Technical Structures of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases,l SELECTS as the two Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region whose representatives shall be members of the Joint Coordinating Board, the Philippines, for a period of two years up to 31 December 1979 and Malaysia, for a period of three years up to 31 December 1980, commencing on I January 1978. WPR/RC29.R12 Seventh meeting, 24 August 1978 REGIONAL COORDINATING GROUP ON THE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME The Regional Committee, Realizing the growing world-wide concern for problems of mental health, not least the importance of psychosocial factors in relation to health as expressed in resolutions WHA27.53 and WHA29.2l; lDocument WPR/RC29/12 and Add.l. REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE (8) organize a meeting between the most appropriate individuals in Member States holding posts equivalent to that of director or leader of a national medical research council; 4. REQUESTS the Regional Director to tmplement the above-mentioned recommendations; 27 5. AUTHORIZES the Regional Director, should additional funds be forthcoming, to allocate them, with the concurrence of the Western Pacific Advisory Committee on Medical Research, to research activities which conform to the objectives of the regional programme, reporting on their use to the subsequent session of the Regional Committee; 6. REQUESTS Member States to: (1) establish appropriate codes and regulatory mechanisms to ensure that medical research is conducted according to ethical principles; (2) provide career structures which permit research workers to devote their ttme fully to research and which attract young workers. WPR/RC29 • RII Seventh meeting, 24 August 1978 SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN TROPICAL DISEASES: JOINT COORDINATING BOARD The Regional Committee, In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding on the Advministrative and Technical Structures of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases,l SELECTS as the two Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region whose representatives shall be members of the Joint Coordinating Board, the Philippines, for a period of two years up to 31 December 1979 and Malaysia, for a period of three years up to 31 December 1980, commencing on I January 1978. WPR/RC29.R12 Seventh meeting, 24 August 1978 REGIONAL COORDINATING GROUP ON THE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME The Regional Committee, Realizing the growing world-wide concern for problems of mental health, not least the importance of psychosocial factors in relation to health as expressed in resolutions WHA27.53 and WHA29.2l; lDocument WPR/RC29/12 and Add.l.