EXECUTIVE BOARD 139th session Provisional agenda item 7.2
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Committees of the Executive Board: filling of vacancies Report by the Secretariat
1. In accordance with resolution EB61.R8 (1978), this report presents for both committees of the Board and the foundation committees a table showing the members who will remain on the Executive Board after closure of the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly and the vacancies to be filled on each committee. It also deals with the appointment of representatives of the Executive Board to the Seventieth World Health Assembly. 2. According to the Board’s consistent practice, if any member of a committee or group is unable to participate in a meeting of the committee or group, his or her successor or the alternate member of the Board designated by the government concerned, in accordance with Rule 2 of the Rules of Procedure of the Executive Board, will participate in the work of the committee or group.
PROGRAMME, BUDGET AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE 3. According to resolution EB131.R2 (2012), the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee should consist of 14 members, namely: two from each region, selected from among Executive Board members. There shall be two office-bearers: the Chairman and a Vice-Chairman. They shall be appointed from among Committee members, for a one-year term, or two sessions of the Committee, in the first instance (with a possibility of extending for a further year if they are still members of the Board). Committee members are to be appointed for a two-year period or until expiry of their membership of the Board, whichever is first. Subsequent appointments should, to the extent possible, be made with a view to renewing half the elected membership each year, that is, one member from each region. 4. The present membership is: Member Dr Mukengeshayi Kupa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Mr Omar Sey (Gambia) Dr Thomas Frieden (United States of America) Vacant Selection criterion African Region African Region Region of the Americas Region of the Americas
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Member Dr Phusit Prakongsai (Thailand) Vacant Professor Benoît Vallet (France) Vacant Dr Ali Saad Al-Obaidi (Kuwait) Vacant Vacant Vacant – –
Selection criterion South-East Asia Region South-East Asia Region European Region European Region Eastern Mediterranean Region Eastern Mediterranean Region Western Pacific Region Western Pacific Region Chairman of Executive Board (ex officio) Vice-Chairman of Executive Board (ex officio)
STANDING COMMITTEE ON NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 5. The Standing Committee is composed of five members: Member Mr Sylvain Segard (Canada) Dr Assad Hafeez (Pakistan) Dr Janette Loreto Garin (Philippines) Vacant Vacant
FOUNDATION COMMITTEES 6. The Director-General is the administrator of 13 foundation prizes and fellowships. The table below shows the committees or panels for which the Executive Board appoints members and the relevant vacancies. Award Léon Bernard Foundation Prize Foundation Committee/Selection Panel Chairman of the Executive Board; Vice-Chairmen of the Executive Board; member of the Executive Board from a Member State of the European Region Foundation Committee: Chairman of the Executive Board; Vice-Chairmen of the Executive Board Selection Panel: Chairman of the Executive Board; member of the Foundation Committee Executive Board member
Vacant
Jacques Parisot Foundation Fellowship
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Award Ihsan Doğramacı Family Health Foundation Fellowship and Prize Sasakawa Health Prize
Foundation Committee/Selection Panel Chairman of the Executive Board; a representative of the International Children’s Center, Ankara; President of Bilkent University, Turkey or his or her appointee Chairman of the Executive Board; member of the Executive Board; representative of the Founder Chairman of the Executive Board; member of the Executive Board from a Member State of the Eastern Mediterranean Region; representative of the Founder
Executive Board member –
Vacant
United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize
Vacant
The State of Kuwait Prize Chairman of the Executive Board; member of for Research in Health the Executive Board from a Member State of Promotion the Eastern Mediterranean Region; representative of the Founder Dr LEE Jong-wook Chairman of the Executive Board; member of Memorial Prize for Public the Executive Board; representative of the Health Founder
Vacant
Dr Janette Loreto Garin (Philippines)
APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD TO THE SEVENTIETH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY 7. In resolution EB59.R7 (1977), the Executive Board decided that the representatives of the Board at the Health Assembly should be the Chairman and three other members of the Board. In resolution EB61.R8 the Executive Board reaffirmed that representatives at the Health Assembly should be selected on the basis of their personal competence and previous attendance at one or more Health Assemblies, and that at least one of the Board’s representatives should use a working language other than English or French. The Board may wish to consider appointing the Chairman and three of the four Vice-Chairmen to represent the Board at the Seventieth World Health Assembly.
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