EXECUTIVE BOARD 118th Session Provisional agenda item 6.2
EB118/9 11 May 2006
Committees of the Executive Board: filling of vacancies Report by the Secretariat
1. In accordance with resolution EB61.R8, 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 Fifty-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 Sixtieth 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. In resolution EB114.R4, the Executive Board established the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee consisting of 14 members, namely: two from each of WHO’s six regions together with the Chairman and a Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, members ex officio. Members are to be appointed for a two-year period or until expiry of their membership of the Board, whichever expires 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 WHO region. 4. The present membership is: Member Vacant Dr J.D. Ntawukuliryayo (Rwanda) Vacant Mr J.A. Junor (Jamaica) Vacant Dr A.M. Ali Mohammed Salih (Iraq) Selection criterion African Region African Region Region of the Americas Region of the Americas Eastern Mediterranean Region Eastern Mediterranean Region
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Member Vacant Professor J. Pereira Miguel (Portugal) Vacant Dr J. Singay (Bhutan) Vacant Dr V. Tangi (Tonga) -
Selection criterion European Region European Region South-East Asia Region South-East Asia 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 O.K. Shiraliyev (Azerbaijan) Vacant Vacant Vacant Vacant
FOUNDATION COMMITTEES 6. The Director-General is the administrator of 14 foundation prizes and fellowships. The table below shows the committees or panels for which the Executive Board appoints members and the relevant vacancies. Award Darling Foundation Prize Léon Bernard Foundation Prize Committee/Selection Panel Chairman of the Executive Board; Vice-Chairmen of the Executive Board; Chairman of Expert Committee on Malaria Chairman of the Executive Board; Vice-Chairmen of the Executive Board; member of the Executive Board from a Member State of the European Region (Dr D. Hansen-Koenig, Luxembourg) Vacancies -
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Award Jacques Parisot Foundation Fellowship
Committee/Selection Panel Committee: Chairman of the Executive Board; Vice-Chairmen of the Executive Board; member of the Executive Board (Mr M.E. Nicolaescu, Romania) Selection Panel: Chairman of the Executive Board; member of the Foundation Committee (Mr M.E Nicolaescu, Romania)
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Ihsan Dogramaci Family Health Foundation Fellowship and Prize The State of Kuwait Prize for Research in Health Promotion
Chairman of the Executive Board; a representative of the International Children’s Centre, Ankara; President of Bilkent University or his or her appointee State of Kuwait Health Promotion Foundation Selection Panel: Chairman of the Executive Board; member of the Executive Board from a Member State of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (Dr N.A. Haffadh, Bahrain); representative of the Founder Chairman of the Executive Board; member of the Executive Board (Dr V. Tangi, Tonga); representative of the Founder Chairman of the Executive Board; member of the Executive Board from a Member State of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (Dr N.A. Haffadh, Bahrain); representative of the Founder
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Sasakawa Health Prize
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United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize
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APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD TO THE SIXTIETH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY 7. In resolution EB59.R7, 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 Health Assembly.
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