Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme [IOAC]
The Director-General has established an Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme (IOAC), to provide oversight and monitoring of the development and performance of the Programme and to guide the Programme’s activities.
The Committee will advise the Director-General on issues within its mandate and will report its findings to the World Health Assembly.
Meeting documents and field mission reports
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17 May 2023
A76/8 Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme
This is the eleventh IOAC report to the WHO governing bodies and covers activities from May 2022 to April 2023.
31 March 2023
IOAC Mission report to Malawi 5-8 March 2023
The Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme (IOAC) conducted a field mission to Lilongwe, Malawi from 5-8...
11 May 2022
A75/16 Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme
IOAC statement at the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly, 26 May 2022
10 January 2022
EB150/34 Report of the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme’s...
IOAC statement to present document EB150/34 to the Thirty-fifth Programme Budget and Administration Committee, 20 January 2022IOAC statement to the 150th...
Committee
The Committee consists of eight members drawn from national governments, NGOs, the UN system, with extensive experience in broad range of disciplines. Members serve in their personal capacity and will exercise their responsibilities with full regard for the paramount importance of independence.
Chair
Professor Walid Ammar
Director of the Doctorate and Research in Public Health Program at St. Joseph University in Beirut
Members of the committee
Mr Elhadj As Sy
Former Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Dr Theresa Tam
BMBS (UK), FRCPC, Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada
Dr Felicity Harvey
Visiting Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, former Director General for Public and International Health, HMG UK
Mr Jeremy Konyndyk
President, Refugees International
Professor Samba O. Sow
Director-General of the Center for Vaccine Development
Professor Chris Baggoley
Former Chief Medical Officer, Australian Government
Former members
Ms Malebona Precious Matsoso
Director of the Health Regulatory Science Platform, a division of the Wits Health Consortium at the University of the Witwatersrand
Dr Hiroyoshi Endo
Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Public Health, St.Luke’s International University, Tokyo
Dr Michael Ryan
Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme
Dr Hiroki Nakatani
Professor for Global Initiatives at Keio University
Dr Geeta Rao Gupta
Senior Advisor, 3D Program for Girls and Women and Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation
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