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The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly convenes 19-27 May, 2025
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Geneva, 5 May 2025—-The Seventy-eighth [https://www.who.int/about/governance/world-health-assembly/78th-world-health-assembly]session of the World Health Assembly (WHA78) will take place from 19-27 May in Geneva, Switzerland. This year’s theme is “One World for Health.”
Member States will review the progress achieved during the past two years, including the results report, the last under the Triple Billion General Programme of Work 13.
Discussions will be forward looking, to focus on prioritization of activities as well as looking at the future with the approval of the first full Programme Budget 2026-2027 under WHO’s Fourteenth General Programme of Work (GPW14), WHO’s strategy for global health for 2025 – 2028. The Health Assembly will be invited to confirm the scheduled increase in the Assessed Contribution as part of WHO’s journey towards sustainable financing.
The Assembly will also consider the proposal by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_1-en.pdf] to adopt the WHO Pandemic Agreement. In addition, the Agenda of this year Assembly contains over 70 other Items.
The Executive Board, which will meet on 28 and 29 May following the Health Assembly will have the election of the next Regional Director for WHO’s African Region on its agenda. See full Agenda of the Executive Board. the 157th meeting of the Executive Board [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69]
The Health Assembly agenda can be found here: ( [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_1-en.pdf]) and all relevant documents will be found on this page ( [https://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_wha78.html]). More information and links here [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69].
WHA78 takes place in a challenging environment. Several actions have been taken by the WHO in an effort to contain costs, including shortening the length of the meeting, limiting evening sessions as well as hospitality and events costs, amongst other administrative cost saving measures.
Side Events:
A limited number of official side events will take place during the World Health Assembly at the Palais the Nations in Geneva from Monday 19 May to Saturday 24 May. These events will be included in the daily journals. More information and a list of events here [https://apps.who.int/gb/Side-Events/WHA78/index.html].
Media and webcast information:
Public meetings of the WHA78 will be webcast live here. [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69]
WHO will provide regular updates from the World Health Assembly via X [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69], YouTube [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69] and Bluesky [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69].
Additional Information:
Working hours of WHA78 are 9:00-12:00 and 14:30-17:30 CEST.
WHO Governance information can be found here [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69].
A daily journal with the Assembly’s provisional agenda and documents [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69] will be available to download.
For the provisional agenda on PDF, scroll down to “Main documents” on this page where all meeting documents are available in six UN languages. The provisional agenda [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69] contains hyperlinks to the meeting documents.
The Health Assembly’s agenda is preceded by the 42nd meeting of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69], which will meet 14-16 May, 2025. After the Assembly, the 157th meeting of the Executive Board [https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/18DFE0FD1CC9DA69] will take place from 28-29 May.
The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. Held annually in Geneva, it is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The Assembly’s main functions are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget.
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