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Coverage of the 59th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization

73rd Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas
-Virtual Session, 20-24 September 2021-  

 

 

The Council meets once a year in those years when the Conference does not meet. It acts on behalf of the Conference between sessions of the Conference.

 

 

 

Provisional agenda

 

Documents

 

 

 

The Directing Council day by day:

 

20

Sep - 2021

Monday

 

 

Recording of the session

Recording of the session (Floor audio) 

 

 

21

Sep - 2021

Tuesday

 

 

Recording of the session

Recording of the session (Floor audio)

Recording of the side event session:
Technology Transfer for the Production of mRNA Vaccines

 

22

Sep - 2021

Wednesday

 

 

Recording of the session

Recording of the session (Floor audio)

Recording of the side event session:
A Comprehensive Response in Health and the Economy to the Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic | Floor audio

 

23

Sep - 2021

Thursday

 

 

Recording of the session 

Recording of the session (Floor audio) 

 

 

24

Sep - 2021

Friday

 

 

Recording of the session

Recording of the session (Floor audio)

 

Annual Report of the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau

Working through the COVID-19 pandemic

Link to report

Remarks

Carissa F. Etienne, Director PAHO/WHO
 

Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, opening remarks at the 59th Directing Council

Opening remarks | Presentation of the Annual Report | Closing remarks

 

Xavier Becerra, US Secretary of Health and Human Services

 

Luis Almagro, Scretary General, OAS
 

Luis Almagro, General Secretary of the OAS

Opening remarks (in Spanish)

Mauricio Claver-Carone, President of the IDB
 

Opening Remarks (in Spanish)

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General WHO
 

Dr. Tedros, Director General WHO

Opening remarks

 

Photo Gallery

Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director PAHO/WHO

Carissa F. Etienne, Director PAHO/WHO

Link to photo collection in Flickr
 

Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile

Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile

President of the 59th DC, Christopher Tufton

Christopher Tufton, President of the 59th DC

Jamaican Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton, President of the Pan American Health Organization’s 59th Directing Council.
Jamaican Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton, President of the Pan American Health Organization’s 59th Directing Council.
From left to right: Dr. Daniel Salas, Minister of Health of Costa Rica, Dr. Carlos Salguero, Advisor to the Minister of Health of Costa Rica, Dra. María Dolores Pérez, PAHO/WHO Representative in Costa Rica, and Lic. Adriana Salazar, Chief International Relations Minister of Health of Costa Rica.
From left to right: Dr. Daniel Salas, Minister of Health of Costa Rica, Dr. Carlos Salguero, Advisor to the Minister of Health of Costa Rica, Dra. María Dolores Pérez, PAHO/WHO Representative in Costa Rica, and Lic. Adriana Salazar, Chief International Relations Minister of Health of Costa Rica.
59th Directing Council participants in room B.

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