PAHO - Historical Summary. Presentation organized by Jose Romero Teruel Juan Manuel Sotelo. GLOBAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL ADVISORS ghiadvisors.

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1 PAHO - Historical Summary Presentation organized by Jose Romero Teruel Juan Manuel Sotelo GLOBAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL ADVISORS ghiadvisors.org

2 The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO; originally the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau) is an international public health agency working to improve health and living standards of the people of the Americas. It was founded in December It is part of the United Nations system, serving as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, and as the health organization of the Inter-American System (OAS). OAS PAHO WHO

3 Ethiopia s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO - D.G. Dominica s Carissa F. Etienne Reelected PAHO s R.D. for a Second Term of 5 years Dr. Etienne - Universal health coverage is a powerful concept and a powerful movement. It is a process rather than a finite goal, but it is essential to advancing health as both a human right and a crucial component of development.

4 Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, inauguration of her second term as PAHO s Director on 2/1/2018 and Dr. Habib Latiri, President of GHIA (Global Health International Advisors)

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7 Historical origin of the OAS and PAHO In 1890 the First International Conference of American States, held in Washington, DC., had established the International Union of American Republics (today the Organization of American States) for the initial purpose of collecting and disseminating commercial information. The Second Conference held in Mexico City in October 1901, recommended that the International Union call a "general convention of representatives of the health organizations of the different American republics" to formulate "sanitary agreements and regulations" and to periodically hold health conventions. The general convention should also "designate a permanent executive board of not less than five members" to be know as the "International Sanitary Bureau" with headquarters at Washington, DC. The First General International Sanitary Convention of the American Republics, whose purpose was to assure effective cooperation in promoting health in the Americas, was held in Washington, DC, from 2 to 5 December 1902 with representatives of 11 countries present. Their determination gave birth to what was to become the oldest, continuously functioning international health agency in the world: The Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB).

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9 The first seven members of the Bureau Top: Dr. A. H. Doty (United States), Dr. Juan J. Ulloa (Costa Rica) y Dr. Eduardo Moore (Chile) Center: Dr. Walter Wyman (United States) Surgeon General y primer Director Lower: Dr. Juan Guiteras (Cuba); Dr. Eduardo Liceaga (México); y Dr. Rhett Goode (United States).

10 These gentlemen, meeting in Havana in 1924, drafted the first treaty of any kind to be signed by all the American republics, the Pan American Sanitary Code, which continues in force today.

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12 1945 The United Nations Conference in San Francisco, USA, unanimously approves the establishment of a new, autonomous international health organization proposed by Brazil and China and endorsed by all countries.

13 1946 The International Health Conference in New York approves the Constitution of the World Health Organization in July.

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15 Relations: PAHO with WHO and the OAS On 24 May 1949, the first Director-General of WHO Dr. Brock Chisholm, and the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Dr. Soper, signed an agreement formally establishing the relationships between the two organizations. As a result the Bureau was converted into the Regional Office of the World Health Organization, while at the same time maintaining its identity as the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. To clarify their respective roles, the Pan American Health Organization and the Organization of American States signed an agreement in 1950 that established PAHO as a specialized inter-american organization; - including commitment by PAHO to take into account of the recommendations by the OAS Council.

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17 The oldest international health agency in continuous existence Pan American Health Organization Pan American Sanitary Bureau Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization