WHO and the European Commission agree future common action in key areas
Senior officials and technical experts from WHO and the European Commission met to outline and agree how the two partnering organizations will work more closely together in priority areas of shared interests.
The senior officials of the two organizations agreed on strategic cooperation on health security, health innovation, health systems, health information, health inequalities and country collaboration.
This cooperation may take diverse forms – from exchange of information and views to joint advocacy work and implementation of activities. An administrative agreement between the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and WHO/Europe was also signed in Brussels, and the EC and WHO finalized road maps for implementing the commitments they had made in a joint declaration, “A shared vision for joint action”, that was signed at the WHO Regional Committee for Europe's session in Moscow in September 2010.
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