EXECUTIVE BOARD EB156/1 (draft)
156th session 2 July 2024
Geneva, 3–11 February 2025
Draft provisional agenda
1. Opening of the session and adoption of the agenda
2. Report by the Director-General
3. Report of the regional committees to the Executive Board
4. Report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board
5. Report of the Standing Committee on Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and
Response
Pillar 1: One billion more people benefiting from universal health coverage
6. Universal health coverage
• Primary health care
7. Follow-up to the political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General
Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
• Reducing the burden of noncommunicable diseases through strengthening prevention
and control of diabetes
• Oral health
• Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2030
• Global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem
and its associated goals and targets for the period 2020–2030
8. Global road map on defeating meningitis by 2030
9. Substandard and falsified medical products
10. Standardization of medical devices nomenclature
11. Health and care workforce
• WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
• Global strategy on human resources for health: workforce 2030
12. Draft global traditional medicine strategy (2025–2034)