Report of the Regional Director on the work of WHO in the European Region in 2010-2011

About this report

This report presents WHO’s work in Europe in 2010–2011 from two different directions. The next section examines overarching priorities of the Regional Office’s work, while subsequent sections address particular technical areas. As the whole Office pursues the Regional Director’s vision, these horizontal and vertical views overlap to some extent, although the report tries to keep this to a minimum.

While addressing the wide range of the Regional Office’s work, this report does not present a detailed account of the implementation of technical programmes in the Region. That information is available from the Regional Office web site (1) and from the Secretariat upon request. This report concentrates on the major actions and changes implemented in the Regional Office in 2010–2011 and therefore resents highlights of its work. In addition, as the Regional Office works at three levels – global and interregional (including with WHO headquarters and other regional offices), and with countries at the regional or subregional level (including activities with networks) and individually (including with country offices) – most of the work described in this report involves activities on at least two of these levels.

(1) The web site (http://www.euro.who.int/en/home) provides information on the whole range of the Regional Office’s work