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1. Scientific and Technical Activities of the
International Committee of Military Medicine

2. 1920 Captain William S. BAINBRIDGE, MD (US Navy) and
Commandant Médecin Jules VONCKEN (Belgique)
are the Founding Fathers of the Permanent Committee
of International Congresses of Military Medicine and Pharmacy
(PCICMMP), which became ICMMP in 1938 and ICMM in 1990

3. Share of scientific knowledge.
Affirmation of the Main Objective of the new
Committee:

4. Key-word: communication
MAIN OBJECTIVE OF I.C.M.M.
a point of convergence,
the only one of its kind in the world
Member
States
Member
States

5. Share of scientific knowledge:
extension and addition to congresses
Before, an insert had been awarded, since 1931, in the Belgian review

6. Training:
sharing knowledge,
benefiting by the experience and the expertise of the others.

7. General
Assembly
General
Assembly
Secretariat
General
Secretariat
General
Objectives: forum - training - assessment
of disasters - definition of national advisers - evolution of IHL
Recommandations
Resolutions
Implementation
Review,
Web-site
Review,
Web-site
Courses,
guidelines
Courses,
guidelines
Regional
Congress
Regional
Congress
World
Congress
World
Congress
RWGRWGIWGIWGReading
Committee
Reading
Committee
Technical
Commissions
Technical
Commissions
Determination of the main scientific objectives of ICMM
Scientific Council

8. Diplomacy
Scientificactivities
Communication
Meeting each two months, in Brussels or in Paris
The Secretariat General’s activities are supported by three poles

9. FORUM
TRAINING
ADVISERS
ASSESSMENT
after disasters
International
Humanitarian Law

10. • As a rule, one each two years.
• Scientific sessions:
– Oral presentations,
– Round tables,
– Posters.
• General Assembly of the National delegates:
– Definition of technical and scientific objectives,
– Deal with statutory, budgetary and diplomatic issues.

11. • The ICMM Scientific Council cooperates with the
Congress Scientific Committee (CSC) of the Member
State organizing the new congress.
• Dealing with the details of implementation.
• Selecting the topics of the congress and setting up the
scientific program on the basis proposed by the organizing
Member State.

12. Director General of the Congress
Secretary of the Congress Scientific Committee
ICMM
Secretary General
ICMM
Communication Manager
ICMM
Chairman of Scientific Council

13. • EXISTING
– ICMM statutes.
– Regulation of Internal Order (RIO) on the Organization of
the World Military Medical Congresses of the ICMM.
• RECENTLY DESIGNED
– Draft of an updated 2nd
version of the RIO.
– Practical Guide - ICMM World Congress Organization:
Scientific sessions.
– Practical Guide - ICMM World Congress Organization:
Questions of Protocol.

14. Tunis, February 2006, preparing the 2007 World Congress
Formal contactsFormal contacts Preparing the programPreparing the program
Reconnaissance of the future congress siteReconnaissance of the future congress site

15. WORLD CONGRESSES
• 30th
World Congress, Augsburg, Germany, 05-12 June 1994.
• 31th
World Congress, Beijing, China, 11-17 October 1996.
• 32th
World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 19-24 April 1998.
• 33th
World Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 25-30 June 2000.
• 34th
World Congress, Sun City, South-Africa, 15-20 September 2002.
• 35th
World Congress, Washington, USA, 12-17 September 2004.
• 36th
World Congress, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 05-11 June 2005.
• 37th
World Congress, Tunis, Tunisia, 21-27 May 2007.
• 38th
World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2009.

16. WORLD CONGRESSES:
most frequent topics
WORLD CONGRESSES:
most frequent topics
During the previous 8 congresses:
• Medical support in international peace support operations 6/8
• Humanitarian interventions on disasters 4/8
• Addressing infectious diseases 4/8
• War surgery 4/8
• Medical support of deployments in specific environments 4/8
• NBC, bio-terrorism, weapons of mass destruction 3/8
• Addressing AIDS 3/8

17. SUN CITY, South-Africa, 2002, reception, registration

18. SUN CITY, South Africa 2002, opening ceremony

20. SUN CITY, South Africa, 2002, first session

21. WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 2004, first session

22. SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia, 2005, first session

23. SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia, 2005
Commissions at work

24. SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia, 2005
Friendly photo

25. WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 2004, General Assembly

26. SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia, 2005
farewell dinner

27. SUN CITY, South Africa, 2002
Field demonstration

28. SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia, 2005
Field demonstration

29. SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia, 2005
Field demonstration

30. SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia, 2005
Field demonstration

31. SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia, 2005
Field demonstration

32. • Closely linked to the activity of Regional Working
Groups (RWG / GTR):
– Pan American RWG / Panamericano GTR.
– GTR Maghrébin.
– GTR Panafricain / Pan African RWG.
• The Members of the RWG make up the audience, as
one of them is the organizing country.

33. • Scientific sessions:
– Oral presentations,
– Round tables,
– Posters.
• Regional Assembly:
– Definition of technical and scientific objectives .
– Deal with regional statutory and budgetary issues.
– Not accredited to deal with political issues, preserved sphere
of the General Assembly.

34. • The ICMM Scientific Council cooperates with the
Scientific Committee of the organizing Country, as it
does for World Congresses.

35. • EXISTING
– ICMM statutes.
• RECENTLY DESIGNED
– Draft of a Regulation of Internal Order (RIO) on the Organization of
the Regional Military Medical Congresses of the ICMM.
– Practical Guide - ICMM Regional Congress Organization:
Scientific sessions.
• SHORTLY DESIGNED
– Practical Guide - ICMM Regional Congress Organization:
Questions of Protocol.

36. REGIONAL CONGRESSES
• 1st
ICMM Pan American Regional Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 02-05 Nov. 1999.
• 2nd
ICMM Pan American Regional Congress, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, Jun. 2001/
• 1st
ICMM Maghrebian Regional Congress, Tunis, Tunisia, 2-4 Oct. 2003.
• 3rd
ICMM Pan American Regional Congress, Santiago, Chili, 18-21 Nov. 2003.
• 1st
ICMM Pan African Regional Congress, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 22-24 Nov. 2005.
• 4th
ICMM Pan American Regional Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 14-17 Nov. 2006.

38. Algeria
Libya
Morocco
Mauritania
Tunisia
And representatives of many other
Member States of ICMM, as:
China,
France,
Italy,
Spain,
Saudi Arabia,
United States…

39. VIth
Pan African Congress of Military Medicine
1st
Pan African Regional Congress of ICMM
Yaoundé, Cameroon, Nov. 2005
Algeria,
Angola,
Burkina-Faso,
Burundi,
Cameroon,
Chad,
Congo (PR of),
Congo (Rep. Of),
Côte d’Ivoire,
Equatorial Guinea,
Gabon,
Ghana,
Libya,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Nigeria,
Sao Tome y Principe,
Senegal,
Sudan,
South Africa,
Tanzania,
Togo,
Tunisia.
Observers:
France,
Greece.

40. REGIONAL CONGRESSES:
most frequent topics
REGIONAL CONGRESSES:
most frequent topics
• Humanitarian interventions on disasters 5/5
• NBC, bio-terrorism, weapons of mass destruction 4/5
• Addressing AIDS 4/5
• Addressing infectious diseases 3/5
• Medical support of deployments in specific environments 3/5

41. OPTIONAL REGIONAL
CONGRESSES
OPTIONAL REGIONAL
CONGRESSES
• Apart from RWG, a Member State can set up a regional
congress dedicated to a specific topic.
• For example, the European Congress of
Vaccinology, set up by France in October 2006 in Paris

42. • Edition, as articles, of the best presentations of World
and Regional Congresses.
• Edition of articles submitted by health-personnel of the
Military Medical Services of the ICMM Member-States.
• News on ICMM and Member-States.
• Work-languages: English, French and Spanish.

44. Medical Support, France/Germany,
Medical Doctors, Logisticians
Medical Support, Jordan,
Medical Doctor

45. Medical Support, Spain,
Logistician
Medical Support, India,
Surgeon

46. War Surgery, UK Resuscitation, Germany

47. Infectious Medicine, China Psychiatry, Russia

48. Veterinarian Medicine, South Africa Medical Robotics, USA

49. Green pages,
news concerning ICMM the States Members

50. Permanent link with the Member-States.
Non-stop external communication.
Opened in 2001
www.cimm-icmm.org

52. • Commission on Pharmacy
– Chairman: Pharmacien général Bleimüller, Germany
• Commission on Dentistry
– Chairman: Colonel Nassih, Morocco
• Commission on Veterinary Science
– Chairman: Colonel van der Merwe, South-Africa
• Commission on Administration and Medico-military
Logistics
– Chairman: Lieutenant-colonel Tirico, Italy

53. • World Health Organization (WHO / OMS)
– Agreement in 1952
– Memorandum of Understanding in 2004
• World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
– Agreement in 2006

54. OMS - CIMMP 1952
WAH5.75 International Committee of Military Medicine and Pharmacy
The Fifth World Health Assembly
Having considered the application of the International Committee of Military Medicine and
Pharmacy for official relation with WHO under the terms of Article 70 of the Constitution;
Noting that according to its Statutes the committee is an intergovernmental organization
APPROVES the draft agreement defining the relations between the two organizations with the
following amendment: Article 1, paragraph 2: delete the words « in the spirit of » and
substitute « with »
See also Handb. Res., Ist ed., 8.3.2.III, p.252 (Fifth report of the Committee on
Programme and Budget, adopted at the ninth plenary meeting, 21 May 1952)

55. WHO/OMS - ICMMP/CIMMP
1952
• Reciprocal representation
• Exchange of information and documents
• Mutual cooperation and consultation

56. WHO-ICMM, Geneva, Switzerland 2004
memorandum of understanding.

57. WHO - ICMM
• WHO uses to cooperate with the Member-States through bilateral
agreements.
• The ICMM is only a forum: it gives to WHO the opportunity to address 102
potential partners, and to give them a statement of its scientific objectives and
technical needs.
• ICMM facilitates contacts.
• But ICMM doesn’t intervene in the final agreement between WHO and the
Member States.

58. v WHO Civil-Military Health Network for Emerging Diseases
ÿ Disease Surveillance—to incorporate surveillance of communicable diseases
within countries' military public health networks, including overseas research
laboratories and institutions, into global surveillance efforts
ÿ Training—to facilitate training of military epidemiology and laboratory
personnel in support of global public health
ÿ Global Outbreak Response—to liaise with countries' military health assets for
assistance in responding to and controlling disease outbreaks
ÿ Complex Humanitarian Emergencies—to improve communication and
coordination between civil and military humanitarian relief efforts for control
of communicable diseases
ÿ Military Medical Humanitarian Exercises—to support the participation of
international and non-governmental organizations in multi-lateral military
humanitarian exercises
ÿ Biological Weapons and Terrorism—to assist countries with national
preparedness plans to include liaison between civil and military health
institutions for response to deliberate use of biological agents to cause harm

59. Actors in Disaster Relief
LocalCommunity XXX X X X ? XXX
Red cross XXX X X X ? X X
LocalNGOs X X X X ? X ?
Military X X X X
Govt. Reliefagency X X XXX X X X
Localauthorities X XXX X X XXX XXX
Line Ministries X X ? XXX XXX XXX
Media X
Private sector ? X X X ? XXX X
NGOs ? ? XXX X X X
ICRC ? X XXX X X
IFRC ? X XXX X X X
UNAgencies X XXX X X X X
Donor gvts: Aid agencies X X X X XXX
Military X X
Media X
Communities XXX
Funds
Mobilization
Public information
Internationals
First
rehabilitation
Recovery
plans
Recovery
acts
Public information
Nationals Searchand Rescue Needs
Assessment
RELIEF

60. Man-made "bio-risk" also increasing
Accidental and deliberate release
of infectious agents
Serious biosafety incidents (e.g. SARS
2003-2004; Ebola 2004).
WHO presentation at the Convention on
Biological and Chemical Weapons, 2004.
Increased concerns during mass
gathering events (e.g. Olympics, Athens,
2004).

61. International Health
Regulations
“…The purpose of the IHR is to ensure maximum
security against international spread of diseases
with minimum interference with world traffic and
trade.”
public health emergencies of international
concern need to be reported to WHO – this may
include events associated with suspected
intentional release of biological agents.

62. Partnership for global
alert and response to infectious diseases

63. ElectronicElectronic
DiscussionDiscussion
sitessites
MediaMedia
NGOsNGOs
Military
Health
Institutions
WHO Collaborating
Centres/Laboratories
Epidemiology
Training Networks
WHO Regional
& Country Offices
MOH/National
Disease Control
Centres
UN
Sister Agencies
FORMALFORMAL
GPHIN
INFORMALINFORMAL
WHO’s Network of Networks

64. OIE
World Organisation for Animal Health
Organisation Mondiale pour la Santé
Animale
OIE was the first name of the Organisation, in French:
Office International des Epizooties

65. OIE, Paris, France, 2006

66. OIE, Paris, France, 2006

68. OIE-CIMM, 2006
• Reciprocal representation.
• Exchange of information and documents.
• Mutual cooperation and consultation.

69. • EXISTING:EXISTING:
• International Law of Armed Conflicts.
• ICMM Course for Veterinary and Paraveterinary Personnel of Armed Forces.
• Medical support of deployments in specific environments.
• Management of Refugees and IDP situations during Peace Support
Operations.
• Juridical background of Peace Support Operations.
• IN PREPARATION:IN PREPARATION:
• Medical Preparation and Support of Military Personnel Involved in Outside
Deployments.

70. COURSE ON LAW OF ARMED CONFLICTSCOURSE ON LAW OF ARMED CONFLICTS
8th
LOAC-ICMM Course, August 2006 SPIEZ, Switzerland

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76. COURSE FOR VETERINARY AND
PARAVETERINARY PERSONNEL
COURSE FOR VETERINARY AND
PARAVETERINARY PERSONNEL
• The third ICMM Course for veterinarians has been held
in May 2006 in Germany, Belgium and France.
• The 2 previous courses had been held in 2003 and
2000 in South Africa.
• The next one will be held 2009.

77. 2nd
Course: introduction to the use of anaesthetic gun

78. 2nd
Course: training with anaesthetic gun

79. 22ndnd
Course: providing health care to a lionCourse: providing health care to a lion

80. 22ndnd
Course: training for working dogsCourse: training for working dogs

81. 22ndnd
Course: riding survey of National ReservesCourse: riding survey of National Reserves

82. 33rdrd
Course:Course:
visit to the Garde Républicaine Cavalry Regimentvisit to the Garde Républicaine Cavalry Regiment
in Paris, France, May 2006in Paris, France, May 2006
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83. 3rd
Course: field equipments for water purification

84. 3rd
INTERNATIONAL COURSE FOR VETERINARY
AND PARAVETERINARY PERSONNEL
May 8th
to 18th
2006, in Germany, Belgium and France
42 attendees, from 14 countries
3rd
INTERNATIONAL COURSE FOR VETERINARY
AND PARAVETERINARY PERSONNEL
May 8th
to 18th
2006, in Germany, Belgium and France
42 attendees, from 14 countries
Albania: 1
Austria: 1
Belgium: 8
China: 3
France: 5
Germany: 3
Malaisia: 1
Albania: 1
Austria: 1
Belgium: 8
China: 3
France: 5
Germany: 3
Malaisia: 1
Norway: 1
Saoudy Arabia: 2
Slovenia: 2
South Africa: 2
Spain: 1
United Kingdom: 3
United States: 9
Norway: 1
Saoudy Arabia: 2
Slovenia: 2
South Africa: 2
Spain: 1
United Kingdom: 3
United States: 9

85. COURSES ON MEDICAL SUPPORT
OF DEPLOYMENTS IN SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTS
COURSES ON MEDICAL SUPPORT
OF DEPLOYMENTS IN SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTS
• Medical support in rough climatic conditions:
– Cold and altitude, one session organized by Austria (1999).
– Desert Climate, one session organized by Tunisia (2001).
• In preparation:
– « Equatorial Forest », with the support of Pan American RWG, and
Asian Member States.
– New sessions of « Cold and Altitude » with several partners
(Europe, North and South America, Asia).
– New session « Desert Climate » with Tunisia.

86. COURSE FOR MEDICAL PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN
PEACE SUPPORT OPERATIONS
COURSE FOR MEDICAL PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN
PEACE SUPPORT OPERATIONS
• Designed after a request of the Pan African RWG.
• First session in November 2006 (Douala, Cameroon).
• Two five days modules, in English and in French:
– Juridical Background of Peace Support Operations (PSO).
– Management of Refugees and IDP Situations during PSO.
• Management:
– ICMM Scientific Council.
• Partners:
– Local Universities, UNHCR, ICRC, WFP, UNHC for Human Rights,
UNICEF, WHO, NGOs, Military Advisers (Switzerland, France,
Cameroon, RECAMP Concept).

87. JURIDICAL BACKGROUND OF PSO: TOPICS
• The International Humanitarian Law.
• The Law of Armed Conflicts.
• Humanitarian, medical and military ethics.
• Protection of wounded, sick and shipwrecked people.
• Protection of civilians.
• Prisoners of war, internees.
• Epidemics of deliberate origin.
• Problems of collaboration between Military Medical Services and the
International Red Cross.

88. REFUGEES AND IDPS SITUATIONS IN PSO: TOPICS
• Health System in emergency situation, impact of crisis.
• Food aid, water supply and hygiene in refugees camps.
• Transmissible diseases during disasters and conflicts.
• Medico surgical cares.
• Tools of epidemiological surveillance.
• Management of essential drugs and approach of logistics.
• Identification of priorities in Public Health.
• Dilemmas in humanitarian action.
• Technical norms.
• Principle of prevention applied to armed conflicts.
• Civil Military Cooperation.

89. 20 ATTENDEES FROM 10 COUNTRIES
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo (Republic of)
• Congo (Peoples Republic of)
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Rwanda
• Sao Tome y Principe

91. INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON THE MEDICAL
PREPARATION AND SUPPORT OF MILITARY
PERSONNEL TO BE DEPLOYED ABROAD
INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON THE MEDICAL
PREPARATION AND SUPPORT OF MILITARY
PERSONNEL TO BE DEPLOYED ABROAD
• In preparation.
• Would be held in the « Institut de Médecine Tropicale
du Service de Santé des Armées of Le Pharo », in
Marseille, France.
• A two weeks module.
• Working language: English.

93. • The technical and scientific activities of ICMM,
specified by the Member States, have one objective:
facilitating the sharing of knowledge, experience and
expertise, between professionals of military medicine,
while keeping links the civilians.
• They are implemented by the means of congresses,
technical commissions, scientific review, web-site
and international courses.
• Thanks to the support and the participation of the
Member States.