WHO SEARO provides leadership on health matters, articulates evidence-based policy options, provides technical support to countries and monitors health trends.

1. SEARO
- SOUTH EAST ASIAN REGIONAL OFFICE

2. WHO
 World Health Organization (WHO) is the United
Nations’ specialized agency for Health.
 It is an inter-governmental organization and works in
collaboration with its member states usually through
the Ministries of Health.

3.  The World Health Organization is responsible for
providing leadership on global health matters,
shaping the health research agenda, setting norms
and standards, articulating evidence-based policy
options, providing technical support to countries and
monitoring and assessing health trends

4. WHO
 India became a party to the WHO Constitution on 12
January 1948.
 The first session of the WHO Regional Committee for
South-East Asia was held on 4-5 October 1948 in the
office of the Indian Minister of Health.
 It was inaugurated by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime
Minister of India and was addressed by the WHO Director-
General, Dr Brock Chisholm. India is a Member State of
the WHO South East Asia Region.
 Dr Henk Bekedam is the WHO Representative to India.

5. World Health Organization Regional
Office for South-East Asia
 Its Home to a quarter of the world population.
 WHO SEARO provides leadership on health matters,
articulates evidence-based policy options,
provides technical support to countries and monitors
health trends.

6. SEARO headquarters
 The headquarters of SEARO is in New Delhi, the
official address being :
 Address: World Health House, Indraprastha Estate,
Mahatma Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, Delhi 110002
 Phone: 011 2337 0804

7. SEARO countries
 The WHO South East Asia Region has 11 Member
States

8. Year of joining Member country Population in 2010
[million]
1972 Bangladesh 148.69
1950 Indonesia 239.8
1982 Bhutan 0.726
1948 India 1224.6
1973 Korea(dem . People’s
rep)
24.3
1965 Maldives islands 0.316
1948 myanmar 47.96
1953 nepal 29.9
1948 Sri lanka 20.86
1947 thailand 69.12
2002 Timor leste 1.12

9. Areas of work
 Family Health Gender and Life Course (FGL)
 Health Systems Strengthening for Universal Health
Coverage
 Noncommunicable DisCommunicable Diseases
Department (CDS)
 eases and Environmental Health (NDE)
 Administration and Finance

10. Governing bodies
 The World Health Assembly
 The World Health Assembly's mandate is to approve
the biennial programme budget, and decide on major
policy matters. The Health Assembly is the supreme
decision-making body of WHO.
 The World Health Assembly is held usually in Geneva,
in May each year, and is attended by delegations
from all Member States.

11. It comprises of
 Executive board
 Regional board

12. Executive committee
 The Executive Board is composed of 34 individuals technically qualified in the field
of health, each one designated by a Member State elected to do so by the World
Health Assembly.
 Member States are elected for three-year terms, and the individuals they
designate act as government representatives and not in their individual capacity.
The Board meets at least twice a year; the main meeting is normally in January,
with a second shorter meeting in May, immediately after the Health Assembly. The
main functions of the Board are:
 to give effect to the decisions and policies of the Health Assembly

13.  to advise the World Health Assembly
 to facilitate the work of the Health Assembly generally.
 The Secretariat of WHO is staffed by some 8000 health and other experts
and support staff on fixed-term appointments, working at headquarters in
6 regional offices

14. Regional body
 The WHO South-East Regional Committee is composed of representatives
of
 the Member States and Associate Members in the Region.
 Territories or groups of territories within the Region ,which are not
responsible for the conduct of their international reations and which are
not Associate Members, have the right to be represented and to
participate in the sessions of the Regional Committee.

15.  The nature and extent of the rights and obligations of these territories or groups
of territories in regional committees is determined by the Health Assembly in
consultation with the Member or other authority having responsibility for the
international relations of these territories and with the Member States in the
Region.
 Subject to the general authority of the Director-General of the Organization, the
Regional Office is the administrative organ of the Regional Committee.
 In addition, it carries out the decisions of the Health Assembly and of the
Executive Board within the Region.

16. Formulating Oral Health Strategy for
South-East Asia Region
 (1) To set up directions for public oral health-oriented action
in the SEA Region
 (2) To facilitate the development and strengthening of
national oral health policies and formulation of action plans
for community-oriented oral health programmes

17.  (3) To guide the advancement of programes for oral
health promotion & for prevention of priority oral
diseases at the national, sub-national and community
levels
 (4) To promote equitable access to essential oral
health care services
 (5) To strengthen the capacity of human resources as
relevant to oral health promotion, prevention of oral
diseases, and provision of curative services

18. conclusion
 The who activity in south east Asia include malaria
eradication, tuberculosis control, control of other
communicable diseases ,health services, production of
vaccines, health statistics, administration of public
health services, health education, nursing
,environmental health and water supply, nutrition,
dental health, mental health ,medical rehabilitation,
quality control of drugs and medical education.