WHO Our goal is to build a "- Plan: Effective "Cost effectiveness and strategic planning (WHO-CHOICE)
better, healthier strategies for ""- providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging
future for people all improving in partnerships where joint action is needed;
over the world. national, regional - shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation,
Working through and community level translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge;
offices in more than pandemic -setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their
150 countries, WHO preparedness and implementation;
staff work side by response articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options;
side with should be further - providing technical support, catalysing change, and building
governments and developed or refined. sustainable institutional capacity; and
other partners to This tripartite - monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends."
ensure the highest relationship
attainable level of envisages
health for all people. complementary work
to develop normative
Together we strive to standards and field
combat diseases programs to achieve
infectious diseases One Health goals."
like influenza and HIV
and "- Areas/Focus:
noncommunicable Communicable
ones like cancer and diseases
heart disease. We WHO is working with
help mothers and countries to increase
children survive and and sustain access to
thrive so they can prevention,
look forward to a treatment and care
healthy old age. We for HIV,
ensure the safety of tuberculosis,malaria
the air people and neglected
breathe, the food tropical diseases and
they eat, the water to reduce vaccine-
they drink and the preventable diseases.
medicines and MDG 6 (combat
vaccines they need. HIV/AIDS,malaria and
other diseases) has
driven remarkable
progress but much
work remains."
"The three organizations recognize a joint responsibility for addressing zoonotic and other high impact diseases and have been working
together for several decades to minimize the health, social and economic impact from diseases arising at the human-animal interface by
preventing, detecting, controlling, eliminating or managing disease risks to humans originating directly or indirectly from domestic or wild
animals. FAO, OIE and WHO have created governance structures, established early warning systems and developed mechanisms to
enhance coordination and support member countries. "
"The three agencies collaborate to advance their own normative and standard scopesetting. For instance, WHO and FAO participate in
OIEs ad hoc thematic and working group meetings (e.g. OIE Working Group on Animal Production Food Safety). WHO contributes to FAOs
work on reducing biological safety risks, and OIE contributes to the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) and its subsidiary bodies work
(Joint FAO/ WHO Food Standards Programme) for food, animal and health aspects prior to processing and marketing guidance to norms
that assist in food safety and food-borne pathogens."