1.  World Health Organization Kushal Shah March 15, 2012

2. WHO is a UN Agency that promotes public health www.who.int

3. WHO was founded in 1945 to be a global health organizer www.who.int

4. WHO plays a diverse role in Public Health  Objectives  Providing leadership  Shaping the research agenda and stimulating dissemination  Setting standards, promoting and monitoring their implementation  Articulating ethical and evidence based policy options  Providing technical support, catalyzing change  Monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends www.who.int

5. WHO is largely financed by voluntary donations from member states www.who.int

6. WHO spends its money primarily on Essential health interventions & Administrative Support www.who.int

7. 75% of annual budget is spent on Regional offices www.who.int

8. Millennium Development Goals are designed to combat major socio-economic & health issues  MDGs derived from the United Nations Millennium Declaration (signed in 2000) www.who.int

9. There are 8 Millennium Development Goals www.who.int

10. 3/10 regions are expected to reach at least 50% of goals by 2015

11. Many MDG will not be met by 2015

13. WHO is not perfect  Centralized and Bureaucratic  WHO’s definition of Health  Happiness vs. Health  Overextending  Infringement of Liberty  Required inoculation Centre for Health Program Evaluation, www.projectcensored.org, ABC Newswww.projectcensored.org

14. References  http://syndicam.com/cartoons/june-2009/2533938 http://syndicam.com/cartoons/june-2009/2533938  http://www.jolkona.org/blog/mdgs-and-jolkona/ http://www.jolkona.org/blog/mdgs-and-jolkona/  http://www.englishblog.com/2011/06/cartoon-cell-phones-may-cause-cancer.html http://www.englishblog.com/2011/06/cartoon-cell-phones-may-cause-cancer.html  http://www.howtolearn.com/2012/01/what-did-we-learn-about-health-and- happiness-in-2011 http://www.howtolearn.com/2012/01/what-did-we-learn-about-health-and- happiness-in-2011  http://8goals.ca/site/?q=node/144/ http://8goals.ca/site/?q=node/144/  http://www.uniosil.org/development-goals.html http://www.uniosil.org/development-goals.html  http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic- 11-manipulating-data-to-enrich-drug-companies/ http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic- 11-manipulating-data-to-enrich-drug-companies/  http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFlu/swine-flu-pandemic-world-health- organization-scientists-linked/story?id=10829940#.T2ERZ2JSTEU http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFlu/swine-flu-pandemic-world-health- organization-scientists-linked/story?id=10829940#.T2ERZ2JSTEU

15. References  www.who.int www.who.int  www.un.org www.un.org  http://mdgs.un.org http://mdgs.un.org  http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/ http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/  World Health Organization. Working for Health. Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2007. Print.  Millennium Development Goals Reports: An Assessment 1 (2003). Print  United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011, June 2011, ISBN 978-92-1- 101244-6  WHO, Programme budget 2012-2013, October 2011.  Centre for Health Program Evaluation, A Critique of the World Health Oganisation’s Evaluation of Health System Performance, 2001.