WONCA News

June, 2019

Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD, WONCA WHO liaison person, recently attended the World Health Assembly (WHA) as part of the WONCA delegation and submits this report from WHA72. This is my third year in Geneva as WONCA’s WHO Liaison, and I perceived a difference this time. A real and new awareness that what the world needs to improve health outcomes is for the majority of care to be delivered by Primary Health Care (PHC), through the work of interdisciplinary teams, and that these teams need to be well trained, well organized, well supported and well-funded to succeed.

June, 2019

World Health Assembly (WHA) was the usual hectic time, with meetings and side events to attend and to participate in. The WONCA delegation of me; President-Elect, Anna Stavdal; CEO, Garth Manning; and WONCA-WHO Liaison, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi; had a tight schedule of meetings. We met, individually and as a group, with officials from WHO and other agencies and organisations, representing the range of interests of our organisation.

June, 2019

L’Assemblée mondiale de la santé était comme d’habitude surchargée avec réunions et événements parallèles auxquels assister et participer. Notre délégation -moi-même: Anna Stavdal, présidente élue; Garth Manning, PDG; Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, agent de liaison WONCA-OMS- avait un programme rempli de réunions.

June, 2019

Este mes, pregunté a la Profesora Val Wass, como docente de renombre a nivel mundial y como miembro de la WONCA y Tesorera Honoraria, para darle puntos de vista acerca de cómo la educación de los estudiantes de medicina necesita adaptarse al cambiante entorno sanitario.

June, 2019

WONCA Working Party on the Environment in its May 2019 newsletter provides some interesting resources on environmental issues.

June, 2019

Two new WONCA Special Interest Groups have announced their convenors. Also the Spice Route Movement for Young Doctors in the South Asia region has a new chair. Find out more about them!

June, 2019

As is now the custom, World Family Doctor Day was celebrated widely in many countries across the globe. Of particular note this year was the launch of two books which are featured in this report - both show what our specialty of family medicine is about - but from totally different perspectives. Other member organisation reports formally submitted by May 31 are included in the attached document.

May, 2019

Professor Val Wass, globally renowned medical educator, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education, and also WONCA Member At Large and Honorary Treasurer, to give her views on how the education of medical students needs to adapt to the changing health environment.

May, 2019

WONCA Iberoamericana CIMF, which brings together twenty countries including Spain and Portugal, held its sixth Congress of Family and Community Medicine of Ibero-America, in Tijuana, in May. More than 1,500 family doctors and health professionals from all areas of Ibero-America met in Tijuana, Mexico.

May, 2019

This World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) workshop calls for international action to improve access and uptake of vaccinations in all countries across the globe.