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EXECUTIVE BOARD

Sixty-first Session

Provisional agenda item 3

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23 December 1977

REPORT ON APPOINTMENTS TO EXPERT ADVISORY PANELS AND COMMITTEES J 1Л{ О г)

Changes in the composition of Expert Advisory Panels and Committees

are reported to the Executive Board in compliance with the Regulations

governing these bodies. The Director-General is presenting the report

once a year at the January session in accordance with the wishes of the

Board. The report is prepared in the revised format approved in

resolution EB59.R2.

Changes in panel membership

1. Membership of the 44 expert advisory panels totalled 2630 at the end of 1977 (as compared with 2631 members in 1976). A breakdown of the changes which have occurred during the year is given in Table 1. Detailed information on membership of the panels (alphabetical list of experts, year of birth, sex, nationality) can be made available in the form of a computer print-out should the Board so request.

Geographical distribution

2. In order to indicate the trend of the distribution of panel members between regions,

Table 2 gives figures and percentages at five year intervals since 1965, and for the last

two years. Membership by country in each region is shown in Tables 3 to 8. It will be

seen that, in keeping with programme trends and priorities, representation from developing

countries has continued to increase.

3. The Executive Board at its fifty-sixth session in June 1975 reviewed the subject of geographical distribution of expert panels when considering the special report by the Director-General.1 The questions raised at that time will be considered further by the Board in the context of its organizational study on "The role of WHO expert advisory panels and committees and collaborating centres in meeting the needs of WHO regarding expert advice and in carrying out technical activities of WHO" (provisional agenda item 27.2).

Meetings

4. During 1977 meetings of the following Expert Committees were held:

Expert Committee on the Use of Ionizing Radiation and Radionuclides on Human Beings

for Medical Research, Teaching and Non-Medical Purposes (8 members)

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (12 members, 6 WHO experts)

Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations (8 members)

Expert Committee on Chemistry and Specifications of Insecticides (8 members)

Expert Committee on the Training and Utilization of Auxiliary Personnel for Rural

Health Teams in Developing Countries (4 members)

Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (10 members)

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WHO Official Records, No. 228, 1975, Part 1, Annex 1.

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Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs (9 members)

Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues and Environment

and the WHO Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues (12 members, 6 WHO experts)

Expert Committee on Biological Standardization (10 members)

Global Advisory Committee on Medical Research (19 members)

In all, invitations to participate in these Committees were extended to 88 panel members from

33 different countries, selected from 21 panels (9 members were unable to attend).

TABLE 1. CHANGES IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF WHO EXPERT ADVISORY PANELS DURING 1977

(summary in figures)

WHO

regions

New

appointments Reinstatements

End of

appointments— Suspensions Resignations Deaths

Total

changes

Africa 20 - 10 ( 4) - 1 - + 9

Americas 25 2 51 (34) - 5 6 - 3 5

Eastern

Mediterranean 21 - 7 ( 4) - - - + 14

Europe 84 2 61 (38) 4 7 12 + 2

South-East

Asia 17 3 5 ( 4) 2 1 2 + 10

Western

Pacific 19 1 17 (11) 1 2 1 - 1

\ 186 8 / \ l 5 1 (95) 7 16 П / - 1

\ / + 194 - 1 9 5

Transfers (do

not affect

grand total)

11

— N u m b e r of panel members aged 65 years or more who were not reappointed (see resolution EB37.R2), indicated in

parentheses.

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TABLE 2. TOTAL NUMBER OF EXPERTS SERVING ON EXPERT ADVISORY PANELS, BY REGION

(percentage shown in parentheses)

Changes

WHO regions 1965 1970 1975 1976 1977 since

31.12.76

Africa 47

( 1 . 8 )

89

( 3 . 3 )

125

( 4 . 7 )

139

( 5 . 3 )

153¿

( 5 . 8 ) + 14

Americas 728

(29.4)

705

(26.6)

671

(24.9) 644

(24.5) 609

(23.1) - 3 5

Eastern 120 163 186 188 197-Mediterranean ( 4 . 9 ) ( 6 . 2 ) ( 6 . 9 ) ( 7 . 1 ) ( 7 . 5 ) 十 У

Europe 1 284 1 321 1 273 1 232 1 234

+ 2 Europe (51.9) (49.9) (47.3) (46.8) (47.0)

+ 2

South-East 130 158 193 192 202 + 10 Asia ( 5 . 3 ) ( 6 . 0 ) ( 7 . 2 ) ( 7 . 3 ) ( 7 . 7 ) + 10

Western 165 212 243 236 235 Pacific ( 6 . 7 ) ( 8 . 0 ) ( 9 . 0 ) ( 9 . 0 ) ( 8 . 9 )

- 1

Total number

of members 2 474 2 648 2 691 2 631 2 630 - 1

a 一 Five members from Ethiopia transferred to the African Region.

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TABLE 3. AFRICAN REGION

Changes

Countries 1965 1970 1975 1976 1977 since

31.12.76

- - - 0 0

1 1 6 6 5 - 1

- - 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

- - - 0 0

Central African Empire 0 0 1 1 1

Chad 0 0 0 0 0

Comoros - - 0 0 0

Congo 0 0 0 0 0

Ethiopia3

4 + 4

0 0 0 0 1 + 1

Gambia - 2 2 2 2

Ghana 9 14 15 18 17 - 1

Guinea 1 1 1 1 0 - 1

Guinea-Bissau - - 0 0 0

Ivory Coast 0 2 2 2 2

Kenya 0 5 5 9 10 + 1

Lesotho - 0 0 0 0

Liberia 0 0 0 0 1 + 1

Madagascar 0 1 0 0 1 + 1

Malawi 0 0 0 0 0 Mali 0 1 2 2 2

Mauritania 0 0 0 0 0

Mauritius 0 0 3 3 4 + 1

Mozambique - - 0 0 0

0 2 3 2 2

Nigeria 7 24 37 38 41 + 3

Rwanda 0 0 0 0 0

Sao Tome and Principe - - - 0 0

Senegal 1 3 6 7 8 + 1

Sierra Leone 1 5 5 5 6 + 1

South Africa 24 12 11 11 9 - 2

- - 0 0 0

Togo 1 3 5 4 8 外 4 Uganda 0 6 9 13 13

United Republic of Cameroon .. 0 2 5 5 5

United Republic of Tanzania .. 0 3 5 8 8

Upper Volta 1 1 1 1 1

Zaire 0 0 0 0 1 + 1 Zambia 0 0 0 1 1

Namibia 0 0 0 0 0

Southern Rhodesia 1 . 1 1 0 0

47 89 125 139 153 + 14

a — F o r m e r l y part of the Eastern Mediterranean Region: part of the African Region

from May 1977 (resolution WHA30.35).

Total number of countries : 4 2 .

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TABLE 4. REGION OF THE AMERICAS

Changes Countries 1965 1970 1975 1976 1977 since

31.12.76

Argentina 23 16 18 16 17 + 1 Bahamas - - 0 0 0 Barbados - 3 3 3 3 Bolivia 1 2 1 1 1 Brazil 79 72 79 74 67 - 7 Canada 72 71 65 61 53 - 8 Chile 35 32 23 20 19 - 1 Colombia 13 13 13 14 16 + 2 Costa Rica 4 4 1 1 2 + 1 Cuba 2 1 3 4 4 Dominican Republic 1 1 1 1 1 Ecuador 4 5 6 6 5 - 1 El Salvador 4 6 6 4 4 Grenada - - 0 0 0 Guatemala 6 3 2 2 2

Guyana 0 1 0 0 0 Haiti 1 1 1 0 0 Honduras 0 0 0 0 0 Jamaica 0 2 3 2 2

Mexico 29 25 22 21 19 - 2

Nicaragua 2 0 0 0 0

Panama 4 2 1 1 1

0 1 0 1 1

18 16 12 12 11 - 1

- - - 0 0

Trinidad and Tobago 0 2 2 2 2

United States of America 398 395 381 373 355 - 1 8

12 9 6 5 5

20 22 22 20 19 1

728 705 671 644 609 - 3 5

Total number of countries: 29.

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TABLE 5. EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION

Changes

Countries 1965 1970 1975 1976 1977 since

31.12.76

Afghanistan^. 2 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 1 + 1 2 1 0 0 0

- 0 0 1 1

Egypt 32 42 49 47 49 + 2

/Ëthiopiab 1 3 5 Í! r - 5 / 24 40 47 50 54 + 4

1 4 6 5 6 + 1

25 24 28 29 28 - 1 2 2 4 4 4

0 0 0 0 1 + 1

9 12 15 14 14

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 0 0 0 0 1 + 1

- - 0 0 0

15 20 15 14 16 + 2

0 0 0 0 0

Saudi Arabia 0 0 0 0 1 + 1

0 0 0 0 0

7 10 12 13 13

1 1 1 1 2 + 1

1 2 4 5 6 + 1

United Arab Emirates - - 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

120 163 186 188 197 + 9

— F o r m e r l y part of the South-East Asia Region: part of the Eastern Mediterranean

Region since July 1969 (resolution WHA22.19).

— P a r t of the African Region from May 1977 (resolution WHA30.35).

Total number of countries : 22.

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TABLE 6. EUROPEAN REGION

Changes

Countries 1965 1970 1975 1976 1977 since

31.12.76

Albania 1 1 1 0 0

Algeria 0 0 2 2 2

Austria 11 9 9 8 7 - 1

Belgium 46 43 40 42 38 - 4

Bulgaria 8 11 15 15 19 + 4

Byelorussian SSR 0 0 0 0 0 Czechoslovakia 58 59 54 50 48 - 2

Denmark 47 47 38 33 32 - 1

Finland 14 14 17 17 27 + 10

France 176 191 183 183 183

German Democratic Republic - - 6 9 10 + 1

Germany, Federal Republic of 61 54 58 64 61 - 3 14 10 6 3 3

Hungary 11 28 24 25 25

Iceland 1 0 1 1 2 + 1

Ireland 4 6 5 4 3 - 1

Italy 67 56 49 43 42 - 1

Luxembourg 1 2 1 1 2 + 1

Malta 0 1 1 1 1

0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2

52 55 52 50 47 - 3 32 26 23 23 22 - 1

Poland 34 52 51 54 52 - 2

16 16 11 9 9 6 29 27 27 25 - 2

18 17 15 13 14 + 1 53 51 50 51 51 52 51 52 49 50 + 1

Turkey 8 8 8 7 7

Ukrainian SSR 3 0 2 2 2

Union of Soviet Socialist 139 149 157 152 166 + 14

United Kingdom of Great Britain

and Northern Ireland 325 304 283 266 257 - 9 25 30 30 26 25 - 1

1 284 1 321 1 273 1 232 1 234 十 2

Total number of countries: 34.

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TABLE 7. SOUTH-EAST ASIA REGION

Changes

Countries 1965 1970 1975 1976 1977 since 31.12.76

1 7 Bangladesh - - 1 1 5 + 4

3 3 4 10 11 + 1

Democratic People 1

s Republic

of Korea - - 0 0 0

91 116 116 109 110 + 1

15 11 16 16 17 + 1

0 0 0 0 0

0 2 2 2 2

0 0 2 2 3 + 1

Sri Lanka 7 8 20 20 22 + 2

13 18 32 32 32

130 158 193 192 202 + 10

— P a r t of the Eastern Mediterranean Region since July 1969 (resolution WHA22,19).

Total number of countries: 10.

TABLE 8. WESTERN PACIFIC REGION

Changes

Countries 1965 1970 1975 1976 1977 since 31.12.76

46 53 67 63 60 - 3 - - 16 19 20 + 1

0 0 0 0 0

Fiji - - 1 1 1

65 76 79 68 63 - 5

Lao People's Democratic 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 9 13 14 + 1

14 32 32 30 32 + 2 - . - 0 0 0

20 23 17 18 18

Republic of Korea 1 2 4 5 6 + 1 Samoa 0 0 0 0 0

Singapore 4 8 15 18 20 + 2

Tonga - - 0 0 0

Viet Nam 3 4 3 1 1

165 212 243 236 235 - 1

Total number of countries : 15.