WHO Regional Committee for EuropeInternational

The WHO Regional Committee for Europe is the primary decision-making and governing body of the World Health Organization in the European Region, comprising health ministers and delegates from 53 member states, including Iceland. Its mandate is to formulate regional health policies, supervise regional WHO activities, approve budgets, and nominate the Regional Director. Established when it convened its inaugural session in September 1951 in Geneva, the committee oversees public health initiatives across Europe and Central Asia and later helped establish the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen in 1957.