Events at WHO Headquarters - PROGRAMME

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09:15

Coffee/tea - Main foyer

10:00

Welcome and programme for the day - Dr David Nabarro, Executive Director, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, World Health Organization

10:10

Song performance and international welcome - School children, Ecole de la Place, Geneva

10:15

World Health Day video statement - Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization

10:20

World Health Day Message - H.E. Mrs Laxanachantorn Laohaphan, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Thailand on behalf of HRH Professor Dr Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol.

10:25

Statement - Mr Pierre-Francois Unger, Conseiller d'Etat, Département de l'action sociale et de la santé, Etat de Genève

10:30

Role play - School children, Ecole de la Place, Geneva

10:40

Statements

- Dr Gaudenz Silberschmidt, Head of Division of International Affairs, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health

- Ms Sibylle Vermont, Senior Scientific Advisor, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape

10:50

Poetry reading - School children, International School, Geneva

10:55

World Health Day video news release projection

11:05

Panel Discussion on Healthy Environments for Children

Question & Answer session involving school children & representatives of WHO, UNICEF, UNEP

Panellists

- Mr Frits Schlingemann, Director, Regional Office for Europe, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

- Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Senior Health Advisor, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

- Dr Jenny Pronczuk, Medical Officer, Protection of the Human Environment, World Health Organization (WHO)

- Tamara, student, role playing UNEP

- Julian, student, role playing UNICEF

- Anita, student, role playing WHO

11:20

Statement - co-written and recited by the students of the International School, Geneva

11:25

Closing remarks

11:30-12:00

Refreshments - Main foyer

11:30 - 13:00

"Drawings to shape the future of life" - School children and children of WHO staff and others will have the opportunity to portray their ideas of healthy environments for children.