WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization. Seventy-seventh report

Overview

The seventy-seventh meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization was held virtually from 20 to 24 March 2023. The meeting was opened on behalf of the Director-General of WHO and the Assistant DirectorGeneral, Access to Medicines and Health Products, by Dr Clive Ondari, Director, Health Products Policy and Standards. Dr Ondari began by welcoming Committee members, meeting participants and observers. Following the expansion of the Expert Advisory Panel, from which Committee members were selected, Dr Ondari noted that the current 22-member Committee was well balanced in terms of its expertise, and gender and geographical representativeness. In the same year in which WHO would celebrate its 75th anniversary it seemed fitting to note that this Committee was one of its longest-serving advisory bodies.