High Level Meeting on Health and Environment

WHO/ADB/UNEP High Level Meeting on Health and Environment
ADB Headquarters, Manila, November 24-26 2004

The high level meeting aims to:

Review and Identify key environmental health issues and challenges common to ASEAN countries, China, Japan, Mongolia and Republic of Korea.
Delineate actions by countries and partner agencies that would strengthen the effective collaboration between the health and environment sectors for sound environmental health policies and interventions

Expected outputs of the meeting include recommendations on:

Strategies which can strengthen the health and environment sectors and possibly others in the development and implementation of policies
Specific actions/interventions to promote strategies and policies to address priority issues at the local, national, and regional levels
Areas of collaboration to promote shared benefits and responsibilities between two ministries and with other relevant government agencies as well as other stakeholders.

Representatives from the Ministries of Health and Ministries of Environment and other key institutions from throughout ASEAN and East Asia.

Nao Ikemoto
E-mail: nikemoto@adb.org