WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION EB86/5 ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE 16 May 1990

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Eighty-sixth Session

Provisional agenda item 9.1

APPOINTMENT OF THE GENERAL CHAIRMAN OF THE TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS TO BE HELD AT THE FORTY-FOURTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY (1991)

1. In application of paragraph (6) of resolution WHA10.33 the President of the Forty-third World Health Assembly has addressed to the Chairman of the Executive Board a communication in which he nominates Sir Donald Acheson as General Chairman of the Technical Discussions to be held at the Forty-fourth World Health Assembly.

2. It will be recalled that, at its eighty-fourth session, the Executive Board selected "Strategies for health for all in the face of rapid urbanization" as the subject of the 1991 Technical Discussions.

3. Following the recommendation of the President of the Forty-third World Health Assembly, the Executive Board may wish to approve the nomination of Sir Donald Acheson as General Chairman of the Technical Discussions at the Forty-fourth World Health Assembly, at the same time requesting the Director-General to invite Sir Donald Acheson to accept this appointment.

1 Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions. Vol. I, 1973, p. 299. о Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions. Vol. Ill, 2nd ed., 1990, p. 89, Decision EB84(10). ANNEX 1

The Chairman Eighty-sixth session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization

14 May 1990

Dear Mr Chairman,

In application of resolution WHA10.33 adopted by the Tenth World Health Assembly on the Technical Discussions, it is my privilege to propose that Sir Donald Acheson be appointed General Chairman of the Technical Discussions to be held at the Forty-fourth World Health Assembly.

Attached for your information is a copy of the curriculum vitae of Sir Donald Acheson.

Yours sincerely,

(signed) Dr P. Naranjo

President of the Forty-third World Health Assembly

ENCL: (1) ANNEX 2

CURRICULUM VITAE

SIR DONALD ACHESON, KBE

MD and Middlesex Hospital, London, 1951. Early clinical training as internist and epidemiologist at Middlesex Hospital. Radeliffe Travelling Fellow in United States of America, 1958-1959.

1962-1968: Medical tutor and reader in medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. Foundation Director of the Oxford Record Linkage Study, 1963-1968. Research in epidemiology of cancer and chronic disease, and in the organization of health services.

1968-1978 : First Dean and Professor of Epidemiology, Southampton University Medical School.

1979-1983: First Director of the Medical Research Council Unit in Environmental Epidemiology, Southampton. Chairman, Southampton District Health Authority.

1984 - present: Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, Department of Social Security, Home Office, Department of Education and Science, and Chief Medical Adviser to Her Majesty's Government.

Principal appointments to national advisory committees

Past member of the University Grants Committee and of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Chairman of reports on "General practice in inner London" (1979)； "The impending crisis of old age" (1981)； and, most recently, "Public health in " (1988).

Recent publications

Over one hundred original papers, reviews and articles on the epidemiology of cancer and chronic disease and the organization of health services - in particular, on environmental carcinogenesis and multiple sclerosis, and on record linkage as a research tool.

Overseas responsibilities

Head of the delegation to the World Health Assembly. Member of the WHO Executive Board and representative at the Regional Committee for Europe (past President).

Honours

Honorary doctorates at the Universities of Southampton, , Nottingham, Newcastle, and Aberdeen. Honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Member (past President) of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. Numerous scientific medals and citations.