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WHO Institutional Repository for Information

Sharing (IRIS)

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What is WHO?

UN specialized agency for health (1948)

194 Member States (Ministries of Health) collectively decide together with WHO Secretariat on global health priorities and action to save lives and improve health.

Headquarters in Geneva, 6 regional offices, 151 country offices

Secretariat is staffed by some 7500 health and other experts and support staff

Director-General: Dr Margaret Chan

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Main Function of WHO

To act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work

The main function is defined by the WHO Constitution

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Objective of WHO

The objective of the World Health Organization shall be the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health. (Article 1, Chapter I, WHO Constitution)

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WHO Headquarters and Regions

• New Delhi, India

• Manila, Philippines

• Washington DC, USA

• Copenhagen, Denmark

• Brazzaville, Congo

• Cairo, Egypt

Geneva, Switzerland

Staff Headquarters: 26.3%

Regional Offices: 23.6%

Country Offices: 50.1%

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WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO)

• Located in Manila, Philippines

• 37 countries and areas

• Over 1.6 billion people

• Ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse

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WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO)

Dr Shin Young-soo, Regional Director

4 technical divisions – Combatting communicable

diseases – Health Security and Emergency – Building healthy community and

populations – Health sector development

Programme Management

Administration and Finance

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Philippines Cambodia

Mongolia

China Japan

Rep. of

Korea

Hong Kong (China) Macao (China) Lao PDR

Viet Nam

Brunei Darussalam

Malaysia Singapore

Palau Papua

New Guinea

Northern

Mariana Islands

Guam

Marshall Islands

Kiribati Nauru

Tuvalu Tokelau Wallis &

Futuna

Samoa American

Samoa

Solomon

Islands

Fiji

Tonga

Vanuatu

New

Caledonia

Niue

Cook

Islands

French

Polynesia

Pitcairn Island New Zealand

Australia

Federated States

of Micronesia

Countries and Areas of the Western Pacific Region

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WHO WPRO Library

Collects, organizes and disseminates medical and health related literature to respond to the information requirements of the Regional Office and field staff, United Nations agencies staff and international organizations as well as researchers from Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region.

Collaborates with the member countries for the continuing development of the Global Health Library (GHL), the Regional Index Medicus (WPRIM) and implementation of access to HINARI (Research4Life).

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WPRO Library

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What is WHO IRIS?

Multilingualism plan of action was established in 2007 through a series of discussions and resolutions of WHO’s WHA and EB to increase worldwide access to WHO multilingual publications.

– WHA58/39, EB122/29, EB121/6, EB122/20, EB122/R9, WHA61/31 and EB124/24

Institutional Repository for Information Sharing

Digital library of WHO’s information products

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Main Function of IRIS

The WHO global institutional repository (GIR) will assemble and store, in digital form, WHO’s intellectual output in all available languages via a single location (URL) with multilingual searching capabilities

Data will be stored in a decentralized model:

Global IR - http://www.who.int/iris Regional IR under construction

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Digital library of WPRO’s information products which includes but not limited to the following:

•Regional Committee (RCM) documents •Regional publications •Technical documents and reports •Meeting reports •Mission reports •Journal articles written by staff using WPRO affiliation •Publications supported/funded by WPRO

Candidate for IRIS

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Under development:

• Customization of the user interface • Will be available and searchable in three official

languages (Chinese, English and French) • Addition of specific modules and features • Encoding of data

Working closely with Seoul National University for the technical aspects of the IR

Development of IRIS

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Support for IRIS

The Institute of Medical Information Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (IMICAMS) supported the IRIS project by agreeing to provide subject indexing (Chinese MeSH) for WHO documents published in the Chinese language.

SNU for technical specificities

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Challenges

Selection of material

No access to paper for WHO staff

Digitization of WPRO material

Lack of staff

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Marie Villemin Partow

Publications Officer, WHO WPRO

(in charge of Translation, Publications

and Library Services)

THANK YOU

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