Subject: RE: List of focal points
From: "IVANUSA, Marijan" <[email-masked]>
To: Sopo Belkania
Cc: KLIMIASHVILI, Rusudan <[email-masked]>;
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 06:05:27 +0000

Dear Sopo,

Please, be informed that in principle WHO only maintains the list of 12 WHO national technical focal points (see below), additionally to the WHO National Counterpart for strategic Collaboration.

WHO national counterpart

Dr Nino Berdzuli
Deputy Minister
Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs

WHO national technical focal points

1.    Communicable diseases

2.    Noncommunicable diseases

3.    Mental health

4.    Violence and injury prevention

5.    Promoting health throughout the life-course

6.    Equity and social determinants of health

7.    Health and the environment

8.    Health systems

9.    Subnational policies: regions and cities

10.  Preparedness, surveillance and response

11.  Leadership and governance, strategic planning, resource coordination and reporting

12.  Strategic communications

Usually a formal request is sent to the member state at the beginning of the biennium to nominate the 12 technical focal points. I can’t remember such list has been delivered to WHO in the past, and there is no such information on the web (as it is for many other member states; http://www.euro.who.int/en/countries).

WHO does not provide any incentives to the technical focal points for their collaboration with the WHO. They (simply) represent the member state at different meetings and they are contacted to provide respective country specific data and information, when applicable.

Attached you can find a list of national experts that we usually contact for different technical issues. Please, keep in mind that this is our working list and not a formal list of national technical focal points.

What we would appreciate is to have formal list of 12 national focal points as per the above listed technical areas.

You may also update the attached table, but this extended list can serve for our internal purposes, while formally we will publish the list of the national technical focal points on our web page.

Thank you and best regards,

Marijan Ivanusa

WHO Representative

Head of WHO Country Office Georgia

Office location: 81 Vasil Barnov Street, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

Mailing address: UN House, 9 Rapiel Eristavi Street, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

Mobile 1: +995 599 305 207

Mobile 2: +386 40 528 639

Email: [email-masked]

Skype: who-ivanusam

GPN: 74211

From: Sopo Belkania [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 16 October, 2017 15:16
To: IVANUSA, Marijan; KLIMIASHVILI, Rusudan
Subject: List of focal points

Dear Marijan and Rusiko,

Hope you are doing well.

In order to renew the data base of focal points designated by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia and Legal Entities of Public Law of the Ministry, I would like to kindly ask you to provide us with the list of contact persons who are working/communicating with WHO in different directions of health care field.

Best regards,

Sopo Belkania

Head of HR Management and International Relations Department

Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

144 A.Tsereteli Avenue, 0159, Tbilisi, Georgia

Mobile number: +995 599 22 32 32