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WHO Headquarters Structure (excluding Partnerships Secretariats)
November 2012

Director-General
Deputy Director-General
Office of the Director-General (ODG)

Communications (DCO)
Governing Bodies (GBS)
Internal Oversight Services (IOS)
Legal Counsel (LEG)
Ombudspersons (OMB)
United Nations Coordination (UNI)
United Nations, New York (WUN)

Family, Women's and Children's Health (FWC)

Ageing and Life Course (ALC)
Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB)
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA)
Reproductive Health and Research (RHR)

General Management Cluster

Finance (FNM)
Global Conference and Training Centre, Tunis (CGT)
Global Service Centre, Kuala Lumpur (GSC)
Human Resources Management (HRD)
Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITT)
Operational Support Services (OSS)
Planning, Resource Coordination & Performance Monitoring (PRP)

Health Security and Environment (HSE)

Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases (FOS)
Global Capacities, Alert and Response (GCR)
Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases (PED)
Public Health and Environment (PHE)

Health Systems and Innovation (HIS)

Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP)
Ethics and Social Determinants (ESD)
Health Statistics and Information Systems (HSI)
Health System Financing (HSF)
Health Systems Policies and Workforce (HPW)
Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS)
Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (PHI)
Patient Safety Programme (PSP)
WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe (WKC)

HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM)

Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)
Global Malaria Programme (GMP)
HIV/AIDS (HIV)
Stop TB (STB)

Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH)

Management of Noncommunicable Diseases (MND)
Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD)
Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD)
Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases (PND)
Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability (VIP)

Polio, Emergencies and Country Collaboration (PEC)

Country Collaboration (CCO)
Emergency Risk Management and Humanitarian Response (ERM)
Polio Operations and Research (POL)