WHO organigram

WHO Headquarters Structure (excluding Partnerships Secretariats)
May 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

WHO Offices at the:
African Union, Addis Abeba (WAC)
European Union, Brussels (WEU)
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 Service Centre, Kuala Lumpur (GSC)
Human Resources Management (HRD)
Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITT)
Operational Support Services (OSS)
Planning, Resource Coordination & Performance Monitoring (PRP)

Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research (IER)

Ethics and Social Determinants (ESD)
Health Statistics and Information Systems (HSI)
Knowledge Management and Information (KMS)
Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (PHI)
Patient Safety Programme (PSP)
WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe (WKC)

Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH)

Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion (CHP)
Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD)
Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD)
Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
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)
WHO Mediterranean Centre for Vulnerability Reduction, Tunis (WMC)

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 Services (HSS)

Health Systems Policies and Workforce (HPW)
Health System Financing (HSF)
Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP)

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)