Policy and Advocacy

Each year, member organizations are invited to submit resolutions, position papers, and/or technical papers to WFPHA’s Policy Committee for review. The Policy Committee is responsible for reviewing such submissions. After review, the Policy Committee recommends to the WFPHA general membership those submissions that should pass and the membership votes at WFPHA’s Annual Meeting. Those that are passed become official policy upheld by WFPHA and its members.

• Development and Adoption of WFPHA Resolutions, Position Papers, and Technical Papers
• Schedule for Submission of Resolutions, Position Papers, and Technical Papers

Policy Resolutions

Since 1978 WFPHA has passed a total of 38 Resolutions and two Position Papers. Please see the list below.

• NGOs and Primary Care (1978)
• Breastmilk (1981)
• Peace for Public Health Initiative (1993)
• Nuclear Weapons (1993)
• Smoking in UN Buildings (1993)
• Health in Cuba and the US Embargo (1994)
• Population and Ecological Sustainability (1994)
• Landmines (1994)
• Smallpox (1995)
• Beijing Conference on Women (1995)
• Persistent Organic Pollutants (1996)
• Position Paper: Health, Economics and Development (1996)
• Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (1997)
• NGOs and the World Health Organization (1997)
• Promoting Health in an Era of Global Free Trade (1998)
• Position Paper: Global Tobacco Control (1998)
• Malaria Control and the Use of DDT (1999)
• Update on Malaria Control and the Use of DDT (1999)
• International Debt Relief (1999)
• Health Care Without Harm (1999)
• Global Tobacco Control (2000)
• Global Climate Change (2001)
• Public Health and Globalization (2001)
• Support for International Action to Eliminate Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001)
• Global Public Health Fund (2002)
• WFPHA Declaration on Public Health, Peace and Human Rights (2003)
• DDT Production Facilities (2003)
• Zero Waste (2003)
• International Trade Agreements: Priorities for Health (2003)
• Tobacco Control through WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) (2003)
• Global Public Health Leadership (2004)
• Resolution Toward an International Health Professionals Tobacco Petition (2004)
• Access to Essential Medicines: The Need for Fair Prices and Better Research (2004)
• Health and International Trade Agreements (2004)
• Call for a Global Ban on the Mining and Use of Asbestos (2005)
• Ethical Restrictions on International Recruitment of Health Professionals from Low-Income Countries (2005)
• Renewing Calls for a Global Action (2008)
• Safer Chemical Policies (2008)
• Reinforcing the Public Health Commitments On Peace and Human Rights (2008)
• Healthy Food Pledge (2008)