Global Health Alliances

FDI World Dental Federation is a member of the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA); an alliance of dentists, doctors, nurses and pharmacists. WHPA represents more than 20 million health care professionals worldwide and assembles essential knowledge and experience from key health care professions. The alliance aims to facilitate collaboration between key health professionals and major international stakeholders such as governments, policy makers, and the World Health Organization. By working in collaboration, instead of along parallel tracks, the patient and health care system benefit.

More information about WHPA is available on the alliance website: www.whpa.org

WHPA Alliance Partners

WHPA Events

Call to Action: Fight the dangers of medical counterfeits

Read the Press Release (English, français, español, Deutsch) on a ‘Call to Action', to combat the threat to public health and patient safety posed by counterfeit and falsified medical products

1. English summary and detailed workshop reports from San José. (detailed versions contain notes from the break out sessions)
2. Spanish summary and detailed workshop reports from San José.
3. English and Spanish workshop evaluation form for San José.
4. English workshop report from Abuja.
5. English evaluation form from Abuja.
6. Scanned original of San José Call to Action.
7. How to use the Call to Action, English and Spanish.

Merci de noter que les traductions en français des poins 4 et 5 sont en cours.

Positive Practice Environment (PPE) Campaign

PPE Newsletter: English and French
PPE Fact Sheet: Meeting the information needs of health professionals (English, French and Spanish)
Press release in English and Spanish announcing the availability of the Fact Sheet on the PPE website.

World Health Assembly intervention

The World Health Professions Alliance was present at the 63rd World Health Assembly, held in Geneva from 17-21 May 2010. On the subject of counterfeit medical products, FIP spoke on behalf of the five WHPA member organizations and stressed that all of us, as health professionals, have a common goal to protect the well-being of patients in all parts of the world from poor quality, substandard and counterfeit medical products. WHPA remains very strongly supportive of WHO's role to assume leadership in combating counterfeit medical products based solely on its mandate for public health interests.
Full text of the WHPA counterfeit medical products intervention.

World Health Professions Conference on Regulation

The second edition of the World Health Professions' Conference on Regulation took place from 18-19 February 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland with 250 participating delegates from 45 countries. Dr Orlando Monteiro da Silva, President-Elect, and Dr David Alexander, Executive Director, represented FDI World Dental Federation at this World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) event around the theme of "Shaping the Future: The Regulation of Health Professionals." FDI representative speaker, Professor Pat Reynolds, led a dentists' workshop during the morning session on the subject of "Examining regulatory and professional issues related to the international migration of health professionals".

Joint Statements by the WHPA

01.2008 - Statement given at the 122th WHO Executive Board meeting on agenda item 4.8 - International migration of health personnel: A challenge for health systems in developing countries (.pdf, 11KB)

01.2008 - Statement given at the 122th WHO Executive Board meeting on agenda item 4.8 - Female Genital Mutilation (.pdf, 13KB)

01.2008 - Statement given at the 122th WHO Executive Board meeting on agenda item 4.8 - Health of migrants (.pdf, 12KB)

01.2007 - Statement given at the 120th WHO Executive Board meeting on agenda item 4.10 - Workers' Health: Draft Global Plan of Action (.pdf, 9KB)

05.2006 - Statement given at the 59th World Health Asembly on agenda item 11.1 - Pandemic-influenza preparedness and response (.pdf, 12KB)

05.2006 - Statement given at the 59th World Health Asembly on agenda item 11.10 - International Trade and Health (.pdf, 13KB)

05.2006 - Statement given at the 59th World Health Asembly on agenda item 11.12 - International Migration of Health Personnel: A challenge for health systems In developing countries (.pdf, 10KB)

World Health Editors' Network (WHEN)

Acknowledging the increasingly important role of communicators in shaping health policy choices, the WHPA supports the World Health Editors' Network (WHEN).

WHEN is an inter-professional, public/private information exchange platform for addressing key global health communication trends and challenges and strengthening public health communication and advocacy capacity. Membership is free and voluntary in this network of editors who meet occasionally to share information, gain specialist knowledge and contacts, communicate with colleagues across disciplines and national boundaries, and develop new strategies for disseminating public health messages. WHEN also aims to be a forum through which to devise or coordinate ethical codes for health communications, as well as to help assess the efficacy of health communication campaigns.