World Health Organization Secretariat

The World Health Organization Secretariat or WHO Secretariat is one of the three main bodies of the World Health Organization, which include the World Health Assembly and the WHO Executive Board. The Director-General is the head of the Secretariat, which carries out the day-to-day work of the organization as mandated by the Health Assembly. The Secretariat has eight thousand technical and administrative staff members working across six regional offices around the world. The Constitution of the World Health Organization requires the Secretariat Director-General and the staff not to seek or receive instructions from any government or from any authority external to the Organization and that Member States respect the exclusively international character of the Director-General and the staff and not to seek to influence them. By the Constitution, the Director-Genera is also ex-officio Secretary of the World Health Assembly, the Executive Board, and of all commissions and committees, and conferences convened by the organization.

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