The Health Promotion Cluster provides leadership, guidance and technical support in the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health promotion policies, plans, strategies and programmes in order to accelerate the response to the determinants of health to address priority public health issues in the African Region.
The priority public health issues include but are not limited to maternal and child health; HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria; diabetes, hypertension, cancer, violence, injuries and other noncommunicable conditions; environmental degradation; water, sanitation and hygiene; polio, leprosy and other neglected tropical diseases; and the new threats to health (climate change, pandemic influenza, rapid urbanization)
The Health Promotion Cluster Programmes are:
Family and Reproductive Health
Protection of the Human Environment
Determinants and Risk Factors
Director, Health Promotion
Dr Tigest Ketsela
Tel.: +47241 39309
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World Conference on Social Determinants of Health
Rio de Janeiro, 19-21 October 2011
Report on WHO support to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa 27 January 2011
Technical Consultation on the Public Health Problems Caused by Harmful Use of Alcohol
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo 11-12 May 2006