Welcome to the South Pacific Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), located in Suva, Fiji. The sheer size of the South Pacific Region equates to an incredibly diverse group of people and health situations.
Our office operates under the umbrella of the Western Pacific regional office, and our role is to act as a catalyst and advocate for action at all levels, from local to global, on health issues of public concern. We work together with a broad spectrum of partners from all sectors of society, WHO is involved in a host of closely related public health activities; including research, databanking, evaluation, awareness raising and resource mobilization.
Our purpose is to lead the regional response to public health issues on all fronts - medical, technical, socio-economic, cultural, legal and political - towards the achievement of WHO's global health mission which is to support all countries and peoples in their quest to achieve the highest attainable level of health, defined in the WHO Constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
Below is a list of countries from within the South Pacific Region that our office works with, please select any of these for a detailed situation analysis:
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
Marshall Is
Micronesia, Federated States of
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Mariana Islands, Northern
Nauru
Palau
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Wallis and Futuna