Theme: 'My health, my right’. 

This year’s theme was chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination. 

The seventy-fourth session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for the Western Pacific was held in Manila, Philippines, from 16 to 20 October 2023.

Health leaders from 18 Pacific island countries and areas (PICs) convened in the Tongan capital of Nuku’alofa for the Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting (15th PHMM). During the meeting, held from 20 to 22 September, health leaders committed to 26 coordinated actions to tackle priority health issues: human resources for health, health information systems and digital health, health system resilience, and obesity among children and young people. 

The Regional Office for the Western Pacific continues to build upon WHO’s rich tradition of photography by amplifying the voices of a creative new generation. This exhibition looks back at the public health successes that have improved lives across the Region over the past three quarters of a century and highlights future health challenges.