Environmental health contact points in WHO Regional Offices and WHO Environmental Health Regional Technical Centres

Environmental health contact points in WHO Regional Offices and WHO Environmental Health Regional Technical Centres:

Africa
Director, Health Protection and Promotion (DHP)
World Health Organization
Regional Office for Africa
BP 6
Brazzaville
Congo

Tel: +242 83 91 11
Fax: +242 83 94 00

Americas
Director, Health and Environment (HEP)
World Health Organization
Regional Office for the Americas/Pan American Sanitary Bureau
525, 23rd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
USA

Tel: +1 202 974 30 00
Fax: +1 202 974 36 63

The Director
Pan American Regional Centre for Human Ecology and Health (ECO)
Ap/do postal 37-473
Mexico, D.F. 06696
Mexico

Tel: +52 72 711 086
Fax: +52 72 711 090

The Director
Pan American Centre for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences (CEPIS)
Casilla Postal 4337
Lima 100
Peru

Tel: +51 14 37 10 77
Fax: +51 14 37 82 89

Eastern Mediterranean
Director, Environmental Health Programme (DEH)
World Health Organization
Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
PO Box 1517
Alexandria - 21511
Egypt

Tel: +203 48 202 23
Fax: +203 48 38 916

The Coordinator
Centre for Environmental Health Activities (CEHA)
PO Box 926 967
Amman 11110
Jordan

Tel: +962 6 552 46 55
Fax: +962 6 553 16 57

Europe
Director, Environment and Health (DEH)
World Health Organization
Regional Office for Europe
8 Scherfigsvej
DK-2100 Copenhagen 0
Denmark

Tel: +45 39 17 17 17
Fax:+45 39 17 18 18

Assistant Director
European Centre for Environment and Health (ECEH) Bilthoven Division
PO Box 10
NL-3720 AA De Bilt
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 30 29 53 11
Fax: +31 30 29 42 52

Assistant Director
European Centre for Environment and Health (ECEH) Rome Division
Via Vincenzo Bona 67
I-00156 Roma
Italy

Tel: +39 6 411 66 40
Fax: +39 6 411 66 49

Assistant Director
European Centre for Environment and Health (ECEH) Nancy Project Office
149 Rue Gabriel-Péri
F54500 Vandoeuvre les Nancy
France

Tel: +33 83 15 87 70
Fax: +33 83 15 87 73

South East Asia
Chief, Environmental Health Programme (CEH)
World Health Organization
Regional Office for South-East Asia
World Health House
Indraprastha Estate
Mahatma Gandhi Road
New Delhi 110002
India

Tel: +91 11 331 7804
Fax: +91 11 331 8607

Western Pacific
Director, Health Protection and Promotion (DET)
World Health Organization
Regional Office for the Western Pacific
PO Box 2932
1099 Manila
Philippines

Tel: +632 521 80 01
Fax: +632 521 10 36

The Director
Western Pacific Regional Environmental Health Centre (EHC)
c/o The WHO Representative
PO Box 12550
50782 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Tel: +603 948 03 11
Fax: +603 948 23 49

This report is a WHO contribution to the five-year follow-up to the Earth Summit and an up-to-date assessment of the impact of environmental hazards on health at local, national and global levels. Health-and-environment trends arc analysed from the 1970s onwards and also used as the basis of projections.

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