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SUMMARY:IARC GOVERNING COUNCIL SIXTY-NINTH SESSION
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Dr Al-Hareth Al-Khater - Vice Chairperson (Qatar)\, 
 Professor Dorothy Keefe - Chaiperson (Australia)\n\n\nWelcome to the Sixty
 -Ninth Session of the IARC Governing Council\nThe International Agency for
  Research on Cancer (IARC) was established in May 1965 through a resolutio
 n of the Eighteenth World Health Assembly\, as an extension of the World H
 ealth Organization (WHO)\, after a French initiative. As a WHO Agency\, IA
 RC follows the general governing rules of the United Nations family. Howev
 er\, it is governed by its own governing bodies: the IARC Governing Counci
 l and the IARC Scientific Council.\nGoverning Council\nIARC’s general po
 licy is directed by a Governing Council\, composed of the Representatives 
 of Participating States and of the WHO Director-General. Its research prog
 ramme is regularly reviewed by a Scientific Council. The Governing Council
  elects IARC’s Director\, who normally serves for a five-year term.\nIn 
 May 2023\, the Governing Council elected Dr Elisabete Weiderpass (Brazil) 
 as Director of the Agency\, for a five-year term. She took office on 1 Jan
 uary 2024.\nThe IARC Governing Council meets every year in ordinary sessio
 n\, usually two weeks before the WHO World Health Assembly.\n\nhttps://eve
 nts.iarc.who.int/event/148/
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LOCATION:Web conference
URL:https://events.iarc.who.int/event/148/
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