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The HPA was officially
designated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating
Centre for Training and Research in Communications and Information
Technology in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in November
2000 by Dr
Marc Danzon, Regional Director of WHO's Regional Office for
Europe.
WHO Europe's
work is supported by a network of collaborating centres. These
are internationally recognised centres of excellence that
have made formal agreements with WHO to contribute to work
in specific areas and through agreed programmes of activity.
The HPA is working
with WHO in a number of areas including the Countrywide Integrated
Noncommunicable Diseases Intervention (CINDI)
Programme, research surveys, projects aimed at further developing
health promoting settings and a variety of communication,
education and training initiatives.
The designation
of the centre will be effective for a period of four years
and
Dr Brian Gaffney, as Chief Executive of the Agency, is designated
as head of the Centre.
"This is a tremendous
achievement for all of us and I would like to acknowledge
the hard work and effort that the Agency and its staff have
put into achieving this status."
Bairbre de Brún, Minister for Health, Social Services
and Public Safety, commenting on the official designation
of the Agency as a WHO Collaborating Centre (3 May 2001).
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