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About WHO South-East Asia

One of the six WHO Regions, WHO South-East Asia is home to a quarter of the world’s population.

Committed to building a better, healthier future for the nearly two billion people in the Region, WHO is working with the 10 Member States to address persisting and emerging epidemiological and demographic challenges.

Officer-in-Charge

WHO South-East Asia Regional Director Saima Wazed is currently on leave.

During this period, Dr Catharina Boehme is serving as Officer-in-Charge.

Regional Director

Prioritization update

Roadmap to results

Evaluation reports

Reassignment of Indonesia

Indonesia reassigned to WHO Western Pacific Region

On 23 May 2025, at the Seventy-eighth session of the World Health Assembly Member States approved the request from the Government of Indonesia for the country’s reassignment from the South-East Asia Region to the Western Pacific Region.

Global Leprosy Programme

The Global Leprosy Programme (GLP) of the World Health Organization is housed in the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (and not in the Organization’s headquarters in Geneva). It is the Organization’s designated programme for addressing leprosy worldwide. Being classified as one of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the unit works in close collaboration with the Department of Control of NTDs in HQ, designated focal points in all regions, national leprosy programmes and partners.

World Health Day 2025

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Regional Committee

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Independent External Review of EPI-VPD surveillance in Thailand, 1-8 September 2025

Thailand’s Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) surveillance system underwent a comprehensive external...

Subnational implementation review workshop of the Big Catch-Up (BCU) immunization initiative
in priority countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region

The WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (WHO-SEARO) convened the subnational implementation review workshop of the Big Catch-Up (BCU) immunization...

An evaluation of Odisha’s urban public health system

The report documents good practices and outlines the primary challenges facing Odisha’s urban health care model from both supply and demand perspectives,...

Regional consultation to develop a Practical Guide on Immunization Waste Management, 8–9 December 2025

Regional Consultation to Develop a Practical Guide on Immunization Waste Management was organized jointly by WHO Regional office for South-East Asia (SEARO)...