World Health Organization Office for Northern Micronesia (Micronesia)

The WHO Representative Office in the South Pacific, located in Suva, Fiji, operates under the umbrella of the Western Pacific regional office, and our role is to act as a catalyst and advocate for action at all levels, from local to global, on health issues of public concern. We work together with a broad spectrum of partners from all sectors of society, WHO is involved in a host of closely related public health activities; including research, evaluation, awareness raising and resource mobilization.

It was decided that the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was to come under the WHO Representative Office in the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji in 1976. In August 2010 the establishment of the new WHO Country Liaison Office in the Federated States of Micronesia, covering the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau, was approved.