On November 26, 2013 a meeting of O.A. Kazanskaya, the vice governor of St. Petersburg, with Dr. Agis Tsouros, the head manager of the Healthy Cities project and a special representative of the European Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), took place in Smolny in association with the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg.
On November 26, 2013 a meeting of O.A. Kazanskaya, the vice governor of St. Petersburg, with Dr. Agis Tsouros, the head manager of the Healthy Cities project and a special representative of the European Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), took place in Smolny in association with the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg.
The meeting had a ceremonial nature within the framework of the 1st Russian Forum Healthy Cities with international participants, organized by the Government of St. Petersburg and the Russian Healthy Cities, Districts and Villages Association. At this Forum St. Petersburg was granted the Certificate of an accredited member of the Healthy Cities Network of the European Office of the WHO.
St. Petersburg membership in the WHO European Healthy Cities network is confirmed by the Resolution of the St. Petersburg Government No.169 dated March 19, 2013.
The International Healthy Cities project was initiated by the WHO in 1986 for the support of the UN Health for All strategy. The main aim of the Healthy Cities project is to make the health of people one of the main priorities of the city policy, to work out and adopt the strategy of health and sustainable development of each city. The project serves to maximal coordination of efforts of different structures at the municipal, national and international levels aimed at preservation and promotion of people’s health, health equality, priority of health and welfare in social development strategies.
St. Petersburg joins Phase VI of the project, which will last from 2014 till 2018. During the meeting Dr. Agis Tsouros, the head manager of the Healthy Cities project, covered the main objectives of Phase VI, the priorities of which are development of comfortable city environment, improvement of the people’s quality of life, overcoming of health inequality, increase in the involvement of the city leaders in the decision of problems concerning public health protection.
For more information please call 576-78-44 – Natalia Vladimirovna Strugova, the chief specialist of the Department of International Collaboration for Central and South Europe, USA, Canada and Israel