Implementing WHO's global strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: what next? (Editorial)

In May 2018, the Seventy-first World Health Assembly, bringing together 194 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO), unanimously adopted the Organization's thirteenth General Programme of Work) 2023-2019 GPW. (1) (13 GPW 13 will guide WHO's work for at least the next five years. It is closely linked to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: (2) essentially, it specifies strategic priorities and goals that need to be achieved globally by 2023 to keep on track with achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. (3).