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Our work in French Polynesia
The Health Department’s COVID-19 task force hosts a morning meeting attended by various members of the public health services.
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 range of partners on closely related public health activities; including research, evaluation, awareness raising and resource mobilization.
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Pacific Islands–WHO multi-country cooperation strategy 2024–2029
The Pacific Islands–WHO Multi-country Cooperation Strategy 2024–2029, or MCCS, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) through a consultative process involving 21 Pacific Island countries and areas (PICs), outlines WHO’s comprehensive and tailored medium-term support plan in the Pacific. This summary provides an overview of the MCCS, highlighting its alignment with regional and global health strategies.
Health system and health situation
French Polynesia’s health-care system comprises hospitals, health centres, clinics and dispensaries, led by the Ministry of Health. The people of French Polynesia face several challenges in terms of health, including NCDs, challenging health logistics across the country’s many islands and infectious disease risks. Critical health-care system concerns are linked to the remoteness and dispersion of the islands, with limited human resources for health in some remote areas, an ageing population, social inequalities and the effects of the climate crisis. Despite these challenges, French Polynesia is committed to UHC for its population, and to ensuring that even those on the most remote islands have access to high-quality health services.
Publications
The Pacific Islands–WHO Multi-country Cooperation Strategy 2024–2029, or MCCS, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) through a...
Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 20-22 September 2023: meeting report
The Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting brought together health leaders from across the Pacific, hosted by the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga...
Report of the Regional Director : the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region, 1 July 2022 - 30 June...
Covering the period from July 2022 to June 2023, this Report highlights how WHO in the Western Pacific Region has worked to turn the hard lessons of the...
Report of the Regional Director : the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region, 1 July 2021 - 30 June...
This report, covering the period from July 2021 to June 2022, highlights how WHO continued supporting countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region...
The Pacific Island Countries and Areas–WHO Cooperation Strategy 2018–2022 (the “Cooperation Strategy”) documents the medium-term...
WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2018-2022 : French Polynesia
French Polynesia is a French territorial overseas community comprising 35 volcanic islands and about 183 low-lying coral atolls. It covers 4167 million...
Health information systems in the Pacific at a glance 2016
This report provides a 2016 snapshot of the status of national health information systems (HIS) in the Pacific. The Meeting on Strengthening Health Information...