Dear HIFA Colleagues,
This is to invite you to participate in our International College of Surgeons World Health Assembly (ICS WHA) Side-Event, 17 May 2026, 17:30-19:30, Geneva, Switzerland.
This will bring together experts, policymakers, and civil societies to share their field experience and knowledge in contributing to actionable solutions for Building Sustainable Perioperative Capacity for 2035.
Please join us to work together in ‘Reimagining Perioperative Care for 2035’. ICS is a Non-State Actor in Official Relations with the WHO.
Detailed Agenda is also posted on Meena Nathan Cherian’s LinkedIn
Registration: <https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2FgcNWem... https://lnkd.in/gcNWemCc
ZOOM <https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2FgMNGSA... https://lnkd.in/gMNGSAqz
Best wishes
Dr. Meena Nathan Cherian, MBBS, MD (Anaesthesia)
(Former WHO Lead Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Program, Geneva, Switzerland).
Director, Global Health New Challenges: Geneva Foundation for Medical Education & Research, Switzerland. <http://www.gfmer.ch/surgery/cancer.htm> www.gfmer.ch/surgery/cancer.htm (NSA-WHO)
Senior Advisor Global Action International Society of Geriatric Oncology <https://siog.org/about-us/governance/leadership/permanent-committees/> Permanent Committees - SIOG
Senior Advisor, International College of Surgeons-Global Affairs. https://icsglobal.org/ (NSA-WHO)
Adjunct Prof.The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen,China. https://med.cuhk.edu.cn/en/teacher/371
WHO-HIFA Essential Health Services; mHEALTH-INNOVATE. www.hifa.org <http://www.hifa.org/> (NSA-WHO).
Geneva, Switzerland. <mailto:cherianm15@gmail.com> cherianm15@gmail.com
HIFA profile: Dr Meena Nathan Cherian was a professor of anaesthesiology from Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India. She trained, worked, and taught in several countries, USA (Johns Hopkins Hospital), Southeast Asia and Africa. She worked at the World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, as the Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Program Lead where she created the ‘surgical care’ program resulting in the first World Health Assembly Resolution on ‘Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anaesthesia in the context of Universal Health Coverage’. Currently she works as the Director, Global Health New Challenges program, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Geneva, Switzerland; Adjunct Prof. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China; Senior Advisor, Global Action, International Society of Geriatric Oncology, Switzerland; she is a member of the HIFA Steering Group; HIFA Partnerships and Projects Working Group; and HIFA mHEALTH-INNOVATE Working Group. cherianm15 AT gmail.com