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Chairperson for Committee A, Dr Silvia Paula Valentim Lutucuta, Minster of Health of Angola, delivers her closing remarks

Chairperson for Committee B, Mr Herbert Barnard from the Netherlands, gives his closing speech

Delegates listen closing remarks during World Health Assembly

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, delivering the closing speech for the World Health Assembly

Delegates in Committee A discussing health issues, such as promoting health of refugees and migrants, and access to medicines and vaccines

Safe hearing installation is on display at the World Health Assembly

Installation on health workers by artist Dairo Vargas at 72nd World Health Assembly

Chairperson for Committee A, Dr Silvia Paula Valentim Lutucuta, Minster of Health of Angola

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, together with Michel Sidibé, Minister of Health of Mali and Ms Michèle Boccoz, WHO Director-General Envoy for Multilateral Affairs

A delegate at the 72nd World Health Assembly walks past the WHO values charter display, signed by WHO staff.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and winners of the public health prizes 2019 at the Awards ceremony – Seventy-second World Health Assembly, May 2019

Dr Askwar Hilonga from the United Republic of Tanzania accepts the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize.

Professor Balram Bhargava from India accepts the Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health.

Professor Judith Ndongo Embola Torimiro from Cameroon accepts the Sasakawa Health Prize.

Dr Pilar Sáez López, Geriatrician and coordinator of the Spanish National Registry of Hip Fractures, accepts 'His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Prize for Research in Health Care for the Elderly and in Health Promotion' on behalf of the Aging and Fragility in the Elderly Group of the Research Institute of La Paz Hospital in Spain

Dr Than Lwin Tun from the Health Promotion Unit of the Department of Public Health of the Ministry of Health Sports of Myanmar, accepts the 'Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health' on behalf of the Unit.

Dr Wieslawa De Pawlikowski, Director of the Office of International Affairs for the Ministry of Health of Peru, accepts the 'Sasakawa Health Prize' on behalf of Dr Mr Eusebio Quispe Rodríguez

Dr Norihiro Kokudo, President of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine accepts the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize, on behalf of the Centre

The CUBE, or Biosecure Emergency Care Unit for Outbreaks, which is a self-contained and easily transportable system for outbreaks of highly-infectious diseases, is at display as part of exhibitions throughout the World Health Assembly.

Participants listen to discussions on health workforce during the technical briefing

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, stresses the importance of investing in health sector jobs, as a participant photographs the technical briefing panel

The new WHO Goodwill Ambassador for the Health Workforce, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President of the Republic of Liberia (l), together with Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General (c), and James Chau, Chinese journalist (r)

Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus presented the Director-General's Special Recognition Award to Tawfiq Al Rabiah, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Health, who was instrumental in the adoption of tobacco plain packaging in 🇸🇦 in December 2018

Delegates at the World Health Assembly agreed three resolutions on universal health coverage.

Visitors to the selfie booth show their support for universal health coverage in the Americas by having their photo taken

Committee A special session on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Oly Ilunga Kalenga addresses Committee A about Ebola crisis

Chairperson for Committee A, Dr Silvia Paula Valentim Lutucuta, Minster of Health of Angola, listening to discussions on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

'Live from WHA' features discussions on about vaccines, youth health, ageing and access to health care

Suerie Moon, Research Director and Co-Chair of the Forum on Global Governance for Health at the Harvard Global Health Institute, participating in discussions at the World Health Assembly

A visitor to the End Polio booth experiences a virtual reality viewing of children with polio

WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti discussing Ebola situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dr Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, the vaccine alliance, speaking about vaccines and universal health coverage on the show

Visitors to the interactive booth take a break from sessions with physical activity

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, at the opening of the Seventy-Second World Health Assembly

Dr Bounkong Syhavong (r), Minister of Health of Laos has been elected as the President of the 72nd World Health Assembly.

Delegates listening to speeches during the opening of the first plenary meeting

Cultural performance from Laos

Delegates at the World Health Assembly during the opening of the first plenary meeting

First Lady of Kenya, Margaret Kenyatta (c), together with Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General during the opening of the World Health Assmebly

WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus presents global health medal to Natasha Chibesa Wang Mwansa from Zambia

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros honours late Dr Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, together with Manaouda Malachie, Minister of Public Health of Cameroon, Madame Mouzoko and her eldest daughter Margaret Danielle Lydie Ketna

From left: Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, WHO Regional Director for the Americas and Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa

James Chau, journalist from China, together with Cynthia Germanotta, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for mental health

Agnes Buzyn, Minister of Health of France and Jens Spahn, Minister of Health of Germany unveil statues of Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, together with WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus