World Health Assembly Model by Youth for WHO

At the end of the 2015 year I participated in a project World Health Assembly Model 2015, that was held by an organization called “Youth for WHO” and the partner university was Tbilisi State Medical University, where the event took place.

About the organization

Founded on 28-th of May 2015, the organization “Youth for WHO” works to popularize World Health Organisation, its purposes and issues. Therefore it plans trainings, meetings, conferences and things like that to achieve its goals. So, as I’ve mentioned, the organization was founded not so long ago and their projects so far are: Tbilisi World Health Assembly Model 2015 (it’s the first one in held in Europe), Training about Motivation Theory (presented by Chairman of organization), Training about Tobacco Epidemiology in Georgia.

Besides the staff, there were 80 participants in the World Health Assembly Model 2015, and they were all divided into groups, well, to be exact, in 4 committees:

• World Health Organization Development Committee;
• Medical Ethics Review Committee;
• World Health Infectious Diseases Prevention Committee;
• World Health Organization Drug Expert Committee.

So this World Health Assembly Model was the first one in this field in Georgia and everyone was interested how it would go and what the participants would think and so on. It lasted three days in total and was pretty good, I think.

Day 1

I had some lectures in the university in the morning so I had organisers and other staff warned about me being a little late and, therefore, there was no problem about that. When I arrived, there still was not all the participants gathered yet and I was kind of relieved because of that _ it meant that I wasn't really late, right? There were some friends in the hall that I hadn't seen for a long time and we chatted about all the different things, of course, till the other people came.

So, I was in the organising staff and we had some things to be done before the event started. There were all these certificates and badges and workbooks, pens, etc. to be placed in order and some desks to be rearranged and so on. We made sure that everything was in their place and nothing was out of order. So we did.

Well, one of the journalists there told the organizers that it was not her first participation in events like this and, fortunately, there was almost every organizing issue in order and they hadn’t bumped into any serious problem. So that, I guess, we did a good job organizing.

The first day is always the hardest, if you ask me, so it was a pretty hard day to conclude. However, everyone had a great time socializing with each other and stuff like that. The delegates of different countries had their opinions presented about issues the committees had mentioned. There were some really interesting arguments in some committees and one would be curious to listen to them.

There were some delegates already kind of established themselves as they presented their views, well, in fact, that was their countries’ views on those issues, so that they tried to speak according to those countries they represented.

They played some games, too. To be exact, the organizing staff helped them play some games and it was pretty fun and they just relaxed in between the arguments and all the working. In general, when you see someone getting tired on such projects, you should entertain them and let them have a break for a couple of minutes, because a brain needs a break and after that it functions better than it did before.

At the end of the first day, the delegates started a game called “Secret Friend” (I’m sure you know that game) and so they found out who was the person they should have made some presents and stuff for.

Day 2

The second day was better, if you ask me, because we kind of got to know each other and got to know the environment and stuff like that. We were more enthusiastic and organised. The delegates were more eager to work, too. They worked hard and some of them even finished their work really early and left the building, because they didn't really have to do anything else there and some of them had other things to do, too, of course.

The end of the day was great. We all knew that we did something good and the day was not a waste of time. Everyone was looking forward to the next day _ the final day of the project, when the winners should have been announced and the closing ceremony was awaiting us!

Day 3

The third day was the General Assembly and a closing ceremony of the event. Everyone was excited. We had some organising things to get done and we were all in that large conference room and everything was just as planned. The committees presented their works and there was just one committee whose work was not appreciated much, but it was accepted on the second hearing.

There was a great debate between the delegates that was really amusing for some people. Then there was the sum up and comments about the event and then the awarding part, where there were certificates for all the participants and special prizes for the winners, of course!

The event ended and we were glad we participated in it. It was something really useful and I think there should be more events like this for people to participate.

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