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===Country and liaison offices===
The World Health Organization operates 150 country offices in six different regions.<ref name="peopleandoffices">{{cite web |date=29 March 2012 |title=WHO its people and offices |url=https://www.who.int/about/structure/en/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127084215/http://www.who.int/about/structure/en/index.html |archive-date=27 January 2012 |access-date=9 February 2012 |publisher=WHO}}</ref> It also operates several liaison offices, including those with the [[European Union]], United Nations and a single office covering the [[World Bank]] and [[International Monetary Fund]]. It also operates the [[International Agency for Research on Cancer]] in [[Lyon]], France, and the [[WHO Centre for Health Development]] in [[Kobe]], Japan.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHO liaison and other offices |url=https://www.who.int/about/who_offices/en/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204020414/http://www.who.int/about/who_offices/en/index.html |archive-date=4 February 2012 |access-date=29 March 2012 |publisher=WHO}}</ref> Additional offices include those in [[Pristina]]; the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]]; the US-Mexico Border Field Office in [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]]; the Office of the Caribbean Program Coordination in Barbados; and the Northern Micronesia office.<ref name="detailedinformation">{{cite web |title=Detailed information of WHO offices in countries, territories and areas |url=https://www.who.int/countryfocus/country_offices/details/en/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617065946/http://www.who.int/countryfocus/country_offices/details/en/index.html |archive-date=17 June 2012 |access-date=29 March 2012 |publisher=WHO}}</ref> There will generally be one WHO country office in the capital, occasionally accompanied by satellite-offices in the provinces or sub-regions of the country in question.

The country office is headed by a WHO Representative (WR). {{As of|2010}}, the only WHO Representative outside Europe to be a national of that country was for the [[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]] ("Libya"); all other staff was international. WHO Representatives in the Region termed the Americas are referred to as PAHO/WHO Representatives. In Europe, WHO Representatives also serve as head of the country office, and are nationals except for Serbia; there are also heads of the country office in Albania, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.<ref name="detailedinformation" /> The WR is a member of the [[United Nations System|UN system]] country team which is coordinated by the UN System [[Resident Coordinator]].

The country office consists of the WR, and several health and other experts, both foreign and local, as well as the necessary support staff.<ref name="peopleandoffices" /> The main functions of WHO country offices include being the primary adviser of that country's government in matters of health and pharmaceutical policies.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHO Country Office (Hungary) |url=http://www.euro.who.int/en/where-we-work/member-states/hungary/who-country-office |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617075611/http://www.euro.who.int/en/where-we-work/member-states/hungary/who-country-office |archive-date=17 June 2012 |access-date=31 March 2012 |publisher=WHO EURO}}</ref>