Celebrating the anniversary of the #UNCharter, which gave birth to #GlobalHealth Governance:
 including “health” under General Assembly (art. 13),
finding international health cooperation among purposes of ECOSOC (art. 55) &
advocating for establishment of @WHO (art. 57)

In drafting the #UNCharter, states did not initially mention health at the 1945 San Francisco Conference, but the Brazilian (G.H. da Paula Souza) and Chinese (Szeming Sze) delegations developed a Declaration to propose an international health conference.

The UN’s June-July 1946 International Health Conference in New York would adopt the Constitution of the World Health Organization — establishing an Interim Commission to subsume within @WHO all of the health responsibilities of the #LeagueOfNations, #OIHP & #UNRRA.

The first World Health Assembly, with 54 states, met in June 1948 to establish @WHO as the first @UN specialized agency & lay out WHO’s mandate for realizing public health.
(WHO accession to the UN by UN Secretary General Trygvie Lie & WHO Director-General Brock Chisholm)