Ministers of Health and high-level health officials will meet during the last week of October in Muscat, Oman, for the 60th WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean. The Regional Committee is WHO’s decision-making body in the Eastern Mediterranean Region with representation from all Member States of the Region. The Committee will review the progress made in the Region in 2012 in various health programmes and consider strategies and ways forward to build on achievements and overcome challenges to move the countries of the Region forward to better health.