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Overview

Official name

International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering

Acronym (if applicable)

IFMBE

Short self description

IFMBE is the federation of national and transnational societies on biomedical engineering

Website

http://www.ifmbe.org

Web link to health relevant activities

Parent entity (if applicable)

The entity you represent is indicated as a parent of the following entities in the Register:

N / A

Date submitted

30 Jan 2025 08:38:00 PM

General information

Name

Official name

International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering

Acronym (if applicable)

IFMBE

Commonly used name (if applicable)

IFMBE

Names in other official languages (if applicable) Name Abbreviation

International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering

IFMBE

Fédération Internationale de génie biologiqie et médical

Former name

Short self description

IFMBE is the federation of national and transnational societies on biomedical engineering

Address

Address 1

Focal Point IFMBE (Marc Nyssen)

Address 2

JB Vandercammenstraat 25

Address 3

Town/City

Oudergem

State/Region

Brussels

Postal code

B-1160

Country

Belgium

Related links

Website

http://www.ifmbe.org

Governance

Legal status

International not for profit organisation

Year established

1960

Governance structure

Description of main decision making bodies (e.g. board, board of directors, executive board, executive committee, etc).

Name of body

Administrative Council

Composition and current list of members Name Function Affiliation

Subrata SAHA

Member

University of Washington, USA

Martha ZEQUERA DIAZ

Member

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Jari HYTTINEN

Member

Tampere University Finland

Piotr LADYZYNSKI

Member

Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Virginia Laura BALLARIN

Member

Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina

lchiro SAKUMA

Member

University of Tokyo, Japan

Ernesto IADANZA

Council of Societies Chair

University of Pisa, Italy

Metin AKAY

IAMBE Chair

University of Houston, USA

Fabiola MARTINEZ

Clinical Engineering Division Chair

Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico

MURILO CONTÓ

Health Technology Assessment Division Chair

Boston Scientific do Brasil, Brasil

Paulo DE CARVALHO

Digital Health Division Chair

University of Coimbra, Portugal

Hairong ZHENG

Asian-Pacific representative

Chinese Academy of Science, China

Lenka LHOTSKA

Euroean representative

Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Elliot VERNET

Latin-American representative

Mexican Society of Biomedical Engineering

Marie-Ange JANVIER

North-American representative

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Canada

Ashenafi HUSSEIN

Interim African Region Representative

Ministry of Technology, Ethopia

Functions

Council members

Name of body

Officers of the Federation

Composition and current list of members Name Function Affiliation

Krishnan Shankar

Former President

Wentworth University Boston

Kang Ping Lin

President Elect

Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, China

Leandro Pecchia

Secretary General

University Campus Biomedico, Italy

Ratko Magjarevic

President

University of Zagreb

Maria Fernanda Cabrera Umpiérrez

Treasurer

Madrid Polytechnic University

Functions

Daily management of the Federation

General Assembly

Does the entity have a General Assembly of members or a similar body?

Yes

Name

General Assembly

Composition

All regular member associations have vote(s) in the General Assembly. This is the most supreme international decision making body.

Functions

a) to establish the policy of the Federation,
b) to elect the officers of the Federation,
c) to elect members of the Administrative Council,
d) to receive, and to approve or reject, reports and recommendations of the Administrative Council,
e) to make recommendations to the Administrative Council as required,
f) to add or to amend the Constitution and Bylaws as required, and
g) to initiate action to further the aims and objectives of the Federation as set out in Article 3 of this Constitution by means consistent with the Constitution
and Bylaws. A General Assembly shall be convened by the Administrative Council at such times and places as are prescribed in the Bylaws.

A meeting of the General Assembly will be convened by the Administrative Council on petition of at least twenty per cent of the Member Organizations.

The business of the General Assembly may be carried out by postal or electronic mail as specified in the Bylaws.

Financial information

Latest available annual income (month/year)

From

January

2023

January

2024

Annual income (USD)

344,078

Latest available assets (month/year)

As of

January

2024

Total assets (USD)

2,015,000

Income sources (in USD)

Income source Income type

Private sector entities (including business associations)

Philanthropic foundations

NGOs, academic institutions

Government entities, intergovernmental organizations, including UN

General public, individuals

Total

Sales of goods and services *

330,260

Grants / Donations

In-kind donations

Membership fees

13,818

Investment income

Others

Total

344,078

* income from congresses / conferences should be listed under Sales of goods and services

Additional information

Income from scientific publications (peer reviewed journal and conference publications) and from conferences

Membership

Entity's members

Is the entity you represent membership based?

Yes

Overview of categories and their voting rights in the main governing body:

Total number Voting

Individuals

NGOs

Private sector entities

Philanthropic foundations

Academic institutions

Government entities

Intergovernmental organizations

Organizational Structure

Parent entity

In the register Registered Entity Entity Name

No data available

Yes

Legal status

Affiliated entities (or subsidiaries)

In the register Registered Entity Entity Name

No data available

Yes

none

Relations

Entity's membership in other entities

In the register Registered Entity Entity Name Type of membership

No data available

Yes

International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM)

Member of

Yes

World Federation of Engineering Organisations(WFEO)

Member of

Members of the entity

In the register Registered Entity Member Name

No data available

Yes

AAMI-Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation

Yes

ACCE-American College of Clinical Engineering

Yes

AIIC - Associazione Italiana Ingegneri Clinici

Yes

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Yes

Asociación Colegio de Ingenieria Biomedica (ACIBES)

Yes

Asociacion Colombiana De Bioingenieria Y Electronica Medica

Yes

Association of Biomedical Engineering Technologists of Benin (ATGBB)

Yes

Association of Biomedical Engineers and Technicians, DR Congo

Yes

Association of Medical Engineering of Kenya (AMEK)

Yes

Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Medica e Biologica (AIIMB)

Yes

Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering

Yes

Belgian Society for Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Yes

Bioengineering Venezuelan Society

Yes

Biomedical / Clinical Engineering Association of Ireland

Yes

Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore)

Yes

Biomedical Engineering Society in Vietnam

Yes

Biomedical Engineering Society of South Africa (BESSA)

Yes

Biomedisch Technologen in de Zorg (BMTZ)

Yes

Bosnia and Herzegovina Medical and Biological Engineering Society

Yes

Bulgarian Society of Biomedical Physics and Engineering

Yes

Chilean Society of Health Informatics(ACHISA)

Yes

Chinese Society Of Biomedical Enginering

Yes

Clinical Engineering Association of South African (CEASA)

Yes

College Of Biomedical Engineers, Engineeres Australia

Yes

CORAL - Latin American Regional Council on Biomedical Engineering

Yes

Costa Rican Asociate Bio Engenier Electromedicine(ACOBEM)

Yes

Croatian Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics Society

Yes

Cyprus Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Yes

Czech Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics

Yes

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik im VDE e.V.

Yes

Estonian Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics

Yes

Ethiopian Society of Biomedical Engineers and Technologists

Yes

European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering & Science

Yes

Finnish Society for Medical Physics and Medical Engineering

Yes

Ghana Society of Biomedical Engineers

Yes

Hellenic Society of Biomedical Technology

Yes

IEEE EMBS-IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Yes

Institute of Medical Engineering and Clinics

Yes

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Yes

Israel Society of Medical and Biological Engineering

Yes

Japan Association for Clinical Engineers

Yes

Japanese Society For Medical & Biological Engineering

Yes

Latvian Medical Engineering and Physics Society

Yes

Lithuanian Society for Biomedical Engineering

Yes

Macau Society Of Biomedical Engineering

Yes

Mexican Society of Biomedical Engineering (SOMIB)

Yes

Moldovan Biomedical Engineering Society

Yes

Mongolian Society of Biomedical Engineering

Yes

Nigerian Institute for Biomedical Engineering (NIBE)

Yes

Panamanian Association of Biomedical Engineering (APIB)

Yes

Peruvian Bioengineering Association APBIO

Yes

Polish Scientific and Tedchnical Committee for Biomedical Engineering of SEP

Yes

Polish Society for Biomedical Engineering

Yes

rian IFMBE member society (Bio-medical Informatics Section of John von Neumann Computer Society

Yes

Rwanda Association of Biomedical Engineering (RAME)

Yes

Slovak Society of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics

Yes

Sociedad Argentina de Bioiingeniería

Yes

Sociedad Cubana de Bioingenieria

Yes

Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (SEIB, Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering)

Yes

Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia Biomédica

Yes

Societatea Na?ionala de Inginerie Medicala ?i Tehnologie Biologica

Yes

Societe Française de Génie Biologique et Médical

Yes

Societies of Thai Biomedical Engineering

Yes

Society AFIB Association Francaise des Ingeniurs Biomedicaux

Yes

Society of Medical and Biological Engineering, Malaysia (MSMBE)

Yes

SPEB – Sociedade Portuguesa de Engenharia Biomedica

Yes

Swedish Society for Medical engineering, MTF

Yes

Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering

Yes

Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering

Yes

The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (CMBES)

Yes

The Danish Biomedical Society

Yes

The Hong Kong Institution Of Engineers-Biomedical Division

Yes

The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering

Yes

The Netherlands' Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering

Yes

The Slovenian society for medical and biological engineering (DMBTS)

Yes

Uganda National Association for Medical and Hospital Engineering

Activities

Aims (or purposes, objectives) of the entity as they appear in its constitution or by-laws or equivalent document.

The mission of the IFMBE is to encourage, support, represent and unify the world-wide Medical and Biological Engineering community in order to promote health and quality of life through advancement of research, development, application and management of technology.

The activities of the entity are related to the following strategic priorities and outcomes of the current WHO's General Programme of Work:

Strategic objective 1: Respond to climate change, an escalating health threat in the 21st century.

Joint outcome 1.1. More climate-resilient health systems are addressing health risks and impacts.

Joint outcome 1.2. Lower-carbon health systems and societies are contributing to health and well-being.

Strategic objective 2: Address health determinants and the root causes of ill health in key policies across sectors.

Joint outcome 2.1. Health inequities reduced by acting on social, economic, environmental and other determinants of health.

Joint outcome 2.2. Priority risk factors for noncommunicable and communicable diseases, violence and injury, and poor nutrition, reduced through multisectoral approaches.

Joint outcome 2.3. Populations empowered to control their health through health promotion programmes and community involvement in decision-making.

Strategic objective 3: Advance the primary health care approach and essential health system capacities for universal health coverage.

Joint outcome 3.1. The primary health care approach renewed and strengthened to accelerate universal health coverage.

Joint outcome 3.2. Health and care workforce, health financing and access to quality-assured health products substantially improved.

Joint outcome 3.3. Health information systems strengthened and digital transformation implemented.

Strategic objective 4: Improve health service coverage and financial protection to address inequity and gender inequalities.

Joint outcome 4.1. Equity in access to quality services improved for noncommunicable diseases, mental health conditions and communicable diseases, while addressing antimicrobial resistance.

Joint outcome 4.2. Equity in access to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent and older person health and nutrition services and immunization coverage improved.

Joint outcome 4.3. Financial protection improved by reducing financial barriers and out-of-pocket health expenditures, especially for the most vulnerable.

Strategic objective 5: Prevent, mitigate and prepare for risks to health from all hazards.

Joint outcome 5.1. Risks of health emergencies from all hazards reduced and impact mitigated.

Joint outcome 5.2. Preparedness, readiness and resilience for health emergencies enhanced.

Strategic objective 6: Rapidly detect and sustain an effective response to all health emergencies.

Joint outcome 6.1. Detection of and response to acute public health threats is rapid and effective.

Joint outcome 6.2. Access to essential health services during emergencies is sustained and equitable.

Additional information on the entity's activities

Medical Devices
Clinical Engineering
Health Technology Assessment
Digital Health

Country presence

Countries where the entity has activities, members and regional offices / representatives:

Regions

Countries

Activities

Members

Offices / representatives

African Region

Region of the Americas

Eastern Mediterranean Region

European Region

South-East Asia Region

Western Pacific Region

Global

Disclosure & declaration

Tobacco/Arms related disclosure statement for non-State actors

Pursuant the WHO Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors, WHO does not engage with the tobacco industry or non-State actors that work to further the interests of the tobacco industry. WHO also does not engage with the arms industry.

For the purposes of this statement:

tobacco industry means any entity involved in the manufacture, sale or distribution of tobacco and related products, and any affiliate of such entity; and
arms industry means any entity involved in the manufacture, sale or distribution of arms, and any affiliate of such entity.

This disclosure statement needs to be provided by any nongovernmental organization, private sector entity, philanthropic foundation and academic institution prior to engaging with WHO.

In view of the foregoing, please answer the following questions:

Is your entity, or was your entity over the last four years, part of the tobacco or arms industries (as defined above)?

Yes

No

Unable to answer

To the best of your entity’s knowledge, is your entity, or has your entity over the last four years, engaged in activities that are aimed at furthering or supporting the interests of the tobacco industry? This includes, but is not limited to, supply contracts, contract work, services and lobbying.

Yes

No

Unable to answer

To the best of your entity’s knowledge, does your entity currently, or did your entity over the last four years, have any other association or relationship with the tobacco industry (as defined above). This includes in particular investment interests (other than general mutual funds or similar arrangements whereby your entity has no control over the selection of the investments), commercial business interests, the provision or receipt of financial and/or other support.

Yes

No

Unable to answer

If you have answered yes to any of the above or are unable to answer one or more questions, please provide a general statement of explanation.

Please note that the WHO Secretariat reserves the right to request additional information from your entity in this regard.

By providing this statement, your entity commits to promptly inform WHO of any change to the above information and to complete a new statement that describes the changes.

Engagement with other industries affecting human health or affected by WHO norm and standards

Does the entity you represent have any formal association, affiliation or links with the following industry sectors?

If yes, please tick the box of the industry concerned and provide details in the space provided:

Alcohol

Chemical

Food and beverages

Health care

Pharmaceutical

Others

Please specify industry

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*Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH) and Misconduct (abusive or fraudulent)

Entities engaging with WHO are expected to ensure that the conduct of their employees and any other persons engaged by them to perform any activities or to provide any services for WHO on behalf of the entities is consistent with the WHO standards of conduct. In particular, WHO has zero tolerance towards any form of sexual misconduct, which includes sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, sexual violence, and sexual harassment, and other types of abusive or fraudulent conduct. In the view of the forgoing, please confirm that your entity shall:

Take all reasonable and appropriate measures to prevent sexual misconduct as defined in WHO’s Policy on Preventing and Addressing Sexual Misconduct, and other types of abusive or fraudulent conduct as defined, respectively, in WHO’s Policy on Preventing and Addressing Abusive Conduct and in WHO’s Policy on Prevention, Detection and Response to Fraud and Corruption by any of its employees and by any other persons engaged by it to perform any activities or to provide any services for WHO on the entity’s behalf;

Promptly report to WHO’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (IOS) at investigation@who.int any actual or suspected misconduct, as defined by WHO in these Policies and of which the entity becomes aware;

Promptly communicate to IOS any measures that may be necessary or appropriate to protect the confidentiality and wellbeing of the alleged victim;

Promptly respond to any actual or suspected misconduct as defined by WHO in these Policies of which the entity becomes aware; and

To cooperate with IOS and keep IOS informed of the status and outcome of any measures of protection, corrections to operations, investigation, and disciplinary action taken against any perpetrator by the entity.

Date submitted