| EXPERTS GROUP 
  
 In August 2015, an Experts Group came together in Manila to form the "Healthy Women, Healthy Economies" Policy Toolkit to support APEC government officials, policymakers, civil society and the private sector seeking to improve female economic participation through better health, cognizant that there is no one size fits all approach. The Policy Toolkit represents a menu of options that economies may pursue in part or as a whole on key issues on which they want to focus within the “Healthy Women, Healthy Economies” objective.
 The experts group was co-chaired by the Philippines (Department of Health, Philippine Commission on Women, and Department of Labor & Employment) and Merck.
 
Philippines, Co-Chair - Department of Health, Philippine Commission on Women, and Department of Labor and EmploymentMerck, Co-ChairUnited States, Project Overseer - Department of Health and Human Services, Department of State, Department of Labor, U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentAsian Development BankAsian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD)Australia - Department of HealthBSR HERProjectC&H GarmentsCanada - Embassy of Canada in the PhilippinesChile - Ministry of Foreign AffairsIndonesia - Ministry of Health, Ministry of ManpowerInternational Labour OrganizationJabilJhpiegoMalaysia - Ministry of Women, Kuala Lumpur & Putrajaya State Health DepartmentMexico - Secretariat of HealthMonash University, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, AustraliaNew Zealand - Health Quality and Safety CommissionPapua New Guinea - Ministry of Trade and CommercePeople’s Republic of China - National Health and Family Planning CommissionPeru - Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations, Ministry of Foreign AffairsRussian Federation - Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of the PhilippinesThailand - Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Social Development and Human SecurityU.S. National Cancer Institute, Center for Global HealthViet Nam - Ministry of LabourWomen Doctors AssociationWorld Bank |