Regional Meeting of WHO Collaborating Centers for Mental Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

plans at national, regional and global levels in different disciplines.1 Moving from “bilateral relations” toward “multilateral networks” is a new paradigm of relationship among WHOCCs, introduced by the Executive Board of WHO in January 2000. This idea2 fosters the WHOCCs to strengthen their national and international capacity for training, research and collaboration for health development. Among 48 WHOCCs in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 16 are located in Iran, where a joint meeting convened in June 2014 with the aim of understanding the terms of reference and potentials of each center.3 Among all members in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, three collaborating centers for mental health are located in Morocco, Iran and Pakistan. Regarding the new paradigm of collaboration, this meeting has been designed and has brought together WHOCCs for mental health of the EMR to collaborate