Membership

Benefits of CIOMS membership include:

• Receiving the quarterly CIOMS Newsletter
• All member organizations receive one hard copy of new CIOMS publications free. New member organizations joining receive copies of those publications that were printed in the 12 months prior to their joining date.
• Information on a regular basis about major developments in WHO, as well as background papers relevant to CIOMS constituencies. The CIOMS secretariat can also offer to raise concerns from or issue statements of support from its member organizations.
• Information about UNESCO activities
• High level information about the developments in ICH, in particular about the topics that are related to medical sciences. CIOMS can also be the voice of its members relating ICH technical guidelines where and when needed.
• Being invited to participate in CIOMS governance through the General Assembly.
• Having the opportunity to be elected to CIOMS Executive Committee.

There are 3 categories of CIOMS Membership:

a. International members, namely organizations of a worldwide character, devoted to the encouragement of scientific research into the principles underlying health and into the causes of diseases, or the application of the medical sciences to the prevention and cure of diseases and to the promotion of public health;

b. National members, namely national organizations devoted to the encouragement of scientific research into the principles underlying health and into the causes of diseases, or the application of the medical sciences to the prevention and cure of diseases and to the promotion of public health, as defined in separate regulations of the General Assembly;

c. Associate members, namely International organizations and National institutions, which do not meet the conditions of admission above.

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Existing member organizations of CIOMS can log in to the Member Area to pay their annual fees.

Documents for member organizations can be accessed here:

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