Dr. William C. Menninger was elected chairman of the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S EXPERT COMMITTEE ON MENTAL HEALTH, which held its first meeting in Geneva during August 1949. The group will organize the first international mental health program as approved by the second World Health Assembly in Rome in June. Among items on the committee's agenda are collaboration with the United Nations in a study of the causes and prevention of crime and treatment of offenders; psychiatric examination of offenders prior to sentence; juvenile delinquency; mental health problems arising in rural districts, in industrial units, and among students; mental health training for medical and other personnel; public education; mental health and child care; medical statistics and nomenclature. The committee will also consider further WHO collaboration with the World Federation for Mental Health, which has recently concluded its annual meeting in Geneva.