The (EACPT) has its origins in a working party in the early 1970s under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO-Asia -responsible for international public health) and Subsequently, a committee was created in 1983 chaired by Folke Sjqvist with the remit to prepare the first congress of EACPT, held in Paris in 1998.
It has its origins in a working party in the early 1980s under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO-Europe). 
