Health emergencies—including disease outbreaks, pandemics, climate-related events, humanitarian crises, and natural disasters—are increasing in frequency and complexity. As the first point of contact ...
The Quadripartite partners – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new self-paced online course, Behavioural Sciences for Better Health: An ...
WHO’s Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) published a report on childhood cancer survival, presenting the first country-comparable five-year survival estimates for children and adolescent ...
At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the adoption of the New ...
A new WHO report, Artificial Intelligence-related health research: ethics review and oversight, provides recommendations for researchers, ethics committees, regulators, funders and policy-makers to ...
Avian influenza is a complex global challenge with consequences for animal health, human health, biodiversity, food security and livelihoods. In recent decades, high pathogenicity avian influenza ...
WHO Member States concluded the eighth meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on the WHO Pandemic Agreement today, advancing negotiations on a proposed pathogen access and ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the National health workforce accounts: health workforce levels and trends 2026, the first in an annual series of reports offering the most ...
A new technical brief calls for more consistent and rigorous measurement of non-partner sexual violence against women and girls – a widespread form of violence that remains underreported and ...
The theme of World Patient Safety Day 2026 is "Safe care for noncommunicable diseases". For people living with long-term conditions, patient safety extends beyond hospitals and health facilities into ...
For this update, reporting was done for the calendar year 2025, although a few countries reported for a different 12-month period (e.g. India reported for April 2025-March 2026 and Canada for the ...