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 ...

At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the adoption of the New ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Bhutan as having eliminated dog-mediated human rabies as a public health problem — the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Region and one of only ...

All of this is no accident. It is due to the leadership of the government of DRC, close partnership between WHO, Africa CDC and hundreds of partners, and the hard work of thousands of health workers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent developments in the international intellectual property landscape—including the WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, ...