News releases

Building from Strength: Expanding the Strategic Partnership between WHO and China

China’s Businesses Join WHO to Eliminate Smoking in Workplaces

China’s Belt and Road to Redefine Global Health Role

Greater cooperation needed to win the war on pollution

WHO Media Statement on False Reporting Regarding Air Pollution

Stand up for health and say no to second-hand smoke! WHO China launches new #healthismyright social media campaign

WHO Issues Latest Global Air Quality Report: Some Progress, but More Attention Needed to Avoid Dangerously High Levels of Air Pollution

Chinese vaccines against poliomyelitis and hepatitis A will help countries combat infectious diseases

Are our smart phones affecting our mental health?

Seeing Through Big Tobacco’s Smokescreen

Voices of a generation: a unique Photo Camp collaboration between ministries of health, National Geographic Society and WHO empowers youth to tell stories of climate change and health

Fiji becomes the 26th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem

With Asia and the Pacific on the front lines of the climate crisis, WHO unveils an ambitious blueprint for action on climate and health

From the climate crisis to a resurgence of HIV, WHO Member States meet to map out health priorities for the Western Pacific Region

Addressing megatrends of population ageing and NCDs: WHO launches new partnership with Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture

Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

Up to 5% of climate emissions come from healthcare. A new coalition of Asia-Pacific countries, backed by WHO, plans to change that

Global Health Learning Centre 2025 Fellows celebrate graduation at WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific

GHLC 2025 kicks off with a dynamic start: Module A successfully completed

WHO in the Western Pacific calls for urgent action to save mothers and newborns