World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros appoints Cook Islands’ Elizabeth Iro as WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer
Countries pledge to fund priority public health services; make medicines, the health workforce and food safer
Regional health leaders target elimination of: measles and rubella; HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis in babies
Health leaders gather in Australia for World Health Organization’s top regional decision-making body
World Health Organization and Australia forge new strategic partnership
First meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the epidemic of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda 2026 – Temporary recommendations
Healing the future: Traditional medicine drives innovation, equity and planetary health at WHA79
World Health Assembly endorses resolution on precision medicine
World must ‘double down on delivery’ for global road safety, says WHO
WHO and African Medicines Agency launch landmark framework to strengthen access to quality-assured health products in Africa
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 21 May 2026
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 20 May 2026
WHO and Gilead Sciences renew partnership to accelerate visceral leishmaniasis elimination
