Strengthening health workforce capacity in the Pacific

Strengthening health workforce capacity in the Pacific

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WHO Western Pacific and the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare signed a donor agreement to support an online health workforce capacity-building programme through the Pacific Open Learning Health Net (POLHN).
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The Western Pacific Region is home to almost 2.2 billion people across 38 countries and areas.

WHO is working with governments and partners across the Western Pacific to make this the healthiest and safest Region.

 

More about the Western Pacific Region

Report of the Regional Director 
 1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025

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A mother with her child after vaccination at Yalobi Nursing Station, Waya island in Fiji.
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Strategic objectives for the development and implementation of maternal, newborn and child health quality of care programmes
22 December 2025

Strategic objectives for the development and implementation of maternal, newborn and child health quality...

This publication sets out the strategic objectives that programme managers can use to help countries design, implement, scale up and sustain maternal,...

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Nurturing hopes: Progress in implementing the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer in the WHO South-East Asia Region
22 December 2025

Nurturing hopes: Progress in implementing the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer in the WHO South-East...

Launched by the WHO in 2018, the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) aims to achieve at least a 60% survival rate for children with cancer globally...

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Training in yoga
19 December 2025

Training in yoga

A popular form of traditional and complementary medicine, Yoga is taught and practised in many Member States. The evidence-based approach to the effectiveness...

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Developing national meningitis plans: an operational manual
19 December 2025

Developing national meningitis plans: an operational manual

This operational manual aims to support countries in developing their meningitis plans, along the five pillars of the Defeating meningitis by 2030 global...

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