The World Health Summit (WHS) is an international conference held annually during October in Berlin as well as online. Stakeholders from science, business, politics, and civil society meet to discuss key challenges in global healthcare. WHS aims to improve global … Continue reading →
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is one of the United Nations specialised agencies – an autonomous agency with its own membership, but coordinated through the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Founded in 1948, the organisation has its own constitution … Continue reading →
Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published by five United … Continue reading →
By Benjamine Ssuuna The ideal It is important that while striving to ameliorate the pandemic situation, policy makers should ensure that policies support and improve the welfare of individuals in the country. Precaution should be a fundamental responsibility of every … Continue reading →
On 31 May 2020 the United Nations Association Coventry Branch ran a teleconference about World No Tobacco Day. Philip Brown and Elena Miron discuss tobacco, how and why people get hooked and what the World Health Organization is doing to … Continue reading →
We reported on 15 April how US President Donald Trump was following his usual procedure when something goes wrong: blame somebody else. Following his own failure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, he blamed everyone he could think of for … Continue reading →
During its 73rd meeting, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a landmark resolution to bring the world together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. It calls for the intensification of efforts to control the pandemic, and for equitable access to and … Continue reading →
The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is attended by health ministers and delegations from all 194 WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. … Continue reading →
We recently heard the BBC refer to SARS-CoV-2, a name we had not heard before, so we did a little research. On 11 February 2020, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) [1] announced that the name of the … Continue reading →
Normally UN interns are unpaid and have to find their own accommodation, food and travel expenses. But after a campaign led by Wolverhampton doctor and ex-intern Dr Ashton Barnett-Vanes, the World Health Organisation based in Geneva has agreed to provide full … Continue reading →