EPI-WIN digests

Cholera is resurging in a number of countries, including some that had not reported substantial case numbers in years, like Chad and the Republic of Congo,...

Strengthening Public Health Intelligence (PHI) is central to WHO’s mandate to detect, assess, and respond to health threats in a timely and effective...

Digital violence, such as doxxing, deepfakes, and online harassment, poses significant public health risks. Nearly one in three women globally experience...

Acute bacterial meningitis and invasive meningococcal disease are global public health threats that require sustained control efforts. Under the framework...

The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) is a global network of pathogen genomic actors, brought together by the WHO Hub for Pandemic and...

 The Outbreak Toolkit (OTK) was developed to support rapid detection, response to and sustain effective response to all health emergencies. The OTK...

Since September 2025, Senegal and Mauritania have been facing an unusually severe outbreak of Rift Valley fever (RVF), affecting both human and animal...

Continuous tracking of coronavirus threats, including COVID-19, provides the scientific foundation for public health decisions. It enables WHO and countries...

The National Bridging Workshop (NBW) Program is a Tripartite (WHO, FAO, WOAH) program focusing on the workshops sensus stricto and the subsequent implementation...

Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a very important role in health emergencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, innovative local...

Risk Communication and Community Engagement - Infodemic Management (RCCE-IM) is central to WHO’s mission in health emergencies because it goes beyond...

Seasonal influenza has routinely overwhelmed health systems during years with severe epidemics. Seasonal influenza vaccination can mitigate the impacts...

The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) is a global network of pathogen genomic actors, brought together by the WHO Hub for Pandemic and...

Cholera remains a significant global public health threat, closely linked to inequality and inadequate social and economic development. Since 2021, the...

Integrated outbreak analytics (IOA) aims to support the successful detection, investigation and response to outbreaks in a contextual, holistic, sustainable,...

Infectious disease outbreaks continue to challenge fragile health systems, especially in low-resource, humanitarian, and emergency settings. Despite advancements...

The Joint Risk Assessment Operational Tool (JRA OT) was developed by the Tripartite (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common virus that causes infections of the upper and lower respiratory airways (including the nose, sinuses and...

Plague, a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, has affected humans for thousands of years and has been responsible for three...

With summer 2025 expected to bring new global temperature records, the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme heat events poses an urgent challenge...

The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) is a global network of pathogen genomic actors, brought together by the WHO Hub for Pandemic and...

Since the 2022 global outbreak of Mpox, caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), the epidemiological landscape has continued to evolve. While the initial...

Mass gatherings such as large-scale religious events or pilgrimages can pose public health challenges and put pressure on the...

Humanitarian emergencies cause widespread suffering, affecting people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being. Almost all people affected by...

This digest provides an update on current influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2, RSV and other respiratory virus activity in the northern hemisphere winter...

Mass gatherings, like sporting events or religious pilgrimages, are highly visible events attended by tens of thousands of people. They can pose public...

Sudan virus disease is a severe, often fatal illness affecting humans and other primates that is due to Orthoebolavirus sudanense (Sudan virus),...

Although it is well recognized that a multi-sectoral, One Health approach to diseases at the human–animal–environment interface...

The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) is a global network of pathogen genomic actors, brought together by the WHO Hub for Pandemic...

For the first time, there is integrated guidance for three respiratory diseases- influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and RSV. This digest gives an...

The Global Early Warning and Prevention System (GLEWS) identifies and monitors disease events, develops epidemiological intelligence for identification...

WHO’s Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses unit has been collaborating with the University of Calgary Serotracker team and the Food and Agriculture...

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of stronger community early warning systems and the potential of community roles in case detection,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) implements a robust approach to public health intelligence (PHI) for the global detection, verification and risk assessment...

This webinar aimed to describe and discuss the WHO IPC and WASH guidance for home-based care and isolation in low-resource settings.For further information,...

As countries are often dealing with concurrent threats of cyclones, disease outbreaks, flood, earthquakes, conflicts etc, at any given time, gaining understanding...

This webinar aimed to emphasize the WHO infection prevention and control (IPC) and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) recommendations and available tools...

Approximately 80% of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s humanitarian caseload and 70% of disease outbreaks that WHO responds to take place in...

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), first identified in 2012, is an emerging zoonotic virus with significant epidemic and pandemic...

Health systems can often be overwhelmed during crises, therefore building resilient health systems as part of preparedness and resilience for emergencies...

The global mpox outbreak, which began in 2022, has resulted in over 100,000 confirmed cases reported to the WHO.  The rapid spread of the new Clade...

The global mpox outbreak, which began in 2022, has resulted in over 100,000 confirmed cases reported to the WHO. The rapid spread of the new Clade 1B strain,...

The global mpox outbreak, which began in 2022, has resulted in over 100,000 confirmed cases reported to the WHO. The rapid spread of the new Clade 1B strain,...

The WHO Director General declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), as new clade of the virus, clade 1b, spread rapidly...

The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) is a global network of pathogen genomic actors, brought together by the WHO Hub for Pandemic...

WHO Headquarters organized a webinar on infodemic management, following numerous requests from countries. This webinar focused on the operationalization...

Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease caused by the dengue virus and remains a serious global public health threat. Dengue infections are the most common...

Since the EPI-WIN webinar on "Public health risk of avian influenza A(H5N1) detected recently in dairy cattle" held on 6 May 2024, more human...

The Global Preparedness and Monitoring Board (GPMB) works with countries to improve pandemic and other disease outbreak preparedness. The GPMB's ​2023...

 The Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) is an innovative approach to improving disease pandemic preparedness.This EPI-WIN digest...