Top Stories - Geneva Health Forum
Longer Pollen Seasons, Extreme Heat and Wildfires – The Climate Change Cost to Lung Health
Lung Health
The growing impact of climate change on respiratory health, including through longer pollen seasons, wildfires and more exterme heat, was the ...
Decades After Ottawa Charter on Determinants of Health, a Question of Combating Commercial Influences
Child & adolescent health
Three emerging threats to health: the commercial, digital, and climate determinants of health played centre stage at an event 40 years ...
Unlocking the Power of the Private Sector for Stronger Health Systems 
Health Systems
As USAID programmes funding vital treatments for HIV/AIDS, malaria, maternal and child health, and other critical needs were imploding across Africa ...
Innovative Finance Can Strengthen Fragile Health Systems 
Health Equity
Financial innovation is a key, underused tool that can be mustered to strengthen humanitarian outreach in crisis settings, while also strengthening ...
Pandemic Agreement on Hold: Can Countries Bridge the Divide on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing?
Inside View
Only 12 more negotiating days remain until WHO member states hit the May 2026 deadline for an agreement on a Pathogen ...
Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries
Climate and Health
After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, ...
Read more
Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table
Inside View
Past Events
Climate Health Research Blind Spots Threaten WHO’s Climate Agenda, Experts Warn
GENEVA – The World Health Organization has made climate change its top priority in its four-year work plan adopted at ...
30/05/2024
Cabo Verde Minister of Health: 5 Steps to Eliminate Malaria
Cabo Verde, a group of 10 islands in the Central Atlantic Ocean, was declared malaria-free in January. This milestone makes ...
Can Technology Help Address Global Migrant Crisis? Experts Weigh In
As the world grapples with a migrant and refugee crisis of unprecedented scale, with 281m international migrants and 3.5m refugees ...
28/05/2024
Wildfire Smoke: The Health Emergency That Urgently Needs a Seat at the Climate Table
Inside View
More