WHO Academy Quality Committee
The WHO Academy Quality Committee provides strategic advice and recommendations to support the WHO Academy in its implementation of world class standards and quality assurance.
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Quality standards

The WHO Academy aims to improve the quality of learning provided to the health workforce by implementing rigorous standards for learning content. The WHO Academy’s quality standards, outlined in the Collaboration Framework, provide a quality guarantee for all courses provided by the WHO Academy, and serve as a reference for learning materials developed by other WHO entities and partners.

Ensuring that WHO’s exacting standards in developing robust and evidence-based content in the health domain are maintained was central to the development of the quality standards. Standards related to best practices in learning have been developed and tested by WHO Academy’s experts on learning and learning technologies with guidance from the Quality Committee.


The committee

The WHO Academy Quality Committee is comprised of up to nine experts from around the world, representing a broad range of disciplines, including lifelong learning, patient and community advocacy, quality management and digital technologies. 

Current committee members

 

Call for experts

Documents

WHO Academy Inaugural Conference

Technical report

28 April 2025
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WHO Academy Inaugural Conference
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Overview

The inaugural WHO Academy Conference on Lifelong Learning in Health: A Global Outlook took place on Tuesday, 11 February 2025 at the WHO Academy campus in Lyon, France, with an option for online participation for some of the conference sessions.

Following the opening of the Academy in December 2024, this conference represented a timely opportunity for the lifelong learning in health community to share insights and best practices in the design, development and delivery of healthcare education in interaction with WHO Academy experts and stakeholders.

This conference brought together more than 100 professionals and policy-makers from across the globe to contribute to quality assurance processes for high-quality lifelong learning and to impact health outcomes. The central theme of the conference was lifelong learning for social inclusion and equity, addressing how lifelong learning can promote access to education for all, particularly learners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

This technical report summarizes key messages from each of the conference sessions.

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WHO Academy Quality Committee