EPI-WIN digests

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...

Epidemics and pandemics begin and end in communities. When a community detects health threats and responds to them before they spread, a pandemic can be...

Zika virus has a significant public health impact, notably by causing congenital microcephaly and neurodevelopmental disorders after infection in pregnancy,...

Dengue is a viral infection caused by the dengue virus (DENV), transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes. The incidence of dengue...

PRET (Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats) is an approach to pandemic preparedness and response planning launched by WHO in 2023. ​PRET applies...

One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals, and the environment.This EPI-WIN...

Current outbreaks of avian influenza H5 have affected large numbers of wild and domestic birds, in areas with previous outbreaks and in new areas. Despite...

The multi-country mpox outbreak emerged and spread around the world in May 2022, prompting the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO)...

Approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases have an animal origin. Taking a multi-sectoral One Health approach is necessary to address both emerging...