Connecting for Health – June 2025
Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly concludes: historic outcomes, consequential highlights
The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78), the annual meeting of World Health Organization’s (WHO) Member States, came to a close as health leaders lauded vast accomplishments and global solidarity.
World Health Assembly adopts historic Pandemic Agreement to make the world more equitable and safer from future pandemics
Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally adopted by consensus the world’s first Pandemic Agreement. The landmark decision by the 78th World Health Assembly culminates more than three years of intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and driven by the goal of making the world safer from – and more equitable in response to – future pandemics.
Strengthening primary health care, tackling NCDs, and advancing digital transformation key to health equity in the Americas, says PAHO Director
The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, has called for urgent action to strengthen primary health care as a way to achieve health equity and address persistent gaps in the care of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health. He also urged improving access to diagnostics, treatment, and digital tools across the Region of the Americas.
PAHO’s 2024 annual report details health security achievements in the Americas
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) released its 2024 annual report documenting its work to strengthen health security across the Americas amid infectious disease outbreaks, the Region’s heavy reliance on imported vaccines and pharmaceuticals, and persistent systemic inequities.
Six initiatives from the Americas awarded for their contributions to tobacco control
Researchers, activists, civil society organizations, and journalism organizations from Canada, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay, as well as government agencies from Brazil, have been recognized with World Health Organization (WHO) World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) 2025 Awards at the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
PAHO inaugurates Emergency Operations Centre in Barbados to strengthen Caribbean health security
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) officially inaugurated the Carissa F. Etienne Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) at its Barbados office, a state-of-the-art facility designed to coordinate health emergency preparedness and response across Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the wider Caribbean.
Trachoma in the Americas: Second Year of the PAHO–Canada Partnership for Its Elimination
Events
World Food Safety Day 2025: Science in action
When: 11 June
Uniting the Americas for Mental Health: From Commitment to Action
When: 25 June
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
When: 26 June
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