Filter
2919
Filtered Results: 2919
Text search:
health
emergency
preparedness
Featured
Recommendations
303
New Publications
786
Language
Document type
No document type
1421
Studies & Reports
499
Guidelines
389
Strategic & Response Plan
223
Manuals
186
Fact sheets
76
Situation Updates
63
Training Material
46
Resource Platforms
6
Online Courses
6
Infographics
3
Brochures
1
Countries / Regions
Global
148
Liberia
89
Sierra Leone
84
Myanmar / Burma
75
Kenya
73
Nepal
69
India
68
Syria
63
Bangladesh
58
Indonesia
58
Nigeria
52
Uganda
51
Western and Central Europe
49
Ethiopia
48
Latin America and the Carribbean
47
Congo, Democratic Republic of
47
South Sudan
45
Guinea
44
Africa
40
Rwanda
35
Ukraine
32
West and Central Africa
28
Ghana
27
South–East Asia Region
27
Haiti
25
Yemen
25
Zambia
25
Malawi
24
East and Southern Africa
24
Tanzania
23
Middle East and North Africa
22
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
22
Philippines
21
South Africa
21
Brazil
20
Senegal
19
Russia
19
Zimbabwe
16
Namibia
15
Lesotho
14
Mozambique
14
Burkina Faso
12
Afghanistan
12
Sudan
12
Mali
12
USA
11
Eastern Europe
11
Madagascar
11
Asia
10
Venezuela
10
Germany
10
Western Pacific Region
10
Central African Republic
10
Colombia
9
Jordan
9
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
9
Iraq
9
Somalia
9
Pakistan
9
Cameroon
8
Lebanon
7
Thailand
6
China
6
Laos
6
Burundi
6
Cambodia
6
Guinea-Bissau
6
Palestine
6
Botswana
6
Eswatini/ Swaziland
6
Benin
5
Togo
5
Chile
5
Niger
5
Peru
5
Bolivia
5
Vietnam
5
Moldova
5
Ecuador
5
Turkey
4
Gambia
4
Iran
4
Papua New Guinea
4
Angola
4
Turkmenistan
3
Portugal
3
Spain
3
Chad
3
Libya
3
Bhutan
3
North Macedonia
2
Tajikistan
2
Timor Leste/ East Timor
2
Mexico
2
El Salvador
2
Uzbekistan
2
Bulgaria
2
Mauritania
2
Italy
2
Hungary
2
Paraguay
2
North America
2
Jamaica
2
Mauritius
2
Argentina
2
Sri Lanka
2
Djibouti
2
Egypt
2
Romania
2
Poland
2
Serbia
1
Kazakhstan
1
Fiji
1
Singapore
1
Kyrgyzstan
1
Malaysia
1
Vanuatu
1
Mongolia
1
Qatar
1
Dominican Republic
1
Cape Verde
1
Croatia
1
Lithuania
1
Saudi Arabia
1
Gabon
1
Japan
1
France
1
United Kingdom
1
Azerbaijan
1
Belarus
1
Israel
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
Southern Africa
1
Barbados
1
Slovakia
1
Greece
1
Honduras
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
1085
Key Resources
352
Public Health
136
Clinical Guidelines
122
Women & Child Health
110
Capacity Building
50
Pharmacy & Technologies
20
Toolboxes
COVID-19
553
Rapid Response
257
Ebola & Marburg
198
Conflict
156
Planetary Health
133
Natural Hazards
122
Mental Health
90
Disability
80
HIV
65
Global Health Education
64
Refugee
63
Caregiver
62
Specific Hazards
61
AMR
59
Health Financing Toolbox
49
Zika
47
Cholera
43
TB
24
Polio
22
NTDs
20
Pharmacy
14
NCDs
13
Typhoon
7
South Sudan
1
Social Ethics
1
Malaria
1
On 30thJanuary 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the People’s Republic of China to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) under the international Health Regulations. The following day, the Italian Governm...
The Global Health Security Agenda programme develops national capacity to prevent zoonotic and non-zoonotic diseases while quickly and effectively detecting and controlling diseases when they do emerge. The Emerging Pandemic Threats programme improves national capacity to pre-empt the emergence and ...
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster ...
As the number of transboundary pest and animal and foodborne disease outbreaks rises, so does the number of people who are chronically hungry due to these and other factors. The correlation can be explained by the link between our health and that of the planet. We rely on land and sea for the produc...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a formative experience for all humanity and a health emergency of global proportions, presenting a huge challenge to national leaders, health systems, and citizens. The findings of a new report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) sho...
EVALUATION REPORT | The purpose of the evaluation is to strengthen child protection programming in the context of emergencies by assessing UNICEF’s performance and drawing lessons and recommendations that will influence ongoing and future programmes, in both preparedness and response. Apart from g...
Human rights must be at the centre of all prevention, preparedness, containment and treatment efforts from the start, in order to best protect public health and support the groups and people who are most at risk. States have an obligation to protect and guarantee everyone the right to the highest at...
Policy Brief 2 June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and human crisis threatening the food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world. Hundreds of millions of people were already suffering from hunger and malnutrition before the virus hit and, unless immediate action is tak...
BMJ is offering a range of free online resources to support researchers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to understand and respond to the global health emergency caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The free online resources are aimed at healthcare professionals locate...
9 April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting States in Europe with an extraordinary and unprecedented public health emergency. In response, States are taking necessary and legitimate measures to prevent the spread of the virus and to protect their populations. Some of these measures have been...
The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has been known since 1976, when two separate outbreaks were identified in the Democratic Repub...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the biggest disaster in living memory, on almost any measure. More than 6.5 million people are confirmed to have died in less than three years, and the pandemic’s indirect impacts have touched the lives of virtually every community on the planet.
Our World Disasters...
National Child Traumatic Stress Network National Center for PTSD | The field of school safety and emergency management has evolved significantly over the past decade. Tragically, acts of violence, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks have taught us many lessons. We also know that other types of ...
Levels of humanitarian need continue to stagger in Yemen. Fighting sporadically escalated in different parts of the country leading to spikes in displacement and civilian casualties. As of May some 36,506 families have been displaced across Yemen since the beginning of the year. Hajjah is one of the...
Previous crises, such as the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa in 2014, indicate the direct impact movement restrictions and disease containment efforts have on food availability, access, utilization and violence – particularly gender-based violence (GBV). The importance of maintaining and ...
Responding to a polio outbreak. Guidelines
recommended
The occurrence of a case of wild polio in a previously polio free area as presently in Syria, whether through importation, laboratory accident, or mutation of vaccine virus (VDPV), should be considered a public health emergency, that requires a rapid and high quality response as utmost priority
his revision to the Disaster Management Team’s (DMT) multi-sector response plan for COVID-19 is meant to align the multi-sector plan with the Department of Health’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan issued on 24 April 2020. Additionally, at the time of this version, the Department of Education an...
The Joint Response Plan sets out a comprehensive programme shaped around three strategic objectives – deliver protection, provide life-saving assistance and foster social cohesion. The Plan covers all humanitarian sectors and addresses key cross-cutting issues, including protection and gender main...
This revision to the Disaster Management Team’s (DMT) multi-sector response plan for COVID-19 is meant to align the multi-sector plan with the Department of Health’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan issued on 24 April 2020.
Has the world worked together to tackle the coronavirus? July 2021. This research paper assesses how the global community has responded to calls for greater solidarity in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, and presents the insights of key stakeholders and experts in global health governance, health sec...
