Monthly operational update on health emergencies - April 2023
9 May 2023
| Emergency Situational Updates
Overview
In this edition of the Monthly Operational Update on Health Emergencies, highlights of country-level actions and WHO support to countries include:
- New study finds that 43,000 “excess deaths” may have occurred in 2022 from the drought in Somalia
- Addressing mental health and psychosocial needs in Ukraine during and after the war: WHO support to Ukraine in 2022
- Mongolia trains its Global Emergency Response (M-GER) Emergency Medical Team members
- Antigua and Barbuda moves forward to create its first national Emergency Medical Team (EMT)
- WHO supports Mauritius to conduct national risk profiling workshop using the Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risks (STAR)
- WHO holds first workshop of National Public Health Agencies (NPHAs) on building essential capacities in health emergency preparedness and response
- The Eastern Mediterranean Region holds its third Scientific Conference and sixth EMARIS meeting on acute respiratory infections
- Strengthening influenza preparedness through an OpenWHO online course
- Mobile health caravans rally the western Balkans to COVID-19 vaccination, bringing health advice closer to where people are
- Assessing the quality of laboratory testing for SARS-CoV-2 through external quality assessments (EQA)
- WHO Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) External Quality Assessment Programme 2022 for molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2
- A global analysis of COVID-19 intra-action reviews: Reflecting on, adjusting and improving emergency preparedness and response during a pandemic. Examples from the European Region
- Study captures how OpenWHO learners adapt content from online public health courses for local learning
WHO Team
Emergency Response