| No images? Click here  20 June 2025 | Issue 309  Julia Paredes Lopez, a nurse with the Chihuahua Health Secretariat, explains the importance of vaccinations to indigenous Raramuri girls at a camp in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, on 24 June 2024. © WHO / Felix Marquez  Monday, 23 June Launch of the 2025 Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic (hybrid press conference) 14.00 IST/15.00 CEST/13.00 GMT (in person and online) The World Health Organization (WHO) will launch its 2025 Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin. The report tracks tobacco control progress in every country, revealing who’s leading and where the fight is intensifying. It is launched with an accompanying data portal that offers comparative data going back to 2007. The press conference will be held at the Ecocem, Dublin Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland and online at 14.00 Irish Standard time (IST)/15.00 CEST/13.00 GMT. To attend, please register here. The report, press release and the data portal are available to journalists under embargo. Please write to guerraja@who.int with a copy to mediainquiries@who.int to request the materials. About the conference: https://www.worldtobaccocontrol.org *************** WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: new guidelines for mpox clinical management and infection prevention and control 23 June at 13.00 CEST This webinar will describe the latest evidence-based clinical and infection prevention and control (IPC) recommendations, explain the rationale behind key changes, and provide practical guidance for implementing mpox care in both hospital and community settings. It also creates an opportunity for dialogue, allowing participants to ask questions, share experiences, and gain clarity on managing Mpox across different contexts—including resource-limited settings. Ultimately, the webinar aims to ensure that updated guidance reaches those on the frontlines quickly and effectively, helping to improve patient outcomes, reduce transmission, and strengthen global Mpox response efforts. Further information and registration: here *************** Launch of WHO guidance on the ethics of health research priority setting 23 June 2025 at 13.00 UTC In the face of shrinking research budgets, government agencies, funders, and health research organizations have to make tough choices about what research to support. What they choose to prioritize affects who will benefit from future breakthroughs in medicine and public health, and who will not. It is therefore vital that health research priority setting is guided by ethical principles. The WHO’s new guidance on the ethics of health research priority setting synthesize current good practice, and along with an accompanying casebook, provides practical guidance for priority setting exercises, strategic planning, and agenda setting. Further information and registration: here.  Wednesday, 25 June Global Summit: Health & Prosperity through Immunization Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance's high-level pledging summit, which seeks to raise at least US$ 9 billion to protect 500 million children from vaccine-preventable diseases between 2026-2030, will take place in Brussels, Belgium on 25 June. Co-hosted by the European Union and the Gates Foundation, the event will bring together global leaders from government; partner organizations, including WHO; vaccine manufacturers; civil society and the private sector to secure crucial investments in life-saving immunization programmes. Further information here or contact media@gavi.org *************** Release of the “Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025” 25 June at 14.00 CEST/12.00 GMT The latest data on global access to clean energy will be released in the Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025 on 25 June. The report is produced by the International Energy Agency (IEA), International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), World Bank, and World Health Organization (WHO), the custodian agencies tracking progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, which aims to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030. The new report will be presented at a virtual press briefing on Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 08:00 EDT/12.00 GMT/14:00 CEST/16:00 GST. Please register here to attend: https://irena-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bfe2ZYOdSomlS_FGSwDnNA  Thursday, 26 June Embargoed press conference: Launch of the Report of the WHO Commission on Social Connection 26 June 2025 at 14.00 CEST/12.00 GMT Following the adoption of the first-ever World Health Assembly resolution on social connection in May 2025, the WHO Commission on Social Connection will release its global report on 30 June 2025 (see more). This report – the first of its kind - will present the latest available evidence on the scale and causes of loneliness and social isolation, their impacts on health, quality of life and economies, as well as key recommendations for individuals, communities and governments. An embargoed press conference on the report and the work of the Commission is scheduled at 14.00 CEST/12.00 GMT on Thursday, 26 June. Further information will be sent in a separate media advisory, including the dial-in details and the information on access to the embargoed report and press release. *************** Navigating lifelong learning in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) 26 June at 11.00 CEST, hybrid (in-person and online), WHO Academy, Lyon, France In a rapidly evolving global landscape, adult learning and education are undergoing profound transformations driven by technological innovation and the imperative for lifelong learning. In this WHO Academy seminar, Daniel Baril, Chair of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, will explore five compelling models that can improve patient outcomes and foster a culture of lifelong learning and reflective practice within healthcare teams. Further information and registration: here.  Friday, 27 June Launch of the framework to implement a life course approach in practice WHO is launching the "Framework to implement a life course approach in practice" in a virtual event that will feature speakers from the representatives of ministries of health, WHO and global experts from around the world. A life course approach includes a good start to life, optimal development (of infants, children, adolescents and youth), adult health and well-being, healthy ageing, and a dignified death at any age. The aim of a life course approach is to optimize health trajectories for people of all ages in every country. The session will highlight examples of how a life course approach can be used to reorient health systems to produce health for all, what is already being done in practice, and what more can be done. Further information and registration: here.  Stories of interest:
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