World Health Day

This year’s World Health Day , 7 April 2026, kick-starts a year-long campaign to celebrate the power of scientific collaboration to advance health, save lives and transform societies. This includes using science to protect the health of people, animals, plants and the planet. Human health is inextricably linked and interdependent with that of domestic and wild animals, plants and the wider environment, necessitating an integrated approach to sustainably balance and optimize the health of all of these elements – a so-called One Health approach. “Health security begins where humans, animals and the environment meet, ” explains Dr Ihor Perehinets, Health Security and Regional Emergency Director, WHO/Europe. “The COVID-19 pandemic taught us that it is not a question of if new health threats will emerge but when, so protecting human health requires strengthening all the systems that sustain life, through incorporating nature and biodiversity into health policy and investing in laboratorie...

The  Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures  Campaign, will urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths , and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being . Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn Many pregnancy-related complications going undetected and untreated – WHO World Health Day 2025 to spotlight women and babies’ survival, urging solidarity at a critical moment for global health

To provide useful health information relating to pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period

To encourage collective action to support parents as well as health professionals who provide critical care.

Alongside advocating for actions that improve survival , in this year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health, WHO and partners will work with mothers and health-care professionals to share useful information about healthy pregnancies, births, and postnatal health .  See the toolkit

The health of mothers and babies is the foundation of healthy families and communities , helping ensure hopeful futures for us all.  The WHO has prepared a range of campaign assets to help disseminate messages promoting maternal and newborn health . Get the  World Health Organization (WHO)   campaign assets !

  More than 13 million deaths around the world each year are due to avoidable environmental causes. This includes the climate crisis which is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. The climate crisis is also a health crisis. The World Health Organization (WHO)

Needlestick injuries from discarded syringes can cause Hepatistis B, C and Infections diseases. Emissions from burning of health care can increase cancers.

COVID-19 has hit all countries hard, but its impact has been harshest on those communities which were already vulnerable, who are more exposed to the disease, less likely to have access to quality health care services and more likely to experience adverse consequences as a result of measures implemented to contain the pandemic. Hello world, its World Health Day 2021 , it's time to build a fairer healthier world for everyone, everywhere.