Environment, Climate Change, One Health and Migration
We work to prevent disease and promote health by addressing key areas of environmental health including climate change, clean energy; air quality; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); and chemicals and radiation. Health threats are addressed through a One Health approach....

Monitoring and evidence on climate change and health

WHO coordinates reviews of the scientific evidence on the links between climate change and health and helps to shape a global research agenda.

Working closely with health ministries and research centers around the world, WHO gathers and analyses information about climate change health impacts and the level of preparedness of different countries to deal with these.

Through a series of health and climate change country profiles, WHO monitors the health impacts of climate change and the progress in building climate resilient health systems in a wide range of countries.

WHO conducts research and collects evidence on the opportunities for health gains from mitigation of Short-Lived and other climate pollutants. These health co-benefits far outweigh the costs of meeting climate change goals and are an important driver for the socio-political acceptance of the necessary changes across sectors.

Human health is strongly determined by environmental health, such as through ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity, land degradation and desertification, water services and urban health. WHO monitors the environmental determinants of health, as well as the public health implications of global environmental change.

Publications

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Universal social protection inclusive of people with tuberculosis: monitoring and evaluation framework

Universal social protection is essential to ending tuberculosis (TB). People with TB often face substantial health-related expenses, loss of income and...

Global roadmap for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy from 2026 to 2035 and beyond

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, particularly pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, are major causes of maternal death and severe morbidity worldwide. They...

Cover of the guideline on the integrated management of obesity in adolescents

This WHO guideline provides practice- and science-informed global clinical and public health recommendations for the integrated management of obesity in...