The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...

A new outbreak in Angola , West Africa started on January 7, 2025, and it is likely to get worse as it spreads to more rural ...

Amb. Amma Twum-Amoah (Ghana) was elected as Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development (HHS) department. She is the former Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana to Djibouti, ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of ...

Colombia has announced a health emergency in response to rising deaths from yellow fever. The country’s health ministry reported at least 34 deaths and 74 cases of the disease — a dramatic increase ...

It is time for the United States to consider an alternative to the WHO — a more nimble, innovative institution that would ...

World Health Organization member states agreed to the treaty after three years of talks. NPR speaks with Precious Matsoso, who served as co-chair of the group tasked with creating the treaty.

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas.