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Welcome to the Health In Europe podcast from the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. Our Region is broad and diverse. We work with fascinating and driven individuals and gr...
What insights and lessons learned from the UN High Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistence last September can inform preparations for the...
How can we address the intersecting challenges of climate change and non-communicable diseases at once? In this first episode of the Interse...
Crisis and conflict dominate the headlines. The ongoing war in Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territor...
Stories of strength and dedication to mark International Women’s Day For International Women’s Day, we celebrate the achievements of three r...
When we hear the word suicide, many of us instinctively recoil. The word is taboo in everyday life. For family members who have lost somebod...
In this turbulent world, it’s tempting to move on and forget the difficult days of COVID-19. Although the impact of the COVID pandemic is fa...
In tropical and subtropical countries, the virus causing dengue is spiking. Close to an historic high of over 6 million cases and more than...
The first of the three influenza pandemics that occurred in the 20th century is estimated to have killed over 50 million people. Based on sc...
The 2022 mpox outbreak has taught public health authorities a lot about the value of working with communities on important areas like testin...
In this episode, we are putting a special focus on the H5N1 bird flu. We explore the ongoing efforts to prepare for future pandemics by spea...
We turn our attention to the world of nursing through the compelling lens of Stefanie Fernandes and Francisco Ferraz. Francisco, a passionat...
What are we doing to prepare for the next pandemic? We go behind the scenes at WHO and some of the European region’s major public health ins...
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the WHO's Expanded Programme on Immunization, now known as the Essential Programme on Immunizat...
There is an alarming resurgence of measles. In the WHO European Region, a startling uptick has been observed, with now over 50,000 cases rep...
In the latest 'Health in Europe' podcast, we explore Jack Kavanagh's transformation from a sports enthusiast to a disability...
We explore the transformative synergy of art and health, and how art can positively help tackle noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – from cardi...
Have you ever wondered what it's truly like to be in prison? As we reflect on the unprecedented challenges brought about by the COVID-1...
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals act as a vital catalyst, urging countries worldwide to strive for Universal Health Coverage. This enc...
One in three school-aged children in the WHO European Region are living with overweight or obesity, and countries are working hard to break...
This episode of Health in Europe focuses on a very important question – can vaccines prevent cancer? We know that cancer is a complicated an...
Behavioral and cultural insights utilize social sciences to tackle ongoing health issues - from vaccine uptake to antimicrobial resistance t...
In this episode we hear from Dr Moez Zeiton – a trauma surgeon who’s worked with WHO in Iraq and now is a trainer with the David Nott Founda...
Alcohol harms everyone and there is no safe limit to alcohol consumption when it comes to health. A new episode of the ‘Health in Europe’ po...
More than 30,000 women die from cervical cancer in the WHO European Region every year. But cervical cancer is a preventable disease and elim...
Quality of care is an important part of any health system. In this episode, we speak with Dimitra Panteli, of the European Observatory on He...
In this episode, WHO/Europe’s Press and Media Relations Officer, Bhanu Bhatnagar, speaks with Professor Johan von Schreeb about his experien...
Not a single country in the WHO European Region is on track to stop the rise in obesity by 2025 – that’s according to the 2022 European Obes...
As we mark European Immunization Week – WHO confirms that a polio outbreak in Tajikistan has ended following a comprehensive response. We sp...
Labs form an often unseen yet crucial part of any health system. In this episode we find out more about the role of laboratories in health,...
You may remember a couple of weeks ago we spoke about the Economics of Ageing webinar series. In this episode, we speak with Dr Jon Cylus of...
In this episode we speak about a new report from WHO/Europe on inequities in treatment for childhood cancer in the Region and hear from Aron...
Screening for diseases like cancer may seem a simple solution to catch the disease before it becomes serious. But in this episode we find ou...
Earlier this week marked two years since the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the WHO European Region. In this episode we speak with...
Population ageing is often seen as bad for the economy and unsustainable for health systems. But is this really the case? Debora Miranda, Co...
In this episode we speak with Dr Catherine Smallwood, WHO/Europe’s COVID-19 incident manager, to get the latest on the Omicron variant which...
The first episode in a mini-series of podcasts created for the Digital Solutions for Noncommunicable Diseases Conference in Moscow discusses...
In this episode we hear from health workers and NGOs about what steps can be taken to provide healthcare to people in prison, leaving no-one...
In this episode, we speak with three young health care workers from across the Region about the challenges they’ve faced during COVID-19 and...
In this episode, we speak with representatives of health authorities in Slovenia and with "Nobody Left Outside" - a collective of organizati...
In this episode we speak with Dr Tracey Cooper, Chief Executive of Public Health Wales and Christine Brown of WHO European Office for Invest...
In this third and final episode, we’re building flutopia – exploring different ways that health authorities work to increase flu vaccination...
In part one of flutopia, we explored why the annual flu vaccine is so important. In the second episode of this three-part series we speak wi...
Each year people are encouraged to get a flu vaccine to protect them from seasonal influenza. But why do we need a flu vaccine? Find out in...
In this episode, we speak with Dr Alex Schneider of Life4me+, a charity that worked with WHO to ensure access to healthcare and treatment am...
The education of children and young people around the world has been deeply affected by COVID-19. The closing of schools in response to the...
Earlier this year, wild polio was declared eradicated from Africa. This fantastic achievement brought humanity one step closer to globally e...
Earlier this week, Member States endorsed the European Programme of Work at WHO/Europe’s 70th Regional Committee. Linking to the three key p...
Digital health offers solutions that offer the potential to strengthen health systems, but it also raises a number of important questions. I...
Immunization has played a crucial role in reducing mortality and the unnecessary suffering of people as a result of vaccine-preventable dise...
Mental health is an important part of personal health. It’s estimated that millions of people in the WHO European Region are living with men...