WFPHA Blog: Insights on Global Public Health
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Day 3: GPHW2026
Global Public Health Week Day 3 EventsGlobal Public Health Week 2025: Day 3 – Prevention First: From Epidemics to Everyday Health - Wednesday, April 8th Focus: Immunization, surveillance, and community prevention. Prevention saves lives and stabilizes societies....
Day 2: GPHW2026
Global Public Health Week Day 2 EventsGlobal Public Health Week 2025: Day 2 – Protecting Health Systems in Times of Crisis - Tuesday, April 7th Focus: Resilient systems and the safety of health workers. Conflict and insecurity destroy health infrastructure and...
Day 1: GPHW2026
Global Public Health Week Day 1 EventsGlobal Public Health Week 2026: Day 1 – Peaceful Societies, Healthy Populations - Monday, April 6th Focus: Governance, human rights, and social determinants of health. Public health depends on social cohesion, justice, and...
Statement on the Global Public Health Crisis of Military Aggression: In Defense of Health, Peace, and Democracy
Statement on the Global Public Health Crisis of Military Aggression: In Defense of Health, Peace, and Democracy The World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) expresses its profound alarm and unequivocal condemnation of the escalating pattern of unilateral...
US childhood vaccine schedule overhaul 2026
Protecting Our Future: Why the U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule Overhaul Risks Global Health The World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) has issued a critical statement regarding the announced changes to the United States childhood immunization schedule....
Advancing Adult HPV Vaccination: From Evidence to Action
Advancing Adult HPV Vaccination: From Evidence to Action Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most prevalent infections in the world, affecting up to 80% of individuals at some point in their lives. While the immune system clears most infections naturally,...
Strengthening the One Health Approach for Climate Change Mitigation
Strengthening the One Health Approach for Climate Change Mitigation and Public Health Protection As climate change accelerates, its impacts on human health, animal health, ecosystems, and social systems are becoming increasingly interconnected. At the COP30 Satellite...
Oral Health Call to Action
Integrating Oral Health into Universal Health Coverage: Why It’s Time to End the Divide Between Oral Health and Global NCD Agendas There is no health without oral health. For too long, oral health has been treated as an afterthought in global health systems. Yet the...
Breastfeeding crisis
The Global Breastfeeding Crisis How Formula Marketing Undermines Infant Health & What We Must Do Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child survival and long-term health, yet aggressive commercial milk formula (CMF) marketing continues to...
Gaza Call to Action
Gaza’s Public Health Crisis: A Call for Global Action and Justice Gaza and Palestine’s public health systems are under attack. They’re collapsing. Genocide, governance failures, and the ethics of global health are to blame. Since 1967, the World Federation of Public...