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.
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Publications
All →Global tuberculosis report 2026
The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2026 provides a comprehensive assessment of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic and progress in prevention, diagnosis and...
WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, 2nd ed.
The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was adopted by the Sixty-third World Health Assembly in 2010 through...
Global leishmaniasis surveillance updates 2025
This report on global leishmaniasis surveillance follows those published in 2016–2025. Six leishmaniasis indicators are publicly available from the...