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Key figures on WHO’s work in emergencies (as of 15 July 2024)
WHO is currently responding to 42 graded emergencies across the world, including:
8 Grade-3 emergencies
7 protracted Grade-3 emergencies
13 Grade-2 emergencies
11 protracted Grade-2 emergencies
3 Grade-1 emergencies
Graded emergency: An acute public health event or emergency that requires WHO’s moderate response (Grade-2) or major/ maximal response (Grade-3). If a graded emergency persists for more than six months, it may transition to a protracted emergency.
WHO continuously updates the graded emergencies figures based on inputs from the Organization’s three-levels.
In 2024, more than US$ 32 million were released by WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) for 23 health emergencies. The largest allocations were for the Sudan conflict and refugee crisis, the global Dengue outbreak, the Israel/occupied Palestinian territories hostilities and the Northern Ethiopia Humanitarian Response.
The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) has supported 30 deployments in 2024, of which 5 started in 2023 and ended in 2024. As of mid-July 2024, the highest number of GOARN deployments were in response to the escalation of violence in Israel and occupied Palestinian territories (12), the Greater Horn of Africa Drought and Food Insecurity (five), and the cholera outbreak in Zambia (three).
OpenWHO.org totaled 8.7 million enrolments across 290 online public health courses, with learning available in 73 national and local languages. To date, there have been 514 000 enrolments in 2024.
In 2024, Standby Partners have supported WHO’s response to 11 graded emergencies through the deployment of 25 new deployments of surge personnel to 16 WHO offices. WHO is an active member of the Standby Partner Network and the International Humanitarian Partnership