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Key figures on WHO’s work in emergencies (as of 15 December 2024)
WHO is currently responding to 42 graded emergencies across the world, including: 10 Grade-3 emergencies 7 protracted Grade-3 emergencies 11 Grade-2 emergencies 10 protracted Grade-2 emergencies 4 Grade-1 emergencies Graded emergency: An acute public health event or emergency that requires WHO’s moderate response (Grade-2) or 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.
S$ 50 million has been released by WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) to provide humanitarian health assistance for 28 emergencies or events. The largest allocations have been for the Sudan conflict and refugee crisis, the Ethiopia humanitarian response, the global dengue outbreak, the crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory, and the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon.
The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) has supported 65 deployments in 2024. The highest number of deployments were in response to the escalation of violence in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory (13), the outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Rwanda (12), and global and multi-country support for cholera (10).
OpenWHO.org totaled 9.2 million enrolments across 317 online public health courses, with learning available in 75 national and local languages. To date, there have been 884 000 enrolments in 2024.
In 2024, Standby Partners have supported WHO’s response to 16 graded emergencies through the deployment of 55 new deployments of surge personnel to 19 WHO offices with a total deployment duration of 226 months. The estimated in-kind support mobilized through the SBP mechanism amounted to US$ 3.4 million