WHO/Europe monthly newsletter, with public health news and events highlights from around the WHO European Region.
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Public health news from around the WHO European Region.
News highlights
September 2025
Health ministers and high-level delegates from the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region, as well as representatives of partner organizations and civil society, will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 28–30 October 2025 for the 75th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (RC75).
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TOP STORIES
17 August 2025
"Hi, Cathy. There was a bombing at a cafe. Bashar’s leg is seriously injured. 80% of his friends are dead.”
That is the heart-stopping message Dr Catherine Le Scolan-Quéré received in June 2025, while working in her general practice in Brittany. It was about her friend, Bashar Al-Bilbisi, a 25-year-old pharmacist from Gaza.
30 September – 2 October 2025
WHO/Europe is hosting the second Knowledge Forum on Refugee and Migrant Health in Athens, Greece, from 30 September to 2 October 2025.
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05-08-2025
In 2024, WHO reached 4.7 million people with essential health services.
The WHO Country Office in Ukraine has released its 2024 annual report on health emergency operations, outlining efforts to sustain and strengthen health-care delivery despite the ongoing war. Read more
Emergency preparedness saves lives amid Romania’s catastrophic floods
11-08-2025
29-08-2025
In Türkiye’s south-eastern provinces, WHO is supporting the delivery of 2 mental health and psychosocial programmes that are helping communities to continue to recover from the devastating earthquakes of 6 February 2023. By strengthening the capacity of health and social service professionals in the region to deliver interventions, these programmes are helping both young people and adults to adapt and thrive as the region continues to rebuild. Read more
New partnership strengthens information systems for refugee and migrant health
25-08-2025
WHO/Europe strengthens health security through Polio Laboratory Network
20-08-2025
This is the way: making breastfeeding everybody’s business
01-08-2025
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COUNTRIES
19-08-2025
On the outskirts of the small town of Buhuși in Romania lies a hospital that once seemed destined for obscurity.
Home to just 14 000 people, the town itself is in the heart of Bacău county, one of the most underserved regions in the country. However, in response to a grave shortage of health-care workers, a challenge echoed through the halls of the town’s small “Professor Dr Eduard Apetrei” hospital. Read more
New study exposes barriers to childhood vaccination in Romanian communities
27-08-2025
WHO collaborating centre supports first national refugee and migrant health partnership in Ireland
24-08-2025
WHO collaborating centre in Malta leads efforts to promote mental health and resilience in schools
13-08-2025
Ukraine: closing immunization gaps
12-08-2025
12 September 2025, 11:30-13:00 - CEST, Online
WHO/Europe is hosting a webinar to explore suicide prevention strategies with a focus on strengthening access to care through a multisectoral approach.
Suicide remains a public health challenge in our Region and is a leading cause of death among young people aged 15–29. Over 150 000 people die by suicide each year – this is nearly 400 suicides every day. Read more
Webinar: Marketing bans – the role of advertising in alcohol consumption
24 September 2025 - 15:00–16:00 CEST, Online
A global movement to improve survival and reduce suffering for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases: HLM4 side event
24 September 2025 - New York, United States of America
39th meeting of the European Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication
23 – 24 September - 2025 Copenhagen, Denmark
16th conference of the European network for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA Europe)
17 – 19 September 2025 - Kaunas, Lithuania
Joint Meeting of the Nordic Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Group and the Regional EMT Steering Committee (RSC)
18 – 19 September 2025 - Copenhagen, Denmark
14th meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC)
15 – 17 September 2025 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Final workshop in Bosnia and Herzegovina of the joint WHO/EU project aimed at strengthening immunization in the Western Balkans
9 September 2025 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
International Day of Clean Air for blue skies: making every breath matter
7 September 2025
