It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

WHO was founded in 1948 to work for the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples. WHO works with 194 Member States, providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, and articulating evidence-based policy options.

CDC’s Influenza Division has served as a WHO Collaborating Center (CC) for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Control of Influenza in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. One of its main goals is monitoring influenza virus changes to reduce influenza disease impact through vaccination.

3 days ago · ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official ...

3 days ago · ATLANTA - The White House has directed the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cease all collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a memo ...

3 days ago · A World Health Organization spokesperson declined to comment on the move. ... Many countries send samples of worrying influenza cases to the CDC's Atlanta laboratory for scrutiny of mutations that ...

Jan 16, 2025 · The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.

Dec 19, 2023 · Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment: Georgia 2023 This report provides a concise summary of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment in Georgia, where WHO has a long engagement on health financing...

Jul 11, 2024 · CDC's global health security work in Georgia focuses on providing support to strengthen the country's public health systems. It also focuses on addressing leading public health threats facing the country.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 20-24 May 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts carried out a biosafety and biosecurity inspection at one of the two WHO authorized variola virus (causative agent of smallpox) repositories: CDC*, in May 2019 in accordance with World Health Assembly