The World Health Organization will convene the 154th session of the WHO Executive Board in Geneva from 22-27 January 2024. The Executive Board is composed of 34 technically qualified members elected for three-year terms. The annual Board meeting is held in January when the members agree upon the agenda for the World Health Assembly (scheduled

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will host a Ministerial Meeting on Better Policies for More Resilient Health Systems on 23 January 2024 in Paris, France and via virtual broadcast. As the world emerges from the biggest public health emergency in more than a century, it is clear that there are lessons to

The Carnegie Endowment and the Council on Strategic Risks will host a panel on Kazakhstan's increasingly global role in the changing threat landscape of weapons of mass destruction on 30 January 2024 in Washington DC and by webcast. Upon the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan found itself in possession of the world's fourth-largest

A World Health Organization (WHO) update on COVID-19 will be held 1 February 2024 via an EPI-WIN webinar. COVID-19 remains a major public health concern. WHO experts will address what variants are circulating, their risk and impact, and what can be done to prevent and protect against infections, severe disease, post-COVID-19 condition and deaths. The

This is a closed session, virtual meeting of the Committee on the Current State of Research, Development, and Stockpiling of Smallpox Medical Countermeasures. The meeting is an activity of an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine charged with conducting a study to examine lessons learned from the recent COVID-19