Did you know that about 321 million people around the world speak French? OpenWHO wishes the entire French-speaking community an excellent French Language Day.
Learning in your own language is much easier, that's why OpenWHO, the WHO learning platform, has 79 courses on different public health topics translated into French.
The World Health Organization’s open-access learning platform OpenWHO.org has issued a call for abstracts to identify how our learning content is used in local, national and regional contexts, and adapted for use outside the platform.
All submissions are due by 15 March 2023. Click here to learn more and submit your 150-250 word abstract.
We are particularly interested in capturing how materials have been used in workforce training and emergencies, as well as in capacity-building contexts, to prepare for or respond to disease outbreaks or health events. Abstracts that are accepted will be invited to be made into posters to be delivered at an online exhibition in July 2023.
The case studies will serve as evidence of OpenWHO use on the ground by health professionals and communities, providing examples beyond what can be captured on the platform and contributing to the body of knowledge on the multiplier effect of open online learning.
On International Women's Day, we celebrate the women learning on our free online learning platform to strengthen public health.
52% of our OpenWHO learners are women, including 60% in key courses like our COVID-19 vaccination training for health workers. You can access all courses here.
This year's International Women's Day theme is DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality. On 8 March, join the push to make the digital world safer, more inclusive and more equitable.
Inequities in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) throughout the world mean that certain population subgroups have systematically worse health outcomes and poorer access to services and interventions than others. Addressing inequities in SRMNCAH is central to achieving universal health coverage, protecting human rights, advancing gender equality, combating discrimination and improving the social determinants of health. Making progress in each of these areas is also vital to achieve WHO's Triple Billion targets and accelerate towards the health-related SDGs.
Regular monitoring and review of inequalities in SRMNCAH by stakeholders at regional, national and subnational levels is critical for evidence based decision making. The results of this inequality monitoring can also be used as an input (alongside other forms of knowledge and evidence) to determine where efforts and resources are needed to improve health and well-being for disadvantaged subgroups.
This informational webinar marks the release of a new WHO eLearning course: Inequality Monitoring in Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health. The course introduces learners to a five-step approach to inequality monitoring in the context of SRMNCAH, preparing them to apply these steps across diverse contexts and settings. The two-hour, interactive eLearning course is delivered through OpenWHO.org, which hosts free, self-paced online courses on a variety of health topics.
Date and time: Thursday 9 March 2023, 13:00-14:00 CET
Welcome: Stephen Mac Feely, Director, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO
About the eLearning course: Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Lead, Health Inequality Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO
Learner endorsements
Open session for questions: Moderated by Devaki Nambiar, Health Inequality Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO
Closing remarks: Anshu Banerjee, Director, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO and Pascale Allotey, Director, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, WHO
This course provides an overview of various methods and tools that can be used to understand emerging trends and changes with a futuristic lens and to explore their potential impacts on global public health.
Foresight creates space for thinking about new opportunities and possibilities, taking a longer-term perspective, and articulating current needs and priority actions that can be taken to shape the preferred future scenario.
Click here to join the course.
The target audiences for this course are:
Did you know that OpenWHO was recognized as the Learning Platform of the Year at the 2023 Learning Awards? OpenWHO was named the Gold Winner at a ceremony in London, England, on 16 February 2023. Click here for details.
The theme of this year's International Mother Language Day is “Multilingual education – a necessity to transform education”.
We are proud to offer free online courses in 65 languages to make public health knowledge accessible to as many people as possible.
Celebrate with us on 21 February! Click on the Courses button in the navigation bar and use the language filter to start learning in your language.
OpenWHO was deeply honoured to be recognized as the Learning Platform of the Year at the 2023 Learning Awards. The awards are billed as “the highest accolade you can receive in workplace learning and development.”
WHO's OpenWHO.org learning platform was named the Gold Winner at a ceremony in London, England, on 16 February 2023, after being selected as a Finalist with 7 other learning platforms. Gold is the highest level awarded and has the unanimous vote of all judges.
The award was based on a written submission, presentation and question and answer session before a judging panel, who were looking for “evidence of a platform’s alignment to a clear organisational need, stakeholder buy-in, learner engagement and adoption, and most importantly, impact on performance and what the platform has helped the organisation to achieve.”
The OpenWHO team suggested that the free online learning platform deserved recognition in view of its significant reach and impact during its first pandemic test: “We have empowered millions of people across the globe with knowledge to protect themselves and their communities, furthering WHO’s mission and establishing OpenWHO’s role as an effective knowledge-transfer platform for future pandemics,” the submission said.
As of February 2023, the OpenWHO learning platform provides nearly 200 self-paced public health courses from WHO experts, including 46 for the COVID-19 pandemic. Courses are available across 65 languages, with a total of 7.5 million enrolments.
The World Health Organization’s open-access learning platform OpenWHO.org is issuing a call for abstracts to identify how our learning content is used in local, national and regional contexts, and adapted for use outside the platform.
We are particularly interested in capturing how materials have been used in workforce training and emergencies, as well as in capacity-building contexts, to prepare for or respond to disease outbreaks or health events. Abstracts that are accepted will be invited to be made into posters to be delivered at an online exhibition in July 2023.
All submissions are due by 15 March 2023. Click here to learn more and submit your 150-250 word abstract.
We are pleased to announce the following courses that were recently made available:
Cholera Outbreaks: Emergency Preparedness and Response: This course outlines the objectives of a cholera outbreak response, how to detect and confirm cholera outbreaks and how to effectively organize the response including describing control measures. It also describes steps to take to be better prepared to respond to cholera outbreaks.
EWARS in a box: electronic early warning, alert and response system implementation in emergencies: This course covers all key aspects of establishing EWARS in a box, electronic early warning, alert and system in an emergency setting, providing step-by-step instructions, real-life scenarios and examples facilitating adult learning.
Neglected Tropical Diseases Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: In this course, you will be introduced to the framework for monitoring and evaluating progress against the road map for NTDs 2021-2030 targets, also called the M&E framework.
Latest WHO HIV service delivery and differentiated service delivery for HIV treatment: This webinar-based series aims to disseminate the latest WHO 2021 service delivery and differentiated service delivery recommendations and promote increased knowledge of the newest WHO HIV guidance to ensure all people living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment can access person-centred and high-quality HIV services.
We are pleased to announce that OpenWHO now has a total of 201 courses spread across 65 languages. All courses can be accessed here. You can use the toolbar to filter courses by language and topic.
The Harmonized Health Facility Assessment (HHFA) channel includes training courses that prepare country stakeholders for planning and implementing a HHFA, for analysing and interpreting HHFA data, and communicating the findings. Courses are available for various target groups with different functions within the HHFA process.
The following two courses are now available on the channel:
• HHFA: Data review, interpretation, and communication
You can access the most recent newsletter here. The newsletter highlights are also available in Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Best wishes,
OpenWHO team
The World Health Organization’s open-access learning platform OpenWHO.org is issuing a call for abstracts to identify how our learning content is used in local, national and regional contexts, and adapted for use outside the platform.
We are particularly interested in capturing how materials have been used in workforce training and emergencies, as well as in capacity-building contexts, to prepare for or respond to disease outbreaks or health events. Abstracts that are accepted will be invited to be made into posters to be delivered at an online exhibition in July 2023.
The case studies will serve as evidence of OpenWHO use on the ground by health professionals and communities, providing examples beyond what can be captured on the platform and contributing to the body of knowledge on the multiplier effect of open online learning.
All submissions are due by 15 March 2023. Click here to learn more and submit your 150-250 word abstract.
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are mainly prevalent in tropical areas, where they affect impoverished, underserved communities. They cause devastating health, social and economic consequences.
WHO estimates that more than 1.7 billion people require treatment for at least one NTD every year.
As we mark World NTD Day on 30 January, join one of the 19 courses on our dedicated NTD channel to learn more.
You can help spread the word about these free online courses on social media using the tiles available here.
26 January 2023 marks three years since WHO launched its first OpenWHO.org course on the then-novel coronavirus and started providing accessible, up-to-date and informative health knowledge for a diverse global audience amid the fast-evolving pandemic. As of this date, OpenWHO offers a total of 190 online courses, 46 of which address COVID-19 topics, and has totaled 7.4 million course enrolments.
To adapt to a multilingual world and best serve the affected global population, OpenWHO courses have been produced in a total of 65 languages, with an average of four languages available per course. 15 country-specific learning channels have been developed with WHO Country Offices to provide access in Member States’ official languages. All learning content has been created and vetted by WHO science and expert teams to ensure its scientific accuracy.
To have the widest possible impact and reach learners from remote communities to high-tech metropolises, including in health emergency contexts, OpenWHO has leveraged existing technologies and is offering simple, adaptable and accessible learning content. OpenWHO courses are provided in self-paced, multi-use formats so learners have the option to participate whenever and however works best for them, in line with the universal design for learning framework. Materials are also increasingly optimized for a world in which many rely on mobile phones to stay informed.
Feedback received to date shows positive and encouraging trends. An analysis of two surveys for the platform’s second most popular course – Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in the context of COVID-19 – confirmed high user satisfaction, with learning needs overwhelmingly met. More than 95% of participants said they would change at least some IPC practices after the course, a majority of whom were women aged 20 to 39 years working in a health-related profession.
In addition, survey results from learners who followed the COVID-19 vaccination training for health workers confirmed the effectiveness of self-paced, multi-use formats from the user perspective, as well as the value of modular and low-bandwidth friendly materials to reduce barriers to access.
Finally, recent feedback indicates that OpenWHO’s learning reach has extended beyond the online platform as communities adapt materials to local contexts and key learners impart the knowledge they gained, creating a multiplier effect.
By harnessing the potential of simple formats and technologies to empower millions of people across the globe with knowledge to protect themselves and their communities, OpenWHO has helped WHO further the goal of supporting everyone, everywhere in attaining the highest level of health. Moving forward, this knowledge-transfer platform will remain an important and effective tool in the preparedness for and response to health emergencies across the globe.
Learning saves lives. That’s why WHO provides more than 190 online courses on public health topics for anyone interested, free of charge.
On 24 January, join us in celebrating International Day of Education by finding an OpenWHO course to help protect your community. Start learning today.
Help spread the word with WHO's LinkedIn post here.
OpenWHO delivers real-time learning for health emergencies across the globe, with a focus on courses for severe emerging diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential.
The platform offers courses on 33 diseases, including all priority disease categories identified under the WHO R&D Blueprint. To develop the priority list, a WHO tool distinguishes which diseases pose the greatest public health risk due to their epidemic potential and/or whether there is no or insufficient countermeasures.
In 2022, OpenWHO responded to 41 outbreaks through learning. The platform also produced courses to strengthen the response to other types of graded emergencies, including the flooding in Pakistan, food insecurity in the Horn of Africa and the conflict in Ukraine. In addition, OpenWHO hosts a suite of core emergency management courses and has refined its production systems to prepare for Disease X, a novel, unknown pathogen with pandemic potential.
On 27 December, commemorate International Day of Epidemic Preparedness by spreading the word about OpenWHO's free online courses with your networks. Learning saves lives – especially in health emergencies.
OpenWHO invites you to celebrate Arabic Language Day on 18 December by enrolling in one of 33 online courses available in Arabic on our free learning platform. The courses cover a variety of topics, including monkeypox, COVID-19, neglected tropical diseases, emergency management and community engagement.
In total, OpenWHO offers courses in 65 national and local languages to make learning accessible to communities across the globe. You can browse them here.
تدعوك منظمة الصحة العالمية المفتوحة للاحتفال بيوم اللغة العربية في 18 ديسمبر من خلال التسجيل في واحدة من 33 دورة تدريبية عبر الإنترنت متاحة باللغة العربية على منصتنا التعليمية المجانية. تغطي الدورات مجموعة متنوعة من الموضوعات، بما فيها: جدري القردة، فيروس كوفيد-19، أمراض المناطق المدارية المهملة، وإدارة الطوارئ والمشاركة المجتمعية.
في المجمل، تقدم المنصة دورات في 65 لغة وطنية ومحلية لجعل التعلم في متناول المجتمعات في جميع أنحاء العالم. يمكنك الإطلاع عليها هنا.
Millions of people have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in February.
Refugees and migrants from Ukraine may face challenges that hinder their access to health care in hosting and receiving countries, such as linguistic, financial and cultural barriers, discrimination and social exclusion. They have specific health needs and vulnerabilities requiring culturally sensitive care that recognizes the impact of migration and displacement on their physical and mental health.
As we prepare to mark International Migrants Day on 18 December, OpenWHO invites you to join our course Delivering quality health services to refugees and migrants from Ukraine. The course is designed to support health workers in hosting and receiving countries to provide quality and safe care that is responsive to the circumstances and particular health needs of people from Ukraine seeking health assistance.
Developed by the WHO Health and Migration Programme alongside clinicians providing health services to refugees and migrants, the 30-minute video course features 6 case studies that reflect the common health problems of conflict-affected populations fleeing Ukraine. Access the course here.
At least half of the people in the world do not receive the health services they need. About 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty each year because of out-of-pocket spending on health. This must change.
On 12 December, celebrate Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day by joining a course on our dedicated UHC learning channel. The courses address a range of topics – from health systems resilience, to vaccine safety, to oral health – that support WHO’s target of 1 billion more people benefitting from UHC.
UHC means that all people have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. Learn more about UHC Day 2022 on the WHO website.
As the United Nations’ public health agency, WHO has an important role to play in the global public health response to events involving the possible deliberate use of biological and chemical hazards against a human population.
The Chemical and Biological Deliberate Events (CBDE) channel hosts online training to provide basic knowledge for managing the consequences of a CBDE. A series of 3 courses is available:
On 12 December, please join WHO experts for a webinar introducing a new EWARS-in-a-box online training course on OpenWHO. During the session, you will hear about the importance of online training for emergency response, especially on early warning tools like EWARS in a box.
The free event will be held from 14:00 – 15:00 CET and is open to anyone interested.
Register for the webinar here.
OpenWHO launched a dedicated page with key learning resources for the Pakistan crisis. This page hosts a series of general courses on infectious diseases and emergency management that may be helpful in the context of a flood emergency. Some of the learning resources are also available in national languages such as Pashto and Urdu.
We are pleased to announce the following courses that were also recently made available:
Introduction to Nipah virus disease: This course introduces Nipah virus disease and outlines the signs, symptoms, diagnosis, transmission routes and epidemiology of the disease. It also discusses prevention and control strategies.
For a healthier world: safely managed sanitation: This course, part of WHO’s efforts to support capacity building globally, unpacks the health rationale for safely managed sanitation (SMS) and how programming approaches need to adapt to improve health outcomes.
WHO Good Reliance Practices: The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to WHO Good Reliance Practices (GRelP) and to advocate for the use of reliance in the regulatory oversight of medical products.
Monitoring methodologies for diet-related regulatory interventions to support a healthy food environment: This course provides guidance on how to effectively develop, implement and improve methods and systems for monitoring and enforcing food industry compliance, with particular reference to three key types of food regulations: labelling, reformulation and regulations on marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages to children.
Measles and rubella outbreak preparedness and response in South East Asia Region: This course aims to support programme managers and outbreak response teams with outbreak preparedness, response and recovery in countries that have targeted measles and rubella elimination.
Antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention and control: In this course, you will learn about what antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is and how resistant infections occur, which pathogens cause the biggest problems globally and in the health care setting, the risk factors and causes of AMR and, most importantly, the role of IPC in reducing AMR.
Bloodstream infections: In this course, you will learn about case definitions of bloodstream infections (BSI) due to catheter use, their epidemiology and the risk factors for acquiring BSIs.
Outbreak Investigations in health facilities: In this course, you will learn how to identify a health care-associated infection (HAI) outbreak in your facility and what to do after a HAI outbreak is identified.
New translations
The following 13 translations have been launched this month:
Updates to course content
The following course materials have been revised to reflect updates to the technical content and are now up to date:
We are pleased to announce that OpenWHO now has a total of 190 courses spread across 65 languages. All courses can be accessed here. You can use the toolbar to filter courses by language and topic. You can also access our catalogues which show all courses and languages available here.
You can access the most recent newsletter here. The newsletter highlights are also available in Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Another year of serving the world with free online learning for public health is coming to a close, and it would not have been possible without all of you. Thank you for being a part of the OpenWHO learning community. As we enter 2023, we will continue to work to provide you with the latest health knowledge to save lives, reduce disease transmission and protect the vulnerable.
Wishing you all a safe, healthy and happy new year.
Best wishes,
OpenWHO team
Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally affected people living with disabilities, highlighting the need for disability-inclusive COVID-19 response.
On 3 December, OpenWHO will join the global community in commemorating International Day of Persons with Disabilities under this year's theme: Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world.
OpenWHO is dedicated to tailoring its learning approaches to meet the needs of people living with disabilities. By doing so, OpenWHO helps make health information accessible across different communities, promoting equity in learning for health emergencies.
Learn more about the approaches OpenWHO has introduced in our recent article in WHO's Monthly Operational Update on COVID-19, available on p.16.
As the United Nations’ public health agency, WHO has an important role to play in the global public health response to events involving the possible deliberate use of biological and chemical hazards against a human population.
OpenWHO has launched a new Chemical and Biological Deliberate Events (CBDE) channel that hosts online training to provide basic knowledge for managing the consequences of a CBDE. General awareness is needed to better understand, prepare, detect and respond to deliberate events. Health care professionals will be among the key personnel responding to CBDEs, which will place exceptional strain on the health sector, so it is vital that public health personnel have a basic understanding of how to manage an effective response.
The channel hosts a series of 3 courses:
Participants in each course have the opportunity to earn certificates for both completion and achievement.
Safe sanitation systems are fundamental to protect public health. WHO supports capacity building and implementation through guidelines and tools on sanitation and health, safe use of wastewater and safe recreational water environments, using risk assessment to identify, prioritize, manage and monitor coordinated action to protect public health.
However, the world is alarmingly off-track to deliver Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 6.2, where Member States committed to achieve universal access to safe sanitation for everyone, everywhere by 2030. In fact, the rate at which sanitation coverage is increasing will need to quadruple globally if the world is to achieve the SDG sanitation targets.
To eliminate inequalities, progress must move 4 times faster in rural areas globally, 5 times faster in urban areas globally, 9 times faster in fragile contexts and 15 times faster in least developed countries. Overall, at current rates of progress, only 67% will have safe sanitation services, leaving 2.8 billion without by 2030. Without universal access, the world will not claim the myriad health, environmental and socio-economic benefits that come from safely managed sanitation.
As part of WHO’s efforts to support capacity building globally, OpenWHO has launched a new course that unpacks the health rationale for safely managed sanitation (SMS) and how programming approaches need to adapt to improve health outcomes. A safely managed sanitation service chain – from toilets, to containment, to transport, treatment, and finally safe use or disposal of wastewater and faecal by-products – is essential to protecting the health of individuals and communities and the environment.
The course also describes SDG 6.2 monitoring definitions for SMS and how that can be adapted and contextualized into national definitions and embedded in national level instruments for implementation and monitoring. Finally, it presents tools to assess status and monitor implementation of definitions at national and local level -- all to help governments, and the development agencies, civil society partners and others working with them, to achieve safely managed sanitation for their populations.
The course will take approximately 3 hours to complete and participants have the opportunity to earn certificates and digital badges to share their achievements. Access the course here and start learning today.
Sexual violence and intimate partner violence can be especially problematic in complex emergencies and natural disasters. In these situations, civilian women and children are often targets of abuse, exploitation and violence because of their sex, age, and status in society.
As we mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November, OpenWHO invites you to join our 5-course series that provides detailed guidance on the clinical management of survivors of rape and intimate partner violence. The series is intended for qualified healthcare workers providing services to survivors of rape and intimate partner violence in humanitarian emergencies. It considers available resources, materials, drugs, and national policies and procedures.
The 5 courses are available on our learning channel for preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PRSEAH) as follows:
Each course will take approximately 1 hour to complete. The series is being translated into Arabic and French for additional reach.
Learn more about International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women here.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections. It occurs when microorganisms develop resistance to medicines that are relied upon for treatment, making some conditions difficult or impossible to cure. As a result, infections persist in the body, increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.
From 18-24 November, OpenWHO invites you to observe World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) by joining any the following free courses on our AMR learning channel to help improve awareness and understanding of AMR and encourage best practices:
Learning saves lives. Help us spread the word about these important courses in line with this year's WAAW theme – “Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together”. You can learn more about WAAW here.
A majority of emerging diseases are shared by humans and animals, so adopting a One Health approach is essential. This approach is necessary to effectively prevent, detect and respond to health challenges that arise at the interface between humans, animals and the environment.
On 3 November, celebrate One Health Day by enrolling in one of the free online courses hosted on our One Health for Global Health Security learning channel. The channel provides learning resources for technical staff, decision-makers and the general public, supporting them to operationalize a One Health approach through tools, principles and best practices.
The following courses are currently available, with more to come:
OpenWHO is excited to share that we have been selected as a Finalist in the Learning Platform of Year category of the 2023 Learning Awards.
According to the Learning Awards team, "our independent judges hand-pick only a few Finalists from many hundreds of entries worldwide, so to make the shortlist is a phenomenal achievement."
OpenWHO will present the learning platform to a panel of judges in November. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in London, United Kingdom, on 16 February 2023.
Polio is a virus that spreads from person-to-person with the ability to cause paralysis. As we mark World Polio Day on 24 October, we invite you to join our free online course to learn more about poliovirus, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) partnership, and our core response strategies and the remaining challenges to eradication.
In 1988, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate polio. At the time, there were 125 endemic countries. Currently wild poliovirus remains in only two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The 1-hour training is aimed at all current and new polio staff and anyone interested in learning more about polio eradication. It utilizes short videos and quizzes to introduce the material and test your understanding, and provides the opportunity to earn a certificate and digital badge to share your achievement.
The course is currently available in English and French. Start learning today.
Food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition continue to increase globally due to the toxic combination of drivers such as conflicts and weather extremes and the effects of climate change and economic shocks.
On World Food Day 2022, we are focusing on building a sustainable world where everyone, everywhere has regular access to enough nutritious food.
OpenWHO provides a 30-minute course that introduces the basic concept of food insecurity and reviews the impact and implications of food crises on health, health systems and programming. The course also describes the structure and content of the Food Insecurity and Health Readiness and Response Strategic Framework and its 5 strategic domains – coordination and collaboration, surveillance and information, outbreak prevention and control, essential nutrition actions and health service actions – to support its use and operationalization of country-specific planning.
Celebrate World Food Day on 16 October by enrolling in the course, now available in English and French.
As we mark International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, OpenWHO is launching a new online course for urban leaders, planners and practitioners on transitioning to complex risk management and resilient urban futures.
Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious challenge to cities, exacerbating vulnerabilities and having a tremendous impact on urban health and well-being. The pandemic reveals the new reality: cities are living with uncertainties and facing much more complex risks. To build more resilient and sustainable urban futures, cities need to evolve to reflect the interconnectedness of people, the planet and prosperity, and need to transition to systematic risk governance with an enhanced understanding of risks.
The new course was jointly developed by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Global Education and Training Institute (UNDRR GETI), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and WHO headquarters. Based on a virtual training programme that was held from August to September 2022, the modules aim to:
The course will take approximately 4.5 hours to complete and participants have the opportunity to earn certificates and digital badges to share their achievements. Join the course here.
Sexual violence and intimate partner violence can be especially problematic in complex emergencies and natural disasters. In these situations, women and children are often targets of abuse, exploitation, and violence because of their sex, age and status in society. This five-course series is intended for healthcare workers providing services to survivors of rape and intimate partner violence in humanitarian settings. For a better learning experience, we recommend accessing the courses in the order listed below:
OpenWHO launched a course on delivering quality health services to refugees and migrants from Ukraine, the first WHO course in video format to support health workers in hosting and receiving countries to provide quality and safe care that is responsive to the circumstances and particular health needs of people from Ukraine seeking health assistance.
The course CBDE Awareness: Recognizing Signs of Deliberate Release of Chemical or Biological Agents aims to ensure that emergency responders recognize possible deliberate events with chemical or biological agents and know the different response types this will require compared to other emergencies. You will have the opportunity to explore interactive videos and exercises, with pop-up texts and knowledge checks across the course modules. A new OpenWHO learning experience is at your fingertips!
We are pleased to announce the following courses that were also recently made available:
Neglected tropical diseases: road map and sustainability framework 2021-2030: OpenWHO courses: The learning package comprises two online courses that aim to give participants a comprehensive overview of the overriding strategic goals and key challenges that NTD professionals and programmes are likely to face over the coming decade: 1) NTD road map strategy; and 2) the Sustainability Framework.
One Health in action against Neglected Tropical Diseases: This course provides practical ideas, tools and examples to enable each of us to take One Health action towards the global goal of substantially reducing the burden of NTDs by 2030
WHO costing and budgeting tool for national action plans on antimicrobial resistance: The aim of this course is to introduce the WHO costing and budgeting tool for national action plans on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The tool is designed to support operationalization and to accelerate implementation of national action plans on AMR.
6 steps for sustainable implementation of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance: This course covers the 6 steps for sustainable implementation of national action plans on AMR from the “WHO implementation handbook for national action plans on antimicrobial resistance: guidance for the human health sector”.
Health inequality monitoring foundations courses: This 5- course series addresses the need for capacity strengthening in health inequality monitoring, with courses organized according to the following topics: an overview of terminology and concepts, data sources, health disaggregation, summary measures of health inequality and reporting.
New translations
The following 7 translations have been launched this month:
Updates to course content
The following course materials have been revised to reflect updates to the technical content and are now up to date:
We are pleased to announce that OpenWHO now has 46 courses on COVID-19, with a total of 177 courses spread across 65 languages. All courses for COVID-19 can be accessed here. You can use the toolbar to filter courses by language. You can also access our catalogues which show all courses and languages available for COVID-19 and other health topics here.
Four OpenWHO courses have received Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accreditation, certifying that they have been independently assessed and approved for personal and professional development: Ready4Response Tier 1 and Tier 2, the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre and Health Cluster Coordination. Certificates from officially verified CPD courses indicate to learners and professional bodies that the learning value has been scrutinized to ensure both integrity and quality.
This portal offers learning resources to support a country's response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other health threats. Created in collaboration with WHO Country Offices and Ministries of Health, resources based on WHO scientific guidance are available in each country’s official language(s) to empower frontline health workers, policymakers and the public. Armenia and Poland are the most recent additions to our Serving Countries portal.
You can access the most recent newsletter here. The newsletter highlights are also available in Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Best wishes,
OpenWHO team
10 October is World Mental Health Day, which provides us with an opportunity to re-kindle our efforts to protect and improve mental health, including in emergencies.
OpenWHO offers an online orientation course to strengthen the competencies of health sector actors working in emergencies to establish, support and scale up Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in countries. The focus of this course is on how to apply existing practical, evidence-based, scalable tools and practice-led approaches for successful implementation of projects to strengthen MHPSS in emergencies operations, protection from mental health and psychosocial consequences of crises and towards the realization of universal mental health coverage.
Through this training, you will learn about key approaches to advocacy and to identify entry points for mental health and psychosocial integration as an integral and cross-cutting component in public health emergency responses and in humanitarian emergencies. The training will also emphasize a focus on early recovery, highlighting WHO’s past successes in building back better.
The course will take approximately 7 hours to complete, with the opportunity to earn a certificate and digital badge to share your achievement.
The training is currently available in 4 languages, which you can access below:
Since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis on 24 February 2022, millions of people have fled Ukraine, crossing borders into neighbouring countries.
Refugees and migrants from Ukraine may face challenges that hinder their access to health care in hosting and receiving countries, such as linguistic, financial and cultural barriers, discrimination and social exclusion. They have specific health needs and vulnerabilities requiring culturally sensitive care that recognizes the impact of migration and displacement on their physical and mental health.
Today, WHO published Delivering quality health services to refugees and migrants from Ukraine, the first WHO course in video format to support health workers in hosting and receiving countries to provide quality and safe care that is responsive to the circumstances and particular health needs of people from Ukraine seeking health assistance.
Developed by the WHO Health and Migration Programme alongside clinicians providing health services to refugees and migrants, the 30-minute video course features six case studies that reflect the common health problems of conflict-affected populations fleeing Ukraine.
As we mark International Translation Day on 30 September, OpenWHO is proud to offer free online public health courses in 65 different languages so that more communities can access and easily understand life-saving public health information.
Learning is easier in your own language. OpenWHO courses are translated into as many languages as possible to enhance learning uptake and retention, and advance equity in access to public health knowledge.
Languages available on our platform include 19 of the 20 most spoken languages worldwide, as well as the official languages of 44 of the 46 least-developed countries.
In total, 19.7 million words have been translated to empower people with knowledge to protect their health and the health of their communities.
Celebrate International Translation Day by learning in your language on OpenWHO!
Despite being fully preventable, dog-mediated human rabies kills tens of thousands of people every year, especially in rural and impoverished areas in Africa and Asia.
On World Rabies Day 2022, learn about rabies and the One Health approach currently taken to prevent it by enrolling in our free online course.
This course provides participants with knowledge about the biology and epidemiology of this Neglected Zoonotic Disease, the current “Zero by 30” rabies elimination strategy, and how to prevent rabies in people and dogs by taking a One Health approach. The learning package consists of 7 modules, which include downloadable video-lectures by global experts and professionals confronted with rabies in the field.
The course is available in English, French and Russian and will take approximately 3 hours to complete. You will have the opportunity to earn a course certificate and a digital badge to share your achievement on social media. Start learning today!
OpenWHO is continuing to expand its Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) learning channel, recently adding courses on how to apply One Health action to NTDs and presenting the flagship NTD road map strategy document and accompanying sustainability framework.
All 3 courses are self-paced and open to anyone interested, with the opportunity to earn course certificates and digital badges:
Learn more about why the road map and sustainability framework courses were developed in this WHO news post. The One Health course was also featured on the WHO website earlier this month.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, OpenWHO made our “Introduction to COVID-19” learning materials available in Indian sign language to help meet the needs of learners in one of the world’s most populous countries and beyond.
Today the course hosts 55 000 learners across 150 countries, with 88.1% of learners located in India, and other key learning communities situated in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Half of the learners are students (33.3%), health professionals (9.6%) or personnel of non-governmental organizations (8.4%).
Of the 65 languages available on the OpenWHO learning platform, Indian sign language is the 7th most popular overall.
On 23 September, celebrate International Day of Sign Languages by spreading the word about these important resources and raising awareness of the importance of sign language in the full realization of the human rights of people who are deaf. Learn more about the international day here.
On 17 September, OpenWHO invites you to observe World Patient Safety Day by expanding your knowledge in one of our free online courses. This year's theme is medication safety, in recognition that medication harm accounts for 50% of the overall preventable harm in medical care.
OpenWHO courses related to medication safety include:
Safety in administering medicines for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): Safety is a primary concern for NTD programmes. For example, medicines that are donated for treatment are manufactured under stringent regulatory authority guidelines or are prequalified by WHO, with considerable effort in determining safety for mass treatment and in conducting surveillance for serious adverse events. These training modules are intended to help national programmes for NTDs plan, prepare and monitor the safe administration of medicines for treatment of these diseases.
Antimicrobial Stewardship: A competency-based approach: This course will equip clinicians who frequently prescribe antimicrobials with knowledge and tools to improve their use of these essential medications in daily clinical practice. Through case based examples, the course will highlight how antimicrobial stewardship principles can be applied to common clinical scenarios.
Standard precautions: Injection safety and needle-stick injury management: In this course, you will learn about the causes of unsafe injection practices, how to safely give injections, and how to safely dispose of needles and other sharps. You will also learn what to do when needle-stick injuries occur, how to manage potential exposures, and ways to protect yourself, the staff and patients in your facility, and your community.
You can view OpenWHO's full offering of courses on 169 health topics here.
Register here for a webinar about the new "Health Inequality Monitoring Foundations" course series on the Health Inequality Monitoring channel of OpenWHO:
When: 14 September 2022, 13:00-14:00 CET
WHO is committed to advancing health equity around the globe. Yet, in 2020, only half of countries included disaggregated data as part of their published national health statistics reports. Health inequality monitoring provides critical evidence to determine who is being left behind, and inform equity-oriented changes to policies, programmes and practices.
A new WHO eLearning course series, "Health Inequality Monitoring Foundations", addresses the need for capacity strengthening in health inequality monitoring. This 5-course series is delivered in a self-directed learning environment, designed to meet the immediate learning needs of users. It is primarily targeted to monitoring and evaluation officers, researchers, analysts, and others with a general interest in health data and inequality monitoring.
The Overview course gives a general introduction to the health inequality monitoring cycle and related key terminology and concepts.
The Data sources course examines the strengths, limitations and opportunities to improve common data sources for health inequality monitoring, as well as the processes of data source mapping and data linking.
The Health data disaggregation course explores how disaggregated health data are integral across the steps of monitoring, and guides learners in assessing and reporting disaggregated data.
The Summary measures of health inequality course discusses the general characteristics of simple and complex summary measures, and guides learners through the selection, calculation, interpretation and reporting of a range of measures.
The Reporting course demonstrates the components of high-quality health inequality reporting, emphasizing purpose-driven, audience-centred and technically rigorous approaches.
Each course will take approximately 1.5 hours to complete and can be completed at your own pace, all at once or in several sittings. You will have the opportunity to earn a course certificate and digital badge to share your achievement on social media for all 5 courses in the series.
Additional courses are available on the Health Inequality Monitoring channel, which was recently highlighted as a tool for capacity strengthening in the International Journal for Equity in Health:
"The courses on the Health Inequality Monitoring channel demonstrate how technical information can be simplified and presented to broad audiences in a manner that is highly accessible to learners. The Health Inequality Monitoring channel on OpenWHO is an innovative and necessary addition to existing tools and resources to support the advancement of health equity."
You can read the full publication here.
As health threats continue to challenge communities across the globe, WHO is taking steps to ensure high-quality training in emergency management is available to keep people safer in these crises.
6 WHO emergency management courses have achieved Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accreditation, certifying that they have been independently assessed and approved for personal and professional development. Certificates from officially verified CPD courses indicate to learners and professional bodies that the learning value has been scrutinized to ensure both integrity and quality. The accredited training includes 2 blended courses that use a mix of online, peer and face-to-face learning methods and 4 open online courses hosted on OpenWHO.org.
The 2 blended courses make up the 2 “phases” of the Leadership in Emergencies programme, which helps WHO and Ministry of Health staff develop key leadership skills to fulfil Team Lead, Health Cluster Coordinator and Incident Manager roles in health emergencies. Initially organized in-person, the Leadership in Emergencies courses were digitalized when in-person learning was disrupted by the pandemic.
Phase 1 is an 8-week course of online classes and group work focused on developing leadership skills. Phase 2 provides concentrated and specialist training on the use of transversal skills in an emergency setting using a mix of online classes and a workshop. To date, 165 participants have attended the Phase 1 course, while 48 have attended Phase 2.
“Leadership skills are essential for health emergency response” said Andrew Black, the WHO Technical Officer who manages the Leadership programme. “We are thrilled that these courses have been accredited for Continuing Professional Development, bringing renewed credibility and benefit for learners in this critical training.”
Open online learning
The other 4 accredited courses are available in self-paced formats for anyone interested on WHO’s free online learning platform OpenWHO.org.
The Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) course, available in 9 languages, is aimed at health emergency preparedness and response professionals, policy makers and partners seeking to implement and sustain PHEOCs. A PHEOC is a physical location for the coordination of information and resources to support incident management activities.
The Health Cluster coordination course developed by the Global Health Cluster also received its accreditation. Health Clusters exist to relieve suffering and save lives in humanitarian emergencies, while advancing the well-being and dignity of affected populations. This course was designed to increase the skills and knowledge of Health Cluster teams and partners and to strengthen the efficiency and accountability of all stakeholders in responding to humanitarian crises.
The Ready4Response course series, which serves as a foundation for the Leadership in Emergencies programme, was certified earlier this year. The multi-tiered core curriculum aims to develop consistent learning standards across the emergency response workforces at national level and equips participants with essential competencies needed to work within public health emergency response. The Tier 1 course focuses on the response context and principles, while Tier 2 addresses systems, structures and skills.
Achieving these 6 accreditations further advances the WHO Health Emergencies Programme’s goal of improving health emergency response in all contexts by providing the highest quality learning content to global learners.
As we mark World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, OpenWHO is proud to host free multilingual learning resources to support the response to humanitarian crises. This includes a new course on food insecurity available in English and French, as well as 18 courses in Ukrainian to support the response to health emergencies in Ukraine.
OpenWHO also offers online courses that address many diseases currently causing outbreaks, including:
As we mark World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, OpenWHO is proud to host free multilingual learning resources to support the response to humanitarian crises. This includes a new course on food insecurity available in English and French, as well as 18 courses in Ukrainian to support the response to health emergencies in Ukraine.
OpenWHO also offers online courses that address many diseases currently causing outbreaks, including:
We are pleased to announce the following courses that were recently made available:
New translations
The following 19 translations have been launched this month:
Updates to course content
The following course materials have been revised to reflect updates to the technical content and are now up to date:
We are pleased to announce that OpenWHO now has 46 courses on COVID-19, with a total of 165 courses spread across 65 languages. All courses for COVID-19 can be accessed here. You can use the toolbar to filter courses by language. You can also access our catalogues which show all courses and languages available for COVID-19 and other health topics here.
You can access the most recent newsletter here. The newsletter highlights are also available in Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
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As we mark International Youth Day, OpenWHO invites you to sign up for our free course on mycetoma, available on the Neglected Tropical Diseases learning channel.
Mycetoma is a chronic, disfiguring disease usually of the foot but any part of the body can be affected. The disease commonly affects young adults, mostly males aged between 15 and 30 years in developing, tropical countries. People of low socioeconomic status and manual workers such as agriculturalists, labourers and herdsmen are the worst affected.
Mycetoma has numerous adverse medical, health and socioeconomic impacts on patients, families and their communities. Accurate data on its incidence and prevalence are not available. Treatment is often unsatisfactory in people with advanced disease and amputation may be required. Therefore, early detection and management are important to reduce morbidity and improve outcomes.
The aim of this 30-minute course is to provide information about mycetoma to increase the knowledge and skills of national and front-line health workers to address this disease. A Record of Achievement certificate will be issued to participants who receive at least 80% on the post-test. The course is currently available in English and Arabic. Sign up today!
The World Health Organization is celebrating a new milestone in online learning: 7 million enrolments in OpenWHO.org’s free public health courses!
The record-setting participation comes as health emergencies continue to affect communities across the globe, generating demand for trusted and accessible public health knowledge. OpenWHO course enrolments have surged more than 4000% percent in just over 2.5 years, increasing from 160 000 in January 2020 to 7 million in August 2022.
The OpenWHO platform hosts courses on 165 public health topics, including training to support the response to outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, monkeypox, polio, cholera, Marburg virus disease and plague, as well as for ongoing events like food insecurity and the crisis in Ukraine.
Courses are available in 65 languages – most recently adding Georgian to the offering – so that communities can access life-saving public health information in their native languages, making it easier to understand. This includes the 15 most commonly spoken languages worldwide and the official languages of 44 out of 46 of the least-developed countries.
More than 3.7 million course certificates have been issued to OpenWHO learners, who have shared more than 50 000 digital badges on social media to celebrate their achievements.
“We want to make it as easy as possible for people across the world to access the trusted, science-based public health information that they need,” said Heini Utunen, acting Head of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme’s Learning and Capacity Development Unit, which manages the OpenWHO platform. “Equity is the cornerstone of our learning response to health emergencies.”
OpenWHO’s global community of learners recently shared examples of how they have benefited from the learning platform at an open webinar celebrating OpenWHO’s 5th anniversary.
“I have learned many things about the COVID-19 pandemic from courses of the OpenWHO programme,” one learner said. “It literally helps me to speak with my local community. Because I am a pharmacist, I have been asked so many questions about risk, possibilities and about medications and I have shared the knowledge that I got from professionals from these courses.”
“I would like to thank everyone who contributed to developing this wonderful idea and providing this valuable information for free,” said another OpenWHO learner.
OpenWHO: Open to all, anytime, from anywhere. Start learning today.
Business Post Nigeria highlighted OpenWHO's new free online course on noma in a recent news article.
“This course will be a useful self-learning tool for health workers to increase their capacity to prevent, identify, treat and refer noma considering both public health and human rights aspects.
“Officers in charge of noma at the national and district level can also utilize the course material to train primary care workers,” says Yuka Makino, a technical officer for oral health at the WHO Regional Office for Africa.
Noma (cancrum oris) is a serious gangrenous disease of the mouth and face, mainly affecting children aged 2 to 6 years in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite substantial knowledge gaps, it is reported to be linked with malnutrition, poor oral hygiene, immunosuppression and living in extreme poverty situations.
The aim of the course is to provide information about noma, and to increase the knowledge and skills of national and front-line health workers to help them prevent, identify and treat this disease. A Record of Achievement certificate will be available to participants who score at least 80% in the final assessment.
Given the challenges in capturing up-to-date social and behavioural data in emergencies, WHO has developed the ‘Social and Behavioural Insights COVID-19 Data Collection Tool for Africa’ (available in English, French and Portuguese).
Recently a course explaining how to use the tool was launched in English and is now available in French. The course is part of the SocialNet series supporting social science, risk communication and community engagement in response to health emergencies, with additional courses expected to launch in the coming months.
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Global Education and Training Institute (UNDRR GETI), United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and WHO have joined together to deliver a unique online training for local authorities and urban practitioners: Transitioning to Complex Risk Management and Resilient Urban Futures: Harnessing South-South Cooperation and Learning from COVID-19.
The training will be held on 23 and 30 August and 6 and 13 September 2022, for a total of 4 online sessions in English with simultaneous interpretation in Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish. The programme includes an end-of-course assessment and a post-course survey.
Register for the training before 15 August 2022 at https://virtual-expo.southsouth-galaxy.org/en/SSC-DRR-PAHO-WHO-joint-training.
More information is available at https://www.undrr.org/event/undrr-unossc-who-paho2022.
WHO has launched its introductory online course on cholera in Ukrainian on the free OpenWHO.org learning platform, responding to the ongoing risk of cholera outbreak in Ukraine.
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food. It can lead to dehydration, and death in patients with severe forms of the disease. The 1-hour self-paced introductory level course is intended for personnel responsible for prevention and control of cholera and for those involved in cholera outbreaks and response.
The WHO Country Office in Ukraine has worked closely with the Learning and Capacity Development Unit in WHO headquarters on the development of OpenWHO courses in Ukraine's national language. This course is the 18th to launch on OpenWHO’s Ukraine learning channel to support the country’s preparedness for and response to public health emergencies. Additional Ukrainian courses are currently under development on a variety of topics, including rabies, health and peace, operational readiness, health emergency response and vaccine safety.
We are committed to increasing equitable access to learning. Part of this commitment includes providing learning in learners' preferred languages. We are proud to say that Ready4Response Tiers 1 and 2 – our foundational courses – are now available on OpenWHO.org in French:
Ready4Response is a multi-tiered core curriculum that aims to develop consistent learning standards across the emergency response workforces at national level. It equips participants with essential competencies needed to work within public health emergency response.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that all countries are challenged in their abilities to respond to emergencies. Having access to the right people, with the right skills and training, at the right time and location is essential to saving lives and protecting the health of people, societies and economies during an emergency.
Tier 1 provides context and principles of the all-hazards approach to emergency response, outlining the various actors involved, their roles and structural relationships. It also examines in-depth WHO's role in response, and discusses core ethics and principles all responders must follow.
Tier 2 focuses on the Incident Management System (IMS) and its core functions. It also examines core skills required to work effectively in a response team and describes the basic principles of risk management.
Both Ready4Response courses are "Continuing Professional Development" certified. Tier 1 is also available in English, Portuguese and Lao, and Tier 2 is also available in English and Lao.
Food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition continue to increase globally due to the toxic combination of drivers such as conflicts and weather extremes and the effects of climate change and economic shocks.
Food crises are also health emergencies: food shortages and factors associated with them determine an increase in the nutrition and health risks of the population affected and a consequent increase in the need for preventive and curative health care. While malnutrition increases risk of new diseases and of deterioration of existing diseases, especially among children, pregnant and lactating women (PLWs), people living with chronic diseases and disabilities, and the elderly, food insecurity also contributes to deterioration in health-seeking behaviour and increasing access barriers to health care with consequent negative impact on service coverage – especially in a context where health systems are already under-resourced and disrupted.
As the role of WHO and of the health sector in food insecurity and food crises has been often underestimated and neglected, an internal WHO strategic framework for readiness and preparedness was elaborated by a dedicated multi-departmental working group, in collaboration with the Eastern Mediterranean and African regions, to support the strengthening of WHO national capacities for a more prompt, effective and resilient health system response to food insecurity and famine.
The course "The Food Insecurity and Health Readiness and Response Strategic Framework" provides an introduction to the basic concepts of food insecurity, the impact and implications of food crises in health, health systems and programming, and the structure and content of the Strategic Framework and its 5 strategic domains (coordination and collaboration, surveillance and information, outbreak prevention and control, essential nutrition actions, health service actions) to support its use and operationalization in the framework of country-specific planning.
Health inequalities exist in every population. A health inequality refers to an observable difference in health between subgroups in a population. With the necessary data, health inequalities can be measured, compared and tracked over time.
OpenWHO has launched a new learning channel that includes training courses about the foundations of health inequality monitoring, its application to specific topics and skill building. Health inequality monitoring entails quantifying and assessing health inequalities in a defined population to inform where changes are needed to advance health equity.
Two courses are currently available on the channel:
Digital technologies have proven potential to enhance health outcomes by improving medical diagnosis, data-based treatment decisions, digital therapeutics, clinical trials, self-management of care and person-centred care, as well as creating more evidence-based knowledge, skills and competence for professionals to support health care.
OpenWHO's new Digital Health and Innovation channel provides advice on how to expand the use of digital technologies and maximize the opportunities of the digital transformation of health care to enable sustainable health systems and universal health coverage, while avoiding pitfalls and managing risks.
The channel currently hosts one course on ethics and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) for health and will continue to expand its offerings in the coming months.
Adapted from the core contents of the Guidance on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health, the course introduces entry-level knowledge to policymakers, AI developers and designers, and health care providers who are involved in designing, developing, using and regulating AI technology for health.
AI has enormous potential for improving health outcomes and helping countries achieve universal health coverage. However, for AI to have a beneficial impact on people’s health, ethical considerations and human rights must be placed at the centre of its design, development and use.
The course will take approximately 3.5 hours to complete, and offers both Confirmation of Participation and Record of Achievement certificates. Participants who receive a Record of Achievement can also download a digital badge for the course.
As OpenWHO celebrated 5 years of operations, the learning platform's role in providing trusted information during emergency response was highlighted on the openSAP Invites Thought Leaders podcast.
The episode featured Heini Utunen, who serves as Acting Head of the Learning and Capacity Development Unit in the WHO Health Emergencies Programme and manages the OpenWHO platform. You can listen to the podcast here.
"Our contribution to the learning in public health is that of equity," Utunen said. "We believe that it's the cornerstone for any action that we take with learning materials and learning interventions to enable as many people as possible to access and utilize the materials and make it as easy as possible for the learner to join the learning journey."