World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan voiced deep concern about the increase worldwide of childhood obesity, with numbers climbing fastest in developing countries.

A steady stream of residents stood up Wednesday to back County Manager Frank Rodriguez and his decision to recommend hiring as public health director a legal U.S. resident whose resume ...

"It has not yet become a global health emergency. It may yet become one," World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as Wuhan closed its city limits. Shoppers raced ...

On Monday, the Director of the Pandemic Center Jennifer Nuzzo presented a lecture titled “Pandemic-Proofing the Future” at a ...

Governments and global health groups are working to try to fill the most urgent gaps in the fight against diseases after the ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the ... in the fight against TB is at risk,” Dr. Tereza Kasaeva, director of the WHO’s Global Programme on TB and Lung Health, said in ...

Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced Covid-19 had become a pandemic -- a moment when the world ...

The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Jarbas Barbosa, has underscored the need to address public ...

Minister of State for International Cooperation HE Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al Misnad met today with the Regional Director ...

This year’s theme, “Food safety: science in action,” draws attention to the use of scientific knowledge as key to reducing ...