Public health intelligence - 2026 - WHO | Regional Office for Africa
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The WHO African Region continued to face a complex and evolving landscape of public healththreats in 2025, characterized by recurrent infectious disease outbreaks, humanitarianemergencies, climate-related disasters, and increasing cross-border health risks. PublicHealth Intelligence (PHI) remained central to WHO AFRO’s efforts to strengthen earlydetection, risk assessment, situational awareness, and evidence-based decision-makingfor health emergencies across the Region. During 2025, the Regional Public Health Intelligence team coordinated event-basedsurveillance, epidemic intelligence, rapid risk assessments, humanitarian situationanalyses, and analytical information products to support Member States and partners inresponding to acute public health events. The year also marked significant expansion ofthe Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS) initiative and continued integrationof innovative intelligence approaches, including speech-to-text radio mining and machinelearning-supported signal classification.
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