To better understand the health needs being addressed through online consultations, for reference, Doctor Anywhere’s 2024 data highlight the top five most in-demand specialties: dermatology, ear, nose ...

The Commission on Audit (COA), the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of the Philippines led the 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Working ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. hailed the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA), calling it a key force in transforming multilateral cooperation in global health. “As a country that stands alongside the ...

DOH Secretary Teodoro J. Herbosa (left) presides over the WHA78 (Photo courtesy of WHO) MANILA – The World Health Assembly (WHA) has elected Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa as president of its 78th ...

“I urge the world’s health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call,” Kennedy said. “It isn’t that President (Donald) Trump and I have lost interest in ...

Progress roundup: Philippine island boosts incomes and mangrove forests, Colombia protects isolated tribes, and U.S. home care workers thrive in co-ops.

Members of the World Health Organization came together on a critical agreement that outlines how members would react to pandemics after the COVID-19 outbreak.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines, through the Department of Health (DOH), has committed to champion health equity worldwide as the country takes over the role of being the president of the ...

The WHA is the highest health policy-setting body of the World Health Organization (WHO), composed of health ministers from all member states. “President Marcos’ direction is to address long-term ...

A worker arranges UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian aid in a UAE plane headed to Egypt’s El-Arish airport on January 24, 2025 at an airport in Dubai, as part of a humanitarian ...

As the health policy research organization KFF explains, the WHO is also dependent on the U.S. for technical expertise, and the U.S. is a major player in WHO governance and in advocating for reforms.