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About WHO South-East Asia
One of the six WHO Regions, WHO South-East Asia is home to a quarter of the world’s population.
Committed to building a better, healthier future for the nearly two billion people in the Region, WHO is working with the 10 Member States to address persisting and emerging epidemiological and demographic challenges.
Call for nomination
WHO South-East Asia Award for Public Health Champion
WHO has established regional award for Public Health Champion to recognize and honor exceptional contributions to public health in the WHO South-East Asia Region.
Deadline for nomination - 31 July 2025.
The awardees will be honored with a citation and a plaque at WHO’s regional governing body meeting in October this year.
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On 23 May 2025, at the Seventy-eighth session of the World Health Assembly Member States approved the request from the Government of Indonesia for the country’s reassignment from the South-East Asia Region to the Western Pacific Region.
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Global Leprosy Programme
The Global Leprosy Programme (GLP) of the World Health Organization is housed in the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (and not in the Organization’s headquarters in Geneva). It is the Organization’s designated programme for addressing leprosy worldwide. Being classified as one of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the unit works in close collaboration with the Department of Control of NTDs in HQ, designated focal points in all regions, national leprosy programmes and partners.
World Health Day 2025
Deadline extended until 17 July Expression of interest – WHO SEARO Youth Council
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22 May 2024
100 strides @ 100 days
The WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, Saima Wazed, assumed office on 1 February 2024. Within 100 days, Ms Wazed has rolled out a defining vision...
This epidemiological bulletin aims to provide the situation of key infectious diseases in the WHO South-East Asia region to inform risk assessments and...
18 June 2025
12th edition, Epidemiological Bulletin WHO Health Emergencies Programme WHO Regional Office for South-East...
This epidemiological bulletin aims to provide the situation of key infectious diseases in the WHO South-East Asia region to inform risk assessments and...
Polio-free certification of the WHO South-East Asia Region
SEARO Care: an initiative tailored to promote and protect staff mental health and wellbeing
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