Week ending 24 October 2026
- 2026-10-23 · WHO: Bundibugyo virus disease in DRC, Kenya and Nigeria — continued transmission in DRC and imported cases in Kenya and Nigeria.
- 2026-10-23 · WHO: Global respiratory virus activity — week 41 surveillance, with low global activity and regional variation.
- 2026-10-23 · WHO: Influenza molecular detection and sequencing — protocols, assay validation and laboratory quality assurance; meeting held in June 2025.
- 2026-10-22 · WHO: Sri Lanka’s vector-borne disease programme review — malaria, leishmaniasis, filariasis and dengue; mission conducted in May 2024.
- 2026-10-21 · WHO: Onchocerciasis Technical Advisory Subgroup nominations — applications close 19 November 2026.
- 2026-10-20 · WHO: Sri Lanka’s rabies control programme review — human and animal health programme assessment; mission conducted in September 2025.
Earlier in October 2026
- 2026-10-16 · WHO: Influenza vaccine composition for the 2027 southern hemisphere season — technical account of the September 2026 recommendation.
- 2026-10-15 · WHO: NTD inclusion criteria under review — requests to add diseases are temporarily paused.
- 2026-10-15 · WHO: MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia — outbreak surveillance update.
- 2026-10-13 · WHO: NTD medicine supply chain coordination — forecasting, logistics and country-level delivery.
- 2026-10-12 · WHO: Pandemic Hub strategy for 2026–2030 — an ambition to detect emerging outbreaks within 24 hours.
- 2026-10-09 · WHO: Global dengue update — surveillance and reported activity in 2026.
- 2026-10-09 · WHO: Onchocerciasis elimination progress, 2025–2026 — preventive chemotherapy and transmission interruption.
- 2026-10-07 · Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition: Beyond coverage — a framework for measuring health campaign effectiveness.
Events on the radar
- 2026-10-27–2026-10-29 · WHO · Event: Malaria Policy Advisory Group meeting — virtual; malaria policy and technical evidence.
- 2026-11-03 · AMMnet · Event: Cabo Verde’s journey to malaria-free certification — elimination, surveillance and preventing re-establishment.
- 2026-11-10 · AMMnet · Event: Epidemic forecasting with an AI coding agent — practical modelling and evaluation using partial outbreak data.
- 2026-11-30 · WHO · Event: Blackfly surveillance for the onchocerciasis endgame — webinar with English–French interpretation.
- 2027-01-31–2027-02-03 · MalVax · Event: MalVax 2027 — malaria vaccine research and development; Kuala Lumpur.
Featured resources
- WHO influenza surveillance and monitoring — Find case definitions, surveillance guidance and methods for assessing influenza epidemic severity.
- WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence — Explore WHO’s work on collaborative surveillance, data analysis and intelligence for detecting and responding to epidemic threats.