World Health Assembly 2026

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Events

Preventing lead poisoning to save lives

Monday, May 18
8:00-9:00 (CET)
École Hôtelière de Genève, Restaurant Vieux Bois

With the World Health Organization and Bloomberg Philanthropies, we’ll offer a first look at the forthcoming WHO Technical Package for Lead Poisoning Prevention.

Register now to attend in person or virtually.

Epidemics That Didn’t Happen

Monday, May 18
8:00-9:00 (CET)
InterContinental Genève

Resolve to Save Lives, the 7-1-7 Alliance, the Gates Foundation and the Pandemic Fund invite you to the launch of Epidemics That Didn’t Happen—our flagship report on the power of epidemic preparedness.

 Register now to attend in person.

Five Years of Global Collaboration on Diabetes

Monday, May 18
18:00-20:00 (CET)
InterContinental Genève 

Co-hosted by The Helmsley Charitable Trust, Resolve to Save Lives, and the World Diabetes Foundation, the evening marks five years since the launch of the World Health Organization Global Diabetes Compact.

Emergency-Ready Primary healthcare: Operationalising Preparedness and Resilience at the Frontline

Thursday, May 21
18:00-19:30 (CET)
Palais des Nations, Salle V

With the World Health Organization and Ministries of Health from Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Nigeria and the Syrian Arab Republic, we’ll launch the Emergency-Ready Primary healthcare Framework and mobilize commitment for its adoption and implementation.

Register now to attend in person.

Protecting one billion hearts

Monday, May 19 at 18:00-20:00 (CET)

École Hôtelière de Genève, Restaurant Vieux Bois

Partnering to accelerate access to blood pressure-lowering medications together with the World Heart Foundation. Join us in person or register to watch the event online.

Foundations for sustainable health

Thursday, May 22 at 08:00-10:00 (CET)

InterContinental Genève

Join us as we launch a blueprint for building epidemic-ready and climate-resilient primary healthcare with our partners at Jacobs. RSVP here.

Outsmarting outbreaks

Tuesday, May 20 at 07:15-09:15 (CET)

InterContinental Genève 

With the Gates Foundation, a spotlight on the role of vaccines and the importance of innovation, collaborative surveillance and broad investment in stopping outbreaks. 

Resources

Resources

Resolve to Save Lives: Our approach

Resolve to Save Lives closes the gap between proven, life-saving solutions and the people who need them

Resources

Epidemic prevention

7-1-7 Early Disease Detection

The 7-1-7 target sets three timeliness metrics for outbreak detection, notification, and early response — helping countries identify bottlenecks and improve performance.

Epidemics that didn’t happen

Read our reports showcasing outbreaks that were stopped in their tracks.

Resources

Health taxes

Health taxes

Resolve to Save Lives works with partners to implement health taxes that deliver healthier people, lower healthcare costs, and more government revenue for essential programs.

Dr. Tom Frieden: Busting 10 Myths About Health Taxes

In this op ed published in Think Global Health, Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, counters ten common 10 common misconceptions used to block healthy tax policy.

Should health tax revenue be earmarked?

Overview of health tax earmarking, including best practices, pros and cons, and examples from the Philippines, Thailand and Ghana.

Health tax lessons from Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa

Examples from South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania show what works in health taxation.

Industry narratives on health taxes — and what the evidence says

Short, evidence-backed responses to common industry arguments against health taxes, drawing on African and global experience, from Resolve to Save Lives

Catalytic implementation partnership: health taxes

Resolve to Save Lives partners with governments to support implementation of best-practice excise taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages

Dr. Tom Frieden: Busting 10 Myths About Health Taxes

In this op ed published in Think Global Health, Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, counters ten common 10 common misconceptions used to block healthy tax policy.

Health tax lessons from Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa

Examples from South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania show what works in health taxation.

Should health tax revenue be earmarked?

Overview of health tax earmarking, including best practices, pros and cons, and examples from the Philippines, Thailand and Ghana.

Industry narratives on health taxes — and what the evidence says

Short, evidence-backed responses to common industry arguments against health taxes, drawing on African and global experience, from Resolve to Save Lives

Catalytic implementation partnership: health taxes

Resolve to Save Lives partners with governments to support implementation of best-practice excise taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages

Health taxes

Resolve to Save Lives works with partners to implement health taxes that deliver healthier people, lower healthcare costs, and more government revenue for essential programs.

Resources

Lead poisoning prevention

Lead poisoning prevention

Resolve to Save Lives works with countries to eliminate lead exposure at the source by supporting evidence-based policies, building laboratory capacity, and partnering with WHO on global standards.
PREVENT technical package for lead poisoning prevention

PREVENT lead poisoning technical package: discussion paper

The WHO PREVENT technical package translates evidence into six prioritized actions to guide governments in efficiently reducing and eliminating lead poisoning as a public health threat.

Preventing lead poisoning

Fact sheet summarizing the burden of lead exposure and the World Health Organization’s PREVENT technical package on lead poisoning prevention.

Primary healthcare

Emergency-Ready Primary healthcare (ERPHC) Framework and Operational Guide

The ERPHC Framework and Operational Guide offers a practical approach to embedding preparedness, response and resilience within routine PHC systems.

Overview: Primary healthcare Questions for Surveys

A one-page overview of the PHCQS initiative, covering its objectives, development process, and current survey deployments across countries.

Epidemic-Ready Primary healthcare

RTSL’s ERPHC program equips primary healthcare facilities to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks while maintaining essential services.

Progress in epidemic-ready primary health: early pilot results from four African countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda), December 2023-October 2024

Epidemic-Ready Primary healthcare (ERPHC) framework and technical package

Capacities, core activities and outcomes for implementing Epidemic-Ready Primary healthcare (ERPHC).

Foundations for sustainable health: A blueprint for building epidemic-ready and climate-resilient primary healthcare

Our blueprint for strengthening primary healthcare infrastructure to withstand epidemic and climate threats.

How scaling up hypertension control can be a pathfinder for universal healthcare

Strengthening hypertension management and control will improve many aspects of primary care and contribute to goals for universal health coverage.
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Primary healthcare Questions for Surveys (PHCQS)

A core set of globally consistent indicators and survey questions to assess primary healthcare access and unmet needs.

About Resolve to Save Lives

Resolve to Save Lives accelerates action against the world’s deadliest health threats. 

We are a results-driven global health organization that collaborates locally and globally to build solutions that save millions of lives. 

We use technical, operational, and policy approaches to identify health threats that can be stopped, co-create and test simple solutions, and scale the best solutions worldwide. 

Contact us to discuss how we can work together.

In Kano State, Nigeria, community healthcare workers take patients' blood pressure measurements outdoors on a sunny day. - Resolve to Save Lives