Global Influenza Programme
We provide Member States with strategic guidance, technical support and coordination of activities essential to make their health systems better prepared against seasonal, zoonotic and pandemic influenza threats to populations and individuals.

Public Health and Social Measures (PHSM)

Technical consultation on public health and social measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza to update the 2019 WHO guidance

In the early stages of an influenza pandemic, public health and social measures (PHSM) represent the only readily available non-medical countermeasures...

Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza

Influenza pandemics occur at unpredictable intervals, and cause considerable morbidity and mortality. Influenza virus is readily transmissible from person...