WHO Collaborating centres
Collaborating centres are national institutions that have been designated by the Director-General to form part of an inter-institutional collaborative network set up by WHO and which cooperate with WHO programmes at national, regional and global levels. They play an important role in the development of WHO’s programmes, in particular, its research and training component.
List of countries
Australia (3 centres)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention
Global Obesity Centre at the Centre for Population Health Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria
Date of Designation: 5 November 2003
Last Redesignation: 4 April 2020
Expiry: 4 April 2024
WHO Collaborating Centre on Population Salt Reduction
The Food Policy Division, The George Institute for Global Health, Syndey
Date of Designation: 22 April 2013
Last Redesignation: 22 April 2021
Expiry: 22 April 2025
WHO Collaborating Centre on Anaemia Detection and Control
Division of Population Health and Immunity, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria
Date of Designation: 22 September 2020
Last Redesignation: 22 September 2020
Expiry: 22 September 2024
Canada (2 centres)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition Policy for Chronic Disease PreventionDepartment of Nutritional Sciences (DNS), University of Toronto, Toronto
Date of Designation: 17 November 2015
Last Redesignation: 17 November 2019
Expiry: 17 November 2023
WHO Collaborating Centre on Nutrition Changes and DevelopmentDepartment of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal
Date of Designation: 25 January 2019
Last Redesignation: 25 January 2023
Expiry: 25 January 2027
China (2 centres)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Risk Analysis of Chemicals in FoodCentre for Food Safety, Food and Environment Hygiene Department, Hongkong SAR
Date of Designation: 22 October 2010
Last Redesignation: 22 October 2022
Expiry: 22 October 2026
WHO Collaborating Centre for Food Contamination MonitoringChina National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA), Beijing
Date of Designation: 1 April 1981
Last Redesignation: 14 June 2020
Expiry: 14 June 2024
Fiji
WHO Collaborating Centre on Obesity Prevention and ManagementCentre for the Prevention of Obesity and Non-Communicable
Diseases (C-POND), School of Public Health and Primary Care, Fiji National University; Suva
Date of Designation: 13 September 2019
Last Redesignation: 13 September 2019
Expiry: 13 September 2023
France (2 centres)
WHO Collaborating Centre ListeriaBiology of Infection Unit, Department of Cell Biology and Infection, Institut
Pasteur, Paris Cedex 15
Date of Designation; 1 November 2011
Last Redesignation: 1 November 2019
Expiry: 1 November 2023
WHO Collaborating Centre for SalmonellaUnité de Recherche et d'Expertise des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Institut
Pasteur, Paris Cedex 15
Date of Designation: 3 December 2018
Last Redesignation: 3 December 2022
Expiry: 3 December 2026
Germany
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Nutrition and Physical Activity
Division of Biometry and data
management, Institute for Epidemiology and Prevention Research - BIPS, Bremen
Date of Designation: 30 September 2016
Last Redesignation: 30 September 2020
Expiry: 30 September 2024
Greece
WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition and Health
Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health Nutrition,
Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens
Date of Designation: 25 September 2020
Last Redesignation: 25 September 2020
Expiry: 25 September 2024
Iran (Islamic Republic)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Nutrition and Food TechnologyFaculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, National
Nutrition & Food Technology Research Institute (NNFTRI), Tehran
Date of Designation: 1 September 2016
Last Redesignation: 1 September 2020
Expiry: 1 September 2024
Italy
WHO Collaborating Centre on Childhood ObesityNational Centre for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Istituto
Superiore di Sanità, Rome
Date of Designation: 28 August 2020
Last Redesignation: 28 August 2020
Expiry: 28 August 2024
Japan
WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition and Physical ActivityUnit for International Collaboration on Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Tokyo
Date of Designation: 19 March 2014
Last Redesignation: 19 March 2022
Expiry: 19 March 2026
Lebanon
WHO Collaborating Center for Metabolic Bone DisordersAmerican University of Beirut, American University in Beirut, Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program, Beirut
Date of Designation: 17 September 2020
Last Redesignation: 17 September 2020
Expiry: 17 September 2024
Netherlands (4 centres)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition
Division of Nutrition and Health, National Insitute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bithoven
Date of Designation: 9 September 2008
Last Redesignation: 9 September 2022
Expiry: 9 September 2026
WHO Collaborating Centre for Risk Assessment of Pathogens in Food and Water Laboratory for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Insitute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven
Date of Designation: 1 April 1977
Last Redesignation: 14 July 2022
Expiry: 14 July 2026
WHO Collaborating Centre on Chemical Food Safety Food safety department, Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services (VPZ), National Insitute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven
Date of Designation: 30 May 2013
Last Redesignation: 30 May 2020
Expiry: 30 May 2023
WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Campylobacter and Antimicrobial Resistance from a One Health PerspectiveDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht
Date of Designation: 22 August 2006
Last Redesignation: 1 September 2020
Expiry: 1 September 2023
Portugal
WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition and Childhood ObesityFood and Nutrition Department, National Institute of
Health Dr Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon
Date of Designation: 21 July 2015
Last Redesignation: 21 July 2019
Expiry: 21 July 2023
Singapore
WHO Collaborating Centre for Food Contamination MonitoringDepartment of Food Safety Monitoring and Forensics, National Centre for Food Science, Singapore Food Agency, Singapore
Date of Designation: 22 July 1992
Last Redesignation: 29 September 2020
Expiry: 20 September 2024
Thailand
WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Nutrition and Food SafetyInstitute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom
Date of Designation: 14 September 2017
Last
Redesignation: 14 September 2021
Expiry: 14 September 2023
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutritional EpidemiologyNutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and
Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds
Date of Designation: 17 October 2018
Last Redesignation: 17 October 2022
Expiry: 17 October 2026
Uruguay
WHO Collaborating Center for Food AnalysisCoordinacion de Calidad, Laboratorio Tecnologico del Uruguay (LATU), Montevideo
Date of Designation: 15 January 2020
Last Redesignation: 15 January 2020
Expiry: 15 January 2024
United States of America
WHO Collaborating Centre on Nutrition Research for Health Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca
Date of Designation: 7 February 2022
Last Redesignation: 7 February 2022
Expiry: 7 February 2026
WHO Collaborating Centre for Global One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance Initiatives Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Date of Designation: 18 November 2019
Last Redesignation: 18 November 2019
Expiry: 18 November 2023