Collaborating centres

WHO collaborating centres

Over 800 institutions in over 80 countries supporting WHO programmes.

The WHO collaborating centres are institutions such as research institutes, parts of universities or academies, which are designated by the Director-General to carry out activities in support of the Organization's programmes. Currently there are over 800 WHO collaborating centres in over 80 Member States working with WHO on areas such as nursing, occupational health, communicable diseases, nutrition, mental health, chronic diseases and health technologies.

"In everything we do, WHO relies on the expertise of hundreds of formal WHO Collaborating Centres, in your countries, and thousands of the best brains in science, medicine, and public health, in your countries. They give us their time freely and it is my strong impression that they do so with pride."

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, address to the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly, 16 May 2011

The concept of WHO Collaborating Centres

Definition, history, functions and management.

Networks

Working together to coordinate activities, enhance capacity and benefit from a global perspective.

Case studies

Examples of what the WHO collaborating centres do.

Figures and statistics

By country, region or subject.

Database

The official list and source of information of the WHO collaborating centres.

Information for WHO Collaborating Centres

Administrative and legal information for existing WHO collaborating centres.

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NEWS

On 17/Nov/2011 the Centro Nacional de Genetica Medica, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Medicas, La Habana, Cuba has been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for the Development of Genetic Approaches for Health Promotion. More information

On 1/Dec/2011 theMailman School of Public Health, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA has been designated as a WHO Collaborating Center for Bioethics. More information

On 16/Dec/2011 the Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID), Arboviral Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases (NCZVED), Fort Collins, USA has been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Arthropod-Borne Viruses Reference and Research. More information