Related areas to genomics within WHO
As an international public health body, WHO strives to address various global health concerns ranging from mental health to infectious diseases. HGN recognises the importance of collaborating with other departments and the value added to the scope and reach of programme activities. Genomics issues are relevant to a number of internal WHO departments, that range from teams working on common diseases, mental health concerns, surveillance of health issues and epidemiology to environmental pollution, food safety and reproductive health etc.
For more information on WHO activities related to genomics we encourage you to visit the individual web sites.
- Basic and Strategic Research (STR)
- Cancer (PCC)
- Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD)
- Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRA)
- Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)
- Diabetes (DIA)
- Disability and Rehabilitation Team (DAR)
- Environmental Burden of Disease (EBD)
- Ethics and Health Unit (ETH)
- Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy (EDM)
- Evidence and Information for Policy (EIP)
- Essential Health Technologies (EHT)
- Food Safety (FOS)
- Gender and Women's Health (GWH)
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
- Noncommunicable Disease Surveillance(CCS)
- Observatory on Health Care for Chronic Conditions (CCH)
- Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH)
- Product Research and Development (PRD)
- Protection of Human Environments (PHE)
- Radiation and Environmental Health (RAD)
- Reproductive Health and Research (RHR)
- Research Policy and Cooperation (RPC)
- Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)
- Surveillance and Response (CSR)
- Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
- Traditional Medicines (TDM)
- Vaccines and Biologicals (IVR)