International Health Regulations Coordination WHO Lyon Office
The WHO Lyon Office is part of the IHR Coordination Department within the Health Security and Environment cluster at WHO Headquarters in Geneva Switzerland.
The mission of the Office is to, in collaboration with the WHO Regional and Country Offices, assist countries to strengthen their national surveillance and response systems to better detect, assess, notify events and respond to public health risks emergencies of international concern under the
International Health Regulations (2005) or "IHR (2005)".
ACTIVITIES
Our activities focus on strengthening national core public health capacities for disease surveillance and response through the following project areas and initiatives:
- Health Laboratory Strengthening
- Ports, airports and ground crossings
- Epidemiological surveillance
- Training and education in relation to global public health security and the IHR (2005)
GCR activity reports
CONTACT US
WHO Lyon Office
58, avenue Debourg
F-69007 Lyon
France
E-mail: ihrinfo@who.int
IHR Lyon office
Highlights
- Guide to hygiene and sanitation in aviation (third edition)
- Guide to ship sanitation (third edition)
- IHR key publications
- COMBI: A toolkit for behavioural and social communication in outbreak response
- COMBI: Field Workbook for COMBI planning steps in outbreak response
- Laboratory Assessment Tool
- International travel and health
- Biosafety and laboratory security
- Training toolkit: Laboratory quality management system
- Biostatistics: New CD-ROM for self learning
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IHR implementation at ports, airports and ground crossings
Video - E-library: Knowledge, training and resources to support IHR implementation