World Health Organization Western Pacific Region

31/10/2025

Watch out for low-flying bats this and keep safe on the road!

tips:

✅Stay within the speed limit.
✅Wear helmets and seatbelts.
✅Stay focused.
❌No distracted driving.
❌Do not drink and drive.

31/10/2025

Spanning the Pacific’s diversity – Micronesia 🌊, Melanesia 🌋 and Polynesia 🌺 – the vision is a shared commitment of all Pacific peoples.

Health leaders from across the Pacific gathered in Fiji to celebrate 30 years since the Healthy Islands vision was first endorsed on Yanuca Island.

From humble beginnings in 1995, this vision has guided how Pacific countries build healthier environments, resilient systems, and strong communities.

💬 “Healthy Islands 2050 is not just about health – it’s a holistic approach and call to action for sustainable development with health at its core. WHO looks forward to continuing its support in the Pacific through our 8 offices scattered across the Blue Pacific Continent,” said Dr Mark Jacobs, WHO Representative to the South Pacific and Director of Pacific Technical Support.





📸© WHO / Deanna Gerlach

31/10/2025

We celebrate a major milestone for public health in Fiji – the opening of the newly renovated Food, Water, and Leptospirosis Laboratory at the Fiji Centre for Disease Control (CDC)! 🧪💧

This upgraded facility was supported through a climate-health adaptation project generously funded by the KOICA Fiji Office 코이카 피지 사무소 🇰🇷🤝🇫🇯

Through KOICA’s support, Fiji CDC has been able to strengthen testing and disease surveillance capacity by:
✅ Renovating and modernizing its laboratory infrastructure
✅ Procuring essential equipment
✅ Training laboratory staff at the Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie and the The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne, Australia.

These advancements are crucial as increasingly affects food and water safety across the Pacific. Strong laboratory systems mean Fiji can detect and respond to climate-sensitive diseases – such as diarrhoeal illnesses and leptospirosis – faster and more effectively. 🌦️

With testing capacity for up to 3,000 food and water samples per year, and a newly digitized National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, Fiji is taking major strides in building a more climate-resilient health system – one that protects communities from increasing health threats. 💪🌏

👏 Congratulations to the Fiji CDC team, Ministry of Health & Medical Services - Fiji, KOICA, and all partners involved for this important step forward in safeguarding the health and wellbeing of communities across .

Learn more through the link below. ⬇

📸 © WHO / Nancy Wong, and Shuttershots

30/10/2025

4 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every minute.

can have a variety of symptoms, especially when more advanced.

Early diagnosis increases the chances for successful treatment.

30/10/2025

🌏 Partnerships in action!

Next week, over 190 experts from 116 WHO Collaborating Centres across the Western Pacific will gather in Manila for the Fifth Forum of WHO Collaborating Centres.

Under the theme “Interweaving Innovation and Unity”, participants will explore new ways to translate research, innovation, and collaboration into tangible health impact for 2.2 billion people in our Region.

🤝 Together, we’re weaving stronger networks for a healthier, safer, and fairer Western Pacific.

📍 Manila, Philippines
📅 4–5 November 2025

29/10/2025

Today is .

what a stroke is? Your loved ones knowing the signs and risk factors of a can save lives.

‍👩🏽‍⚕️ Talk to your health care provider about your risk of stroke, including factors like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

29/10/2025

Alcohol leaves marks you can’t always see — on health, families and futures. Watch how one drink ripples into many harms.




Learn more in our news release linked below 👇

29/10/2025

Health workers are excited that the Pacific Open Learning Health Net (POLHN) is back online.

POLHN has now been re-established through a collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific and the WHO Academy.

The revitalized POLHN will feature a dedicated learning space on the recently launched WHO Academy online learning platform, with courses tailored to the unique needs of Pacific health-care workers.

Learn more in our news release below 👇

28/10/2025

What looked like ‘just a drink’ became fear behind closed doors. Alcohol can escalate violence at home. It’s time to talk – and act.




Learn more via the link below 👇

28/10/2025

From ensuring climate change resilience to oral health, health impacts every corner of life.

WHO continues to work, and will continue to work, with Member States and our partners in the Western Pacific with an eye on the true prize: .

Thank you to the Government of Fiji for hosting this year’s seventy-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific . See you next year at in Manila, Philippines!

Fiji Government
Ministry of Health & Medical Services - Fiji

27/10/2025