| No images? Click here  12 September 2025 | Issue 321  © WHO / Yoshi Shimizu   15 to 19 September 2025 Second meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on the WHO Pandemic Agreement The second meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on the WHO Pandemic Agreement will be held from 15 to 19 September 2025. In May 2025, the World Health Assembly adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. It also established an open-ended IGWG to undertake several tasks, including drafting and negotiating an annex to the Agreement on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing system (PABS) to enable safe, transparent and accountable access and benefit-sharing for PABS materials and sequence information. Further information: here.  Wednesday, 17 September World Patient Safety Day 2025 Every child deserves safe, quality health care from birth. Yet millions of young children face risks due to their unique needs and unequal access to care. A single safety lapse can have lifelong effects. This World Patient Safety Day WHO highlights the theme: “Patient safety from the start!” — urging action to protect children aged 0–9. The campaign calls on families, health workers, educators, and communities to prevent harm and tailor care to each child. Further information: here.  Thursday, 18 September WHO data on noncommunicable diseases and mental health: progress, setbacks and the path forward - virtual press conference 14.00 CEST / 12.00 GMT, virtual In the lead-up to the Fourth High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing on 25 September, this virtual press conference will set the stage with two comprehensive new analyses: a new WHO “Saving lives, spending less: the global investment case for noncommunicable diseases” and freshly released Countdown 2030 data that benchmark country progress over the past two decades. WHO experts will unpack what these findings mean for policymakers and the public, what works, where progress is stalling, and why urgent investment is now a political and economic imperative. The “Saving lives, spending less: the global investment case for noncommunicable diseases” analysis and accompanying press release will be available to journalists under embargo on Tuesday, 16 September. To request an embargoed copy, please write to guerraja@who.int and media@who.int.  Stories of interest:
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