MEDIA ADVISORY: Embargoed virtual press conference on the WHO/UNICEF estimates on national child immunization coverage, Tuesday, 14 July, 14:00 CEST

No images? Click here Friday, 10 July 2026 MEDIA ADVISORY  Embargoed virtual press conference on the WHO/UNICEF estimates on national child immunization coverage   When: Tuesday, 14 July 2026 at 12.00 GMT/14.00 CEST   What: WHO and UNICEF are gearing up to release the latest Estimates of National Immunization Coverage (WUENIC) – the world’s largest dataset on childhood immunization coverage trends for 13 vaccine-preventable diseases across 195 countries.   This embargoed press briefing, held one day before the public launch, will provide early access to the data. Experts from WHO and UNICEF will explain how countries are progressing in reaching every child with life-saving vaccines and advancing the targets of the Immunization Agenda 2030. The dataset offers a critical assessment of global immunization progress, highlighting where coverage has stalled or declined, as well as where countries have made significant gains.  For an advance copy of the data, please reach out to mediainquiries@who.int and salhattab@unicef.org.  All data are embargoed until 00.01 GMT / 02.01 CEST on 15 July 2026.   Speakers:  Dr Ephrem T Lemango, Associate Director for Health, and Global Chief of Immunization, UNICEF   Dr Kate O’Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, WHO   Join by Zoom:  Link: https://who.zoom.us/j/92646676722   Password: 14&WUENIC Join by Phone: International numbers available: https://who.zoom.us/u/acWuxSufW0 Webinar ID: 926 4667 6722 Password: 040611240 Notes to journalists Please ensure you enter your name and media outlet (use name/outlet). Kindly note, only questions from media (one per journalist) are allowed. When you sign in you will be automatically put in the meeting room.  WHO reserves the right to remove any participant whose behaviour causes any disruption.  To ask a question, please click "raise hand" and this will enter you into the queue for questions. (It can be found under the tab: participants.)   Please make sure you have a microphone connected or active on your computer. Do not ask questions via the chat as we cannot guarantee that we will can incorporate them into the q&a session.   For translation during the VPC, choices are under "interpretation" or "language interpretation" depending on which version of Zoom you use.  Due to the volume of questions, we are no longer able to take them from phone callers and interpretation is not available via telephone.  Media contacts: WHO: mediainquiries@who.int UNICEF: Sara Alhattab, Tel: +1 917 957 6536,  salhattab@unicef.org       You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Journalists may send feedback to WHO Media Team       Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe