WHO Academy Status

WHOAcademy provides health workers everywhere with an efficient way to access the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 knowledge resources all in one place, including up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, self-paced learning, and virtual workshops to support health workers in caring for patients infected by COVID-19 – as well on how they can protect themselves as they do their critical work.  With content in six languages – Arabic Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish – WHOAcademy is a convenient tool for accessing WHO’s rapidly expanding and evolving training materials and guidance, along with opportunities to participate in virtual skills workshops and other live training. • Research & Development: Working towards a treatment and a vaccine.  Health workers need accurate, extensive, reliable, and timely information on COVID-19 to save lives and stay safe.  It also includes updated news and statistics on the COVID-19 pandemic.  WHOAcademy is brought to you by the WHO Academy, a new internal division of WHO.  The Academy will be officially launched in May 2021 as the WHO’s state-of-the-art lifelong learning centre, applying the latest technologies and adult learning science to meet the learning needs of millions of health workers, policymakers, and WHO staff around the world.