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Our primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations system. Our main areas of work are health systems; health through the life-course; noncommunicable and communicable diseases; preparedness, surveillance and response; and corporate services.Activities by WHO
Global Initiative on Artificial Intelligence for Health (GI-AI4H)
GlobalA collaborative project by ITU, WHO, and WIPO to harness AI for global health improvement. It aims to develop international standards and policies for the ethical and responsible use of AI in healthcare, promote knowledge sharing, and support countries in implementing AI programs.
Activity Type Policy/Regulatory GuidanceTechnical assistanceInfrastructure/Systems DevelopmentNetworks/Mentorship/ExchangeINFORM-Warning
Global Not ApplicableINFORM is a multi-stakeholder forum for developing shared, quantitative analysis relevant to humanitarian crises and disasters. INFORM is developing a suite of quantitative, analytical products to support decision-making at different stages of the crisis management cycle. INFORM-Warning seeks to make a contribution to the better use of data to anticipate, prevent, and respond to climate and complex risks in fragile and crisis-affected settings. The objective of INFORM-Warning is to present reliable, quantified, multi- hazard information that warns about risk trends, forecasts, scenarios and events that could lead to crisis impacts in the next 12 months and can be easily used to support decisions on preparedness and anticipatory action. The INFORM Warning system will be unique as an open-source aggregator of existing early warning data sources that simplifies and interprets quantitative data to understand early warning trends.
Activity Type AI Tools/SolutionsResearch/Reports/AssessmentsPulseSatellite: A collaboration tool using human-AI interaction to analyse satellite imagery
Africa, Asia and the Pacific BangladeshSomaliaPulseSatellite is a collaborative satellite image analysis tool that leverages neural network models that can be retrained on-the-fly and adapted to specific humanitarian contexts and geographies. The tool has models for mapping structures in refugee settlements, roof density detection, and flood mapping.
Activity Type AI Tools/SolutionsResearch/Reports/AssessmentsFocus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H)
GlobalThis project, a collaboration between ITU and WHO, worked towards a framework and processes for benchmarking AI for Health algorithms. It addressed over 20 topic areas and culminated in a whitepaper and a peer-reviewed article in The Lancet. This initiative closed in 2023 and is continued under a new platform.
Activity Type Research/Reports/AssessmentsPolicy/Regulatory GuidanceNetworks/Mentorship/Exchange