"Violence against women – both physical and sexual – is a gross violation of human rights. As we continue to hear so many #MeToo stories, it’s time for #YouToo to do your part"
Ian AskewWHO Director, Department of Reproductive Health and Research
"Today, we have more knowledge, evidence, and understanding than ever before about how and through what pathways climate and environmental change impact health."
Maria Neira, Michaela Pfeiffer, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Annette Prüss-Ustün; WHO Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
"Globally, nearly 1/3 of people suffer from as a result of malnutrition: wasting, stunting, vitamin and mineral deficiency, overweight or obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases."
Dr Francesco Branca, WHO Director, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development
"Changing the NCD paradigm is essential. No longer can NCDs—and health in general—be seen as a matter of only stocking hospitals with medicines and training health-care workers."
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, Dr Tabaré Ramón Vázquez, President of Uruguay
"China's support is an example of the solidarity the world needs to deal with crises. It is a demonstration of the strong commitment to global health that China has been making for years."
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General
"To reduce the gender gap and add up to US$ 6 trillion to the global economy by 2025, nations must eliminate gender biases and inequities for women at work, including in the health labour market.
Jim Campbell, Director, WHO Health Workforce Department
"Discrimination runs counter to global commitments to reach universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals."
Jim Campbell, Director, WHO Health Workforce Department; Gottfried Hirnschall, Director, WHO Department of HIV and Global Hepatitis Programme; Veronica Magar, Team leader, WHO Gender, Equity and Human Rights Mainstreaming Team
"Controlling vectors is a constant challenge, and both old and emerging diseases are exposing new threats."
Pedro Alonso, Director, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Dirk Engels, Director, WHO Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), and John Reeder, Director, TDR, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
"Tobacco use hits the poorest people the hardest and exacerbates poverty. Spending on tobacco products often represents more than 10% of total household income."
"There is a need to leverage existing actions designed to address one type of malnutrition to simultaneously reduce other types."
Francesco Branca and Alessandro R Demaio, WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, and
Corinna Hawkes, Centre for Food Policy, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London
"Vaccines are available but myths around them discourage parents from immunizing their children. We need to bust myths and promote the benefits of immunization more widely. #VaccinesWork"
Dr Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director-General of WHO and Vice-Chair of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance
"In the past two years, we have seen global political momentum for addressing antimicrobial resistance."
Dr Hajime Inoue, Senior Advisor to the Director-General and Special Representative for Antimicrobial Resistance and Dr Ren Minghui, Assistant Director-General for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases
"Immunization is a cornerstone of global health security in an interconnected world where diseases do not respect national borders."
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Chris Elias, President of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Anthony Fauci, Director of the US National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF, Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
"We now know that the single greatest environmental risk to human health is through our most basic need – the air that we breathe."
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of World Meteorological Organization and Erik Solheim, Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme