World Health Organization

noun

1. WHO ( def ).

World Health Organization

noun

1. an agency of the United Nations, established in 1948 with headquarters in Geneva, responsible for coordinating international health activities, aiding governments in improving health services, etc WHO

World Health Organization

1. A specialized agency of the United Nations , established in 1948 and headquartered in Geneva , whose mission is to prevent the international spread of diseases, such as cholera , malaria , and poliomyelitis .

Example Sentences

Instead, it provides links to government and World Health Organization websites and shows data on how the virus is spreading at the top of results.

From Washington Post

World Health Organization, 7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution.

From Nautilus

A group of World Health Organization investigators will be traveling to China next month to further investigate the origins of the virus.

From Popular-Science

If it’s too cold to open all the windows, switch up which ones are open, says Lidia Morawska, a World Health Organization consultant and aerosol expert from Australia’s Queensland University of Technology.

From Time

After all, trying to solve this dilemma without mass testing is kind of like “fighting a fire blindfolded,” World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said back in March.

From Popular-Science

The campaign included a push for the World Health Organization to condemn gay-conversion therapy.

From The Daily Beast

The procedure, says a spokesperson from the World Health Organization, doesn't even make sense.

From The Daily Beast

The World Health Organization (WHO) puts the safe daily level at 25 micrograms.

From The Daily Beast

Actual cases of Ebola in Liberia, according the World Health Organization, are decreasing.

From The Daily Beast

On Tuesday, the World Health Organization projected that by December there could be 10,000 new cases per week in West Africa.

From The Daily Beast