Launch of the WHO Academy and the WHO Info mobile applications

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Geneva, New Delhi, May 17, 2020 :

WHO announces the launch of the WHO Academy app designed to support health workers during COVID-19, and the WHO Info app designed to inform the general public. The WHO Academy, World Health Organization’s lifelong learning centre, launched a mobile app designed to enable health workers to expand their life-saving skills to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

The app provides health workers with mobile access to a wealth of COVID-19 knowledge resources, developed by WHO, that include up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, and virtual workshops that will help them care for COVID-19 patients and protect themselves.

“With this new mobile app, the WHO is putting the power of learning and knowledge-sharing directly into the hands of health workers everywhere,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.

The app is built around the needs expressed by 20,000 global health workers in a WHO Academy survey conducted in March of 2020.

The survey found that two-thirds of respondents feel they need to be more prepared, particularly in infection prevention and control, case management, use of personal protective equipment and occupational safety, and risk communication and community engagement. An overwhelming majority of respondents said virtual learning on demand would be helpful in preparing for COVID-19 challenges.

The establishment of the WHO Academy, based in Lyon, France, is planned for launch in May 2021. The state-of-the-art lifelong learning centre, will apply the latest technologies and adult learning science to meet the learning needs of millions of health workers, policy makers, and WHO staff around the world.

A new World Health Organization (WHO) mobile app provides vital information to health workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic, delivering critical and timely knowledge resources in six languages- Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish- directly to the health workers’ mobile phones and tablets.

It includes up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, and virtual workshops, as well as crucial information on how they can protect themselves as they do their critical work. The app’s design takes into account the results of a WHO Academy online survey conducted in March of nearly 20,000 health workers in 17 languages.

With this new mobile app, the WHO is putting the power of learning and knowledge-sharing directly into the hands of health workers everywhere.

The establishment of the WHO Academy as an internal Division of WHO based in Lyon, France is planned to 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, policy makers and WHO staff around the world.