WHO Regions for Health Network - RHN

18/09/2026

🎙️ New episode of Health Reality Check: "Who Really Keeps Us Healthy?"

Is staying healthy just about making the right choices,
or are those choices shaped long before we make them?

In the latest episode of WHO/Europe's podcast series, host Dr Margarida Santos is joined by Gundo Weiler (former Director of Prevention and Health Promotion, WHO/Europe) and Allison Ekberg (Technical Officer for NCDs, WHO/Europe) to unpack how our environments quietly shape our health long before we ever "choose."

For anyone working on healthy cities, prevention and health promotion, this conversation traces the journey from the Ottawa Charter to today's Healthy Cities movement, and asks what governments, communities and individuals can each do to make the healthy choice the easy choice.

🎧 Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyj9e-_OLHI

New episodes drop every two weeks — subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube to stay tuned, and feel free to share this one with your networks, partners or local decision-makers as a conversation starter.

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30/07/2026

📺BUILDING THRIVING, EQUITABLE REGIONAL HEALTH ECONOMIES in practice | July 22nd, 2026

Watch the new RHN-HCN webinar delivered in partnership with the South West Wales (SWW) Regional Health Economy (RHE) group!

This one-hour international learning webinar is delivered in partne...

17/07/2026

🌍 Building thriving, EQUITABLE REGIONAL HEALTH ECONOMIES in PRACTICE!

📅 Date:22 July 2026
🕓 Time: 16:00–17:00 CET (15:00–16:00 GMT)

Health and wellbeing outcomes across regions are shaped by complex social, economic and system-level factors — including inequalities that are often hidden but deeply rooted.

❓ HOW ARE REGIONS AND CITIES RESPONDING?

Join this one-hour international learning webinar, delivered in partnership between the WHO European Regions for Health Network (RHN) and the South West Wales Regional Health Economy (RHE) group. Speakers from across regions will share case studies and transferable learning on building sustainable, equitable regional health and well-being economies.

This event is part of the WHO Europe/Wales Special Initiative on Health and the Well-being Economy, aligning population well-being with economic and financial decision-making across sectors and borders.

💻 Join via Microsoft Teams

Meeting ID: 350 302 300 470 573
Passcode: Hc7CP9Fi

We look forward to welcoming regional authorities, researchers and practitioners to this important dialogue!

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30/06/2026

📣Alcohol policy is cancer prevention policy.

New WHO study estimates that major alcohol control policies could prevent thousands of cancer cases every year. 🎗️

🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3R45ehJ

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26/06/2026

🇮🇹 HEALTHY AGEING as a test of system performance

Lessons from Italy’s performance assessment conference in Venice

Regional leadership, innovation and integrated care took centre stage at a conference in Venice on 22 June 2026, presenting the latest results of Italy’s System for Evaluating the Performance of Regional Health Systems.

Hosted by the Veneto Region and the Scuola superiore Sant'Anna’s Laboratory of Management and Health, the event brought together policy-makers, researchers and health system leaders to reflect on how regions can strengthen health services and improve outcomes for their populations.

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Regional leadership, innovation and integrated care took centre stage at a conference in Venice on 22 June 2026, presenting the latest results of Italy’s System for Evaluating the Performance of Regional Health Systems. Hosted by the Veneto Region and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna’s Laborator...

16/06/2026

🌦️💨🌪️HEALTHY CLIMATE-RESILIENT COMMUNITIES | Heat, pollution and health protection in Regions and Cities

The recording of the latest RHN and Healthy Cities Network webinar is online!

This event has been jointly organised by the Flanders region.

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22/04/2026

📺 “APPLYING ONE HEALTH APPROACHES IN REGIONS”: the recording is now online!

On April 1st, we hosted the webinar “Applying One Health Approaches in Regions”, organized by the RHN in collaboration with the WHO European Healthy Cities Network (HCN).

Regions and cities sit at the critical intersection between global frameworks and local realities. They are uniquely positioned to translate vision into action—bridging public health, environmental management, agriculture, and urban planning. Yet operationalizing One Health remains a real challenge. Governance structures, workforce capacity, and cross-sectoral monitoring systems often struggle to keep pace with policy ambitions.

This webinar was designed to help close that gap.

In the recording, you’ll find:
📍 Practical tools to turn One Health principles into action at regional and city level
📍 Real-world examples of successful multisectoral collaboration
📍 Insights to support evidence-based decision-making
📍 Strategies to strengthen coordination across sectors

If you’re working at the regional or local level and looking to move from principles to practice, this is for you.

Watch the recording here:

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29/01/2026

🇮🇹🤝🌍 WHO/Europe and Italy strengthen their partnership on health systems of the future.

09/12/2025

Thanks for hosting our 30th Annual Meeting in St. Polten!

03/12/2025

📢 New report out now!
We are pleased to share the newly released report on the Small Countries Initiative (SCI) — a unique collaborative platform bringing together 12 Member States in the WHO European Region with populations under two million.

📘 Covering the period 2021–2024, the report captures the Initiative’s progress through high-level meetings and the implementation of the European Programme of Work and the Roadmap towards better health in small countries (2022–2025).
Over these years, the SCI has acted as an initiator, catalyst, convener and connector — raising awareness, building partnerships and driving action on key health priorities.

🌍 It has amplified the visibility of small countries’ needs and innovations at regional and international level, while supporting context-specific solutions to strengthen health systems and improve population health.

💡 As a true laboratory for innovation, the SCI has fostered cross-country learning, knowledge exchange and collaborative problem-solving — helping countries address shared challenges through mutual support.

🔎 The report highlights the Initiative’s unique role in giving voice to small countries, advancing health equity and promoting innovative approaches to public health. It confirms the SCI’s enduring relevance as a model of regional cooperation and a driver of transformative change.

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