The International Sanitary Conferences (ISC), the first of which was held on 23 June 1851, were a series of conferences that took place until 1938, about 87 years. The first conference, in Paris, was almost solely conc… See more

The WHO's Constitution states that its objective "is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health".
The WHO fulfils this objective through its functions as defined in its Constitution:
• To … See more

The World Health Organization is a member of the United Nations Development Group.
As of January 2021 , the WHO has 194 member states: all member states of the United Nati… See more

The seat of the organization is in Geneva, Switzerland. It was designed by Swiss architect Jean Tschumi and inaugurated in 1966. In 2017, the organization launched an international competition to redesign and extend its h… See more

In 2024 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was the organization's major private contributor, funding 10% of its budget. See more