WORLD HEALTH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATES

WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE OF THE

WORLD HEALTH EDITORS NETWORK - WHEN

The World Health Editors Network, WHEN, is an international, inter-professional exchange and action platform  dedicated to exploring and strengthening communications as a positive determinant of health.

Through participation in  events, editors get early access to global health news and experts and importantly, key  international health agency agenda-setting intelligence.

WHEN development is being facilitated by the World Health Professional Alliance and its constituent association  members, including the International Council of Nurses (ICN), the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the  FDI World Dental Federation, and the World Medical Association (WMA). The World Health Communication Associates  (WHCA) serve as secretariat to WHEN.

To download the WHEN brochure as a PDF, click here.

Interested in joining WHEN? Please contact when@whcaonline.org or any of the Steering Group:

WHEN Advisory Board

WHEN Advisory Board is made up of editors of dental, pharmaceutical, nursing and medical journals who have been nominated for inclusion by FDI, FIP, ICN and WMA respectively. Efforts are made to balance membership between disciplines and to include editors from all regions. The Advisory Board functions to provide guidance to the Steering Group on priority issues and other WHEN activities, including conference scheduling, focal topics and potential collaborative opportunities.

WHEN Advisory Group available here 
  

WHEN News

For news of forthcoming meetings, focal topics, and proposed WHEN Guide to the World Health Assembly 2008, click here.

WHEN Development Meeting

Held in London in August 2007, WHCA organised this meeting to discuss the development of the World Health Editor's Network. The minutes of the meeting are available click here.

WHEN Meeting Documents

Documents from the following meetings are available:                                                       Scoping Meeting, Geneva, March 2006 
                                               click here  
Development Meeting, Geneva, May 2006 
                                               click here
Vienna, June 2007   click here

WHEN Briefing Packages

The following briefing packages are available:   

Briefing #1: World AIDS Day 2006 click here   Contents:
1. Addressing the “hidden HIV epidemic” – Do the new CDC (Atlanta) testing guidelines mean an end to AIDS exceptionalism?
2. Making AIDS everybody’s business: new GTZ report describes how “AIDS mainstreaming” is key step towards achieving universal access

Briefing #2: World Health Day 2007                 Contents:
1. Climate Change and Health(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 6 April 2007) click here
2. Health Security (World Health Day, 7 April 2007) click here