2 December 2025, Sakhir, Bahrain – On 19 November 2025, WHO conducted a 1-day mission to evaluate the University of Bahrain (UOB) as a health-promoting university. The health-promoting university programme is an extension of the healthy-settings approach to health promotion. It recognizes that, as the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion states,...

30 November 2025, Manama, Bahrain – The World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Bahrain conducted a 3-day training – from 18–20 November 2025 – on the Mental health gap action programme (mhGAP). Mental health gap action programme training participants. Photo credit: WHO/WHO Bahrain Mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders...

25 November 2025, Manama, Bahrain – The World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a 2-day mission ­– 17–18 November 2025 – to Bahrain’s Southern Governorate as part of its evaluation as a healthy governorate. The evaluation was conducted by the WHO Country Office in Bahrain, the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and WHO...

17 November 2025, Manama, Bahrain – To support the Ministry of Health, between 10 and 12 November, the World Health Organization (WHO) facilitated a 3-day simulation exercise for health security preparedness capacities. Participants during the simulation exercises. Photo credit: WHO/WHO Bahrain Ensuring readiness to detect, assess and respond to...

Ministers of health and senior delegates from the Region’s 22 Member States attended the Seventy-second session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean. Photo credit: ©WHO23 October 2025, Cairo, Egypt – The Seventy-second session of the Regional Committee (RC72) for the Eastern Mediterranean was held from 15 to 17 October 2025 in...

Participants from the National Health Survey Committee and experts from the Ministry of Health and iGA at the workshop. Photo credit: WHO/WHO Bahrain8 July 2025, Isa Town, Bahrain – The World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Health and the Information and eGovernment Authority (iGA) conducted a workshop at the iGA premises in Isa Town,...

Bahrain's Minister of Health Dr Jaleela bint Alsayed Jawad Hasan and WHO’s Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Photo credit: WHO/Pierre Albouy27 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78), held from 19 to 27 May 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland under the theme One World for Health, reaffirmed WHO’s commitment...

WHO Representative in Bahrain Dr Assad Hafeez signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of the Royal University for Women Professor Riyad Hamzah. Photo credit: WHO/WHO Bahrain.29 April 2025, Riffa, Bahrain – The World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Bahrain has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Royal...

5 March 2025, Saar, Bahrain – WHO conducted a 1-day mission to evaluate University College of Bahrain (UCB) as a health-promoting university. Health-promoting universities are an extension of the settings-based approach to health promotion which recognizes that universities have the potential to improve the health of the population by integrating health...

Governor of Muharraq Governorate HE Salman bin Isa Al Mannai, Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Dr Samya Bahram, WHO Regional Adviser for Health Promotion and Social Determinants of Health Dr Samar El Feky and the team at the Muharraq Governorate Office. Photo credit: WHO/WHO Bahrain.25 February 2025, Muharraq, Bahrain – WHO conducted a...