WHO’s work in health emergencies must be defended, strengthened, and sustainably financed. Its coordination of health clusters, support to ministries of health, documentation of attacks on health care, and delivery of essential services remain indispensable.

Yet emergencies cannot be reduced to detection, grading, and response. War, occupation, forced displacement, climate breakdown, austerity, debt, weakened public systems, and unequal access to health technologies are producing avoidable crises.

We call on Member States to reject the normalization of humanitarian rationing, protect health care in conflict, replenish WHO’s emergency funds, and move from health security to health solidarity.

Emergency preparedness must mean peace, public health systems, climate justice, social protection, community participation, and equitable access for all.