Safe and Scalable Care

The Safe and Scalable Care Unit’s work begins with infection prevention, optimising clinical care and health operations and advancing clinical research and innovation in order to help bring life-saving interventions to the last mile.

World Pneumonia Day, November 12

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Technical areas

Research into optimizing respiratory support for critically ill patients

The delivery of patient centred, individualized critical care to reduce the case fatality of EVD through key interventions.

Infection prevention and control during health emergencies

The WHO Global Clinical Platform is a secure web-based database including individual-level, anonymized clinical data of patients from health facilities across the globe.

Publications, guidelines

Meeting reports

As there is currently no effective antiviral treatment for mpox, optimizing the outcomes for patients relies completely on provision of high-quality, standardized...

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The meeting provided the opportunity to host a group of global experts in filovirus disease (FVD) management, outbreak response and clinical and operational...