Global Outbreak
What respiratory virus, first identified in late 2019, caused a global pandemic that reshaped modern public health?
What is SARS-CoV-2 (or COVID-19)
The WHO defines Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as ensuring all people access health services without experiencing what kind of hardship?
What is financial hardship (or financial ruin)?
The World Health Organization (WHO) is headquartered in which neutral European city?
What is Geneva, Switzerland?
First discovered accidentally by Alexander Fleming in 1928, what was the world's first mass-produced antibiotic?
What is Penicillin?
What color ribbon is universally worn to raise awareness and express support for people living with HIV/AIDS?
What is a Red Ribbon?
What mosquito-borne virus, named after a forest in Uganda, caused a major public health emergency in the Americas in 2015–2016?
What is Zika Virus
According to UNICEF, roughly 2 billion people worldwide still lack access to basic facilities for WASH, which stands for Water, Sanitation, and what?
What is Hygiene?
The WHO is a specialized agency operating under the umbrella of what major intergovernmental organization established in 1945?
What is the United Nations (UN)?
In 1796, Edward Jenner developed the world's first successful vaccine using material from lesions caused by which related animal virus?
What is Cowpox?
What medical abbreviation stands for the "CDC", the primary national public health institute of the United States?
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Diseases that naturally transmit from animals to humans, such as Ebola or Rabies, are known by what technical term?
What are zoonotic diseases (or zoonoses)
Conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes are known as the social what of health?
What are the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)?
What target deadline did the United Nations set for its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 3 for "Good Health and Well-being"?
What is 2030?
What type of vaccine technology, used in several major COVID-19 vaccines, instructs cells to make a protein that triggers an immune response?
What is mRNA (messenger RNA)?
What is the average adult human body's largest organ by surface area and weight?
What is the skin?
Certified eradicated in 1980 thanks to a massive global vaccination campaign, what is the only human disease to be completely wiped out?
What is Smallpox?
What term describes the disproportionate lack of access to safe, affordable menstrual products and education experienced by low-income individuals globally?
What is Period Poverty?
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who took office as Director-General of the WHO in 2017, served as the Minister of Health for which African nation?
What is Ethiopia?
The overuse and misuse of medications in humans and livestock has led to what global health threat, abbreviated as AMR?
What is Antimicrobial Resistance?
Which landlocked South American country is named after the same general as the nation where the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) regional office works closely?
What is Bolivia?
What 1918 influenza pandemic infected roughly one-third of the global population and was incorrectly nicknamed after a European country that remained neutral in WWI?
What is the Spanish Flu?
Health equity differs from health equality because equality gives everyone the same resources, whereas equity distributes resources based on what?
What is need?
Adopted in 2003, the FCTC was the WHO’s first global public health treaty aimed at curbing the global epidemic of what harmful substance?
What is Tobacco?
What revolutionary gene-editing technology, whose pioneers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, allows scientists to precisely alter DNA sequences?
What is CRISPR (or CRISPR-Cas9)?
The rod of Asclepius, a staff entwined with what animal, serves as the global symbol for medicine and the logo of the WHO?
What is a snake (or serpent)?