Launch of the first joint estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) on work-related disease and injury burden.

Speakers

• WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
• ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder
• Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO, Dr Maria Neira
• Director, Governance and Tripartism Department, ILO, Vera Paquete-Perdigao
• Technical Officer, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO, Dr Frank Pega
• Statistician, Labour Administration/Occupational Safety and Health, ILO, Balint Nafradi

When

Friday 17 September 2021, 14:00 CEST

Where

Virtual press conference via zoom. Accredited journalists should email press contacts below for login details.

The event will also be live streamed on WHO’s social media channels Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; Instagram.

To receive the embargoed material please contact Ceridwen Johnson or mediainquiries@who.int.

Please note that the embargo lifts at 14:00 CEST on Friday 17 September 2021.

For more information please contact:

• Ceridwen Johnson, WHO Geneva, World Health Organization, Tel: +4179/5789678
• Andre Muchnik, WHO Geneva, World Health Organization, mediainquiries@who.int
• Rosalind Yarde, ILO Geneva, International Labour Organization, Tel: +4122/7997697, newsroom@ilo.org