This is a significant revision of the existing Standard Operating Procedures necessitated by recent advances in outbreak response, principally the Emergency Use Listing of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 in 2021. This is the fourth version of the polio outbreak SOPs which give response teams in countries step by step guidance on how to respond, including vaccine choice and scope of the response in countries, and how these steps are supported by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).

This book fills a major gap in academic research, by exploring ‘urban resilience measures’ and ‘city management issues’ during disruptive disease outbreak events. Based on the overarching concept of ‘resilience thinking’, it addresses critical issues of preparedness, responsiveness and reflectiveness in the event of outbreak, focusing on cities and how they should prepare to combat a variety of adversities and uncertainties caused by outbreaks. This comprehensive book is an essential guide for decision-makers, city authorities, planners, healthcare and public health authorities, and those communities and businesses that face disease outbreak events. It also offers a set of practical measures to support the development of tailor-made strategies in the form of an action plan. These strategies should address outbreak control and containment measures, institutional rearrangements, management of urban systems, and healthiness of the society. Divided into six chapters, this book explores important topics of ‘urban resilience’ and ‘city management’ for preparedness action plans and responsiveness planning. Further, it presents a comprehensive urban resilience approach used to support city management in the recent outbreaks in Chinese cities, which can be applied in cities around the globe to strengthen their resilience and maximise the practicality of urban resilience and minimise urban vulnerabilities during disease outbreaks. Highlighting topics such as maintaining societal well-being, community engagement, and multi-sectoral city management enhancement, this book offers a unique combination of research, practices and lessons learned to aid cities in need.

Along with the Impact Measurement and the Output Scorecard, country case studies are one of the three components of WHO’s results reporting framework. These set of rich country case studies come directly from the field and highlight WHO’s key successes realized over the recent past. They cover achievements and results across a wide spectrum of areas to deliver on the promise of the triple billion targets. The collection of case studies responds to the request of WHO’s donors and partners to provide additional information on both the diversity of settings, in which WHO is currently working at country level and the variety of approaches that the Organization is using to better serve its Member States. This publication will complement the 2023 WHO Midterm Results Report and will be available to WHO Member States, partners, and donors online on WHO’s public webpages. Each story is directly linked to a GPW13 outcome and provides a snapshot of the Organization’s range of efforts to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.