Accelerated Communicable Disease Control

Supports Member States, WHO offices, and partners in accelerating prevention efforts and ensuring timely access to quality services for diagnosis, treatment, and care, with a focus on reaching the unreached to reduce the burden of priority communicable diseases and achieve disease-specific elimination targets.

WHO/Yoshi Shimizu

The Accelerated Communicable Disease Control (ACD) unit supports Member States, WHO offices and partners to reduce the burden of priority communicable diseases, with a focus on reaching the unreached. The Unit advances this work through Advocacy, Convening and Enabling (ACE):

Evidence-based advocacy to strengthen national and subnational systems for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of priority communicable diseases
Convening multisectoral and cross-programme action to align strategies, strengthen integrated health systems and services, and optimize the use of resources
Enabling countries through technical standards and guidance, policy support and data-driven solutions to strengthen surveillance and service delivery, and to support community engagement and empowerment for health system resilience

Dr Rajendra-Prasad Yadav

Coordinator, Accelerated Communicable Disease Control

His current work is focused on supporting Member States to accelerate communicable disease control, strengthen primary health care, and apply digital innovations to improve health system performance across the Western Pacific Region.

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