15 May 2025, Cairo, Egypt – The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean has launched a landmark innovation designed to transform how countries prepare for and respond to health emergencies.
The All-Hazard Information Management (AIM) Toolkit leverages generative artificial intelligence to drastically reduce the time needed to produce critical response documents from weeks to minutes while maintaining high technical quality and contextual relevance. It was developed by the Health Emergencies Team at the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean with support from NORCAP (part of the Norwegian Refugee Council) and WHO’s Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin.
Multiple protracted emergencies, ranging from disease outbreaks and displacement to climate-related shocks and conflict, place immense pressure on overstretched systems across the Region. The AIM Toolkit responds to this urgent need by equipping WHO and health authorities with a rapid, reliable and context-sensitive mechanism to guide emergency decision-making from the outset of crisis.
WHO’s involvement in emergency response is triggered through a structured decision-making process anchored in the Organization’s Emergency Response Framework (ERF). This includes assessing the hazard, planning the response and monitoring impact in alignment with existing capacities, vulnerabilities and global coordination mechanisms such as the WHO-led United Nations Health Cluster. While these steps are essential to ensure quality and accountability, they are often time intensive.
The AIM Toolkit embeds AI in key stages of this process, enabling WHO teams to:
access and organize technical guidance from WHO and partners;
structure response frameworks around clearly defined objectives, actions and