public health emergency

A public health emergency is a situation in which the health of a population is threatened by a significant, often rapidly spreading hazard (such as an infectious disease, environmental exposure, or bioterrorism event) that requires urgent, coordinated public health action and resource mobilization.

Instances (4)

• 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic
• 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
• 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 2015–2016 Zika virus outbreak