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COVID-19 has revealed that a virus can affect not only our physical health but also our ability to cope with the psychological impact in its wake. To address the impact of mental health through COVID-19, Christie’s auction house, together with the WHO Foundation, UN75, and a range of other partners including Tate galleries, Italy’s Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Art Newspaper engaged in a cultural call-to-action to support the global COVID-19 response through the arts through The Future is Unwritten Healing Arts Auction series was held. The auction series increased awareness around a global path to recovery and raised critical funds to mobilize artists and health professionals in support of communities most vulnerable, at-risk, and with the weakest health systems to act effectively in response to the pandemic. All proceeds supported urgently needed mental health responses to the pandemic through the applied use of arts in health-giving and recovery. A fund also supported artist-led projects that directly facilitated community healing and healthcare messaging. A number of educational events further covered urgent thematic areas, from emergency response, to mental health, health effects of the environmental crisis, to the achievement of Universal Health Coverage, each through the lens of the supportive power of the arts. In total, nearly US$ 200 000 was raised.

On February 8, 2023, the WHO Foundation launched a campaign to urgently raise funds for WHO’s Earthquake Emergency Appeal for Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic. The WHO appeal (part of a broader UN appeal) is in response to the multiple earthquake disasters in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic that began early on Monday 6 February, killing over 23,000 people and leaving more than 83 000 in urgent need of life-saving medical support and these numbers continue to climb.

To donate, visit earthquakeresponse.who.foundation.

On March 2nd 2022, along with the WHO, we launched the Health Emergency Appeal for Ukraine to support the frontline response to deliver urgent healthcare to people across Ukraine and refugees in neighboring countries affected by this crisis.

The escalating crisis in Ukraine has seen casualties and injuries rising and people forced to flee, severely reducing the capacity of health systems to cope with people wounded and others in need of urgent health care. In just one month, nearly 11 million people, nearly a quarter of Ukraine’s population, have been forcibly displaced. As of April 4, 2022, it was estimated that 6.5 million are internally displaced and more than 4.2 million were forced to leave the country.

This crisis is having a devastating impact on these countries health systems and severely reducing the capacity to cope.

Donations to the appeal are ongoing via ukraine.who.foundation.

In April 2021, the global fundraising appeal, Give a Breath for Health, driven by the WHO Foundation and WHO, was launched to support the delivery of oxygen and other life-saving supplies to health facilities treating patients with COVID-19 around the world. In many countries in the Americas, a severe oxygen shortage threatened the health of people with respiratory issues fighting COVID-19. This put an incredible strain on the region’s health services and led to thousands of unnecessary deaths. WHO Foundation launched Give a Breath for the Americas to support WHO and PAHO’s efforts in the region. The appeal received support from WHO’s goodwill Ambassador and Brazilian international football star Alisson Becker. The appeal has now concluded.