In June 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Health Inequality Monitoring (HIM) Network—a WHO-led initiative committed to advancing health equity and inclusive health systems. Hosted by the Department of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and AI, the HIM Network advocates for the implementation of the Inequality Monitoring and Analysis Strategy, which supports three goals:
- strengthening capacity for health inequality monitoring;
- generating and disseminating evidence on health inequality; and
- developing health inequality monitoring tools, resources and best practices.
The HIM Network’s initial membership consists of 12 institutions, spanning all WHO regions and encompassing over 100 individual contributors:
- Bruyère Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Centre d'Epidémiologie et de Recherche en santé des populations (CERPOP), Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, INSERM, France
- Health Equity Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- Indian Council of Medical Research, Regional Medical Research Centre Bhubaneswar, India
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States of America
- Makerere University School of Public Health, Maternal Newborn and Child Health Centre of Excellence, Uganda
- National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Australia
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Office for National Statistics (Health and International Directorate), United Kingdom
- School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, China
- School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Germany
