Pins zu posted:2026-09-30

From 1 October 2026 adults aged 65 and over can get the NHS flu jab, and the autumn COVID-19 programme for older adults, care home residents and the immunosuppressed opens, running to 31 January 2027.

Uganda's Ministry of Health runs a nationwide measles-rubella booster campaign from 1 to 5 October 2026 for children under five regardless of past vaccination, aiming for about 7.47 million children after measles outbreaks in 18 districts this year.

WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization holds its autumn meeting on 5-8 October 2026 at WHO headquarters in hybrid format, by invitation only; the agenda is to be published nearer the time.

The FDA has set 26 October 2026 as its priority-review goal date for GSK's bepirovirsen, an antisense drug aimed at a functional cure of chronic hepatitis B after two positive phase III B-Well trials.

California's State Water Resources Control Board is due to consider the final water right permit for the $6.2-6.8 billion Sites Reservoir on 4 November 2026. The Sites Project Authority moved the 1.5 million acre-foot project into its investment period after the revised draft permit, the last big step before construction.

Twitch's fan convention for livestreamers and their communities returns to San Diego for three days in November.

The international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis fills Chicago for six days, with the exhibit floor open for three.

WHO's IHR Emergency Committee on the Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic is due to reconvene, roughly three months after its 18 August meeting, to say whether the emergency still stands. WHO counts 7,890 confirmed cases and 3,799 deaths in the DRC as of 23 September 2026.

WHO extended the polio Temporary Recommendations for a further three months from 21 August 2026, so the IHR Emergency Committee is expected to review whether polio remains a public health emergency around late November. Wild poliovirus type 1 stays confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Africa CDC and Ethiopia host the 5th International Conference on Public Health in Africa, 23-27 November 2026, under the theme of health security and sovereignty as the Bundibugyo Ebola emergency continues.

The annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America runs five days, with technical exhibits open for four.

PAHO's Regional Verification Commission will decide in November 2026 whether the United States and Mexico, each a year into sustained measles transmission, keep their elimination status; Canada and the Americas region already lost theirs in November 2025.

The six-month joint Africa CDC and WHO continental Ebola preparedness and response plan, which sought US$518 million, covers June to November 2026 and so runs out at the end of November. Africa CDC's advisers still advise keeping the continental emergency in place.

The tabletop side of PAX takes over Philadelphia for a weekend of board games, expo hall demos, tournaments and panels.

Quebec's new Île-aux-Tourtes bridge on Autoroute 40 between Senneville and Vaudreuil-Dorion is scheduled to open its first structure in late 2026 with five dynamically managed lanes. The second structure follows in 2027.

The Global Fund expects generic lenacapavir, the twice-yearly HIV prevention injection, to enter the market by the end of 2026, with 24 countries worldwide due to receive it by then. Nearly 100,000 people in nine high-burden African countries had received it by mid-August 2026.

WHO South-East Asia's target to eliminate measles and rubella by 2026 reaches its deadline on 31 December, after being moved from 2020 to 2023 to 2026. The Regional Verification Commission warned in June that the target "may not be achieved" as outbreaks rise in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand and Maldives.

The FDA has assigned a 6 January 2027 PDUFA target date for ImmunityBio's supplemental BLA for Anktiva plus BCG in BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with papillary disease.

The National Retail Federation's annual show gathers more than 40,000 retail professionals in Manhattan for three days in January.

The music-products industry's annual show runs five days in Southern California, with the exhibit halls open for the last three.

NAHB's residential construction show takes over the Las Vegas Convention Center for three days as part of Design & Construction Week.

CDC's calendar lists the first ACIP meeting of 2027 for 24-26 February; the committee's spring 2026 meetings were cancelled amid litigation, so the schedule remains subject to change.

The game industry's biggest developer gathering, rebranded as a festival, runs five days in San Francisco.

The natural and organic industry's biggest trade show returns to the Anaheim Convention Center for four days.