WHO 2026 Global youth competition on influenza and COVID-19 prevention and control – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline: 13 September 2026 at 23:45 CEST.

Applications are actually open for the 2026 WHO Global youth competition on influenza and COVID-19 prevention and control. WHO invites college students and younger professionals to take part on this youth competition by creating transient movies that spotlight the significance of influenza and/or COVID-19 prevention and control. The movies are inspired to be progressive, tackle misinformation/myths, and encourage their group to guard themselves from seasonal influenza and COVID-19.

Competition theme: 

• “How do you shield your circle from respiratory infections, like influenza and COVID-19?” 

Eligibility: 

• Participants have to be college students or younger professionals between the ages of 18 and 35.

Competition Prompts: 

The submission should embrace a quick video that responds to a number of of the next prompts:   

• Prompt 3: What myths about influenza and/or COVID-19 prevention and control are circulating in your group? How do you tackle them?   
• Prompt 1: Who wants safety from seasonal influenza/COVID-19? How can weak teams defend themselves? Why is it necessary?  
• Prompt 2: How do you reply to somebody who has doubts about influenza and/or COVID-19 prevention and control in your group?   

Winning movies: 

• There can be one international successful video and as much as six movies highlighted as runners-up. 
• The successful movies can be featured by WHO on the competition webpage. The scholar(s) who submitted the successful video will:

• Be invited to current their video on a worldwide influenza/COVID-19 prevention and control-focused webinar in October 2026 and
• Receive a certificates from WHO that includes their identify(s) and the video title

Participartion Requirements

• Participants should tackle not less than one of many competition prompts of their video.
• Students can work independently or in groups. 
• Video can be a most of 90 seconds (1.5 minutes).
• Students can submit as much as three movies. 
• Submitted movies are inspired to be artistic. Video types can embrace however will not be restricted to storytelling, interview, reel, animation, drawings, poem, dialogue, or different artistic codecs. If AI is used to generate any portion of the submission, it have to be acknowledged within the submission kind.
• The video could also be in any language however should embrace English subtitles.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WHO Global youth competition on influenza and COVID-19 prevention and control