WHO Global Youth Competition on Influenza & COVID-19 Prevention and Control 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 13, 2026

Applications are invited for the WHO Global Youth Competition on Influenza & COVID-19 Prevention and Control 2026. WHO invites college students and younger professionals to take part on this youth competitors by growing transient movies that spotlight the significance of influenza and/or COVID-19 prevention and management. The movies are inspired to be progressive, tackle misinformation/myths, and encourage their neighborhood 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?” 

Competition Prompts: The submission should embrace a short video that responds to a number of of the next prompts:   

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

Benefits

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

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

Eligibility

• Participants should be college students or younger professionals;
• Between the ages of 18 and 35.

Instructions for Participants

• Participants should tackle at the least one of many competitors 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 kinds can embrace however are usually not 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 should be acknowledged within the submission kind.
• The video could also be in any language however should embrace English subtitles.

Submission Criteria

Submissions will probably be assessed on the next standards:

• Video message aligns with the competitors theme and responds to at the least one of many competitors prompts
• Originality and creativity 
• Accuracy and readability of well being info 
•  Visual fashion and storytelling high quality 
• The video contains English subtitles 
• Responses to the submission kind questions together with the:
  • Motivation/rationale for the video 
  • Prompts chosen and how they have been addressed 
  • Potential affect of the video
  • Feasibility for dissemination in the neighborhood 
  • Confirmation that each one filmed people consented to their look within the video and are over the age of 18
  • Confirmation that the people submitting the video are between the ages of 18-35 years 

Application

All submissions should be obtained via the designated Microsoft Forms by Sunday 13 September 2026 at 23:45 CEST.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to WHO Global Youth Competition.