World Health Organization (WHO)
Maintains the international EMF health-evidence assessments, commissions systematic reviews, and publishes the position statements national authorities cite.
health authorityInternational
Last verified 12 August 2026.
- Role
- health authority
- Jurisdiction
- International
- Website
- https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-health/radiation-and-health/non-ionizing
Related records
- WHO-commissioned systematic review of RF exposure and cancer in humans (2024)
A systematic review and meta-analysis of human observational studies found no association between mobile phone use and brain or head-and-neck cancers, including for long-term and heavy use.
Research record
- WHO position on electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS)
WHO recognises that people report real and sometimes disabling symptoms they attribute to EMF, while provocation studies have not shown that participants can detect field presence or that symptoms track actual exposure.
Research record
Sources
- who-emf-rf Radiation: Electromagnetic fields (questions and answers) — World Health Organization. government, link checked 2026-08-12.
- who-elf Electromagnetic fields and public health: exposure to extremely low frequency fields — World Health Organization, 2007. government, link checked 2026-08-12.
- who-ehs Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (WHO backgrounder, December 2005; formerly Fact sheet 296) — World Health Organization, 2005. government, link checked 2026-08-12.
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