# World Health Organization (WHO)

> Maintains the international EMF health-evidence assessments, commissions systematic reviews, and publishes the position statements national authorities cite.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/organizations/who
- Collection: Organizations
- Record id: `organizations:who`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/organizations/who

## Key values

- **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)](https://emfbase.com/studies/who-rf-cancer-review-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.
- [WHO position on electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS)](https://emfbase.com/studies/who-electromagnetic-hypersensitivity): 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.

## Sources

- `who-emf-rf` World Health Organization. *Radiation: Electromagnetic fields (questions and answers)*. https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-electromagnetic-fields — government, link checked 2026-08-12
- `who-elf` World Health Organization (2007). *Electromagnetic fields and public health: exposure to extremely low frequency fields*. https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-health/radiation-and-health/non-ionizing/exposure — government, link checked 2026-08-12
- `who-ehs` World Health Organization (2005). *Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (WHO backgrounder, December 2005; formerly Fact sheet 296)*. https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-health/radiation-and-health/non-ionizing/hypersensitivity — government, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

This record is reference data, not medical or legal advice. Regulatory limits, scientific guidelines and precautionary values are labelled separately and answer different questions.