As a medical humanitarian organization working in emergencies, MSF values the leadership and work of WHO in health emergencies today. Recalling the challenges faced in the wake of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and COVID 19 pandemic, the reforms that WHO have undertaken this past decade have reaffirmed the important role it serves as convener, facilitator and standard setter on evidence-based and principled practices. In a world with rapid geopolitical shifts, increasingly warmer earth and growing loss of respect for frameworks, laws and conventions as demonstrated by a record number of attacks on healthcare, this role is ever more critical to ensure an equitable, inclusive response and enable all actors—especially medical-humanitarian teams—to deliver much needed care to all those affected.