The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that active and mutually supportive relations between crucial actors in Global Health such as international organizations, NGOs, scholars and scientists may be the most important factor while managing health crises on a global scale. The World Health Organization, however criticized for delayed reaction on the Covid-19 challenge, is at the centre of global attention regarding achieving Universal Health Coverage (Burci 2005; Colin 2015) but very little is known about WHO Collaborating Centres, that is, scientific institutions located in more than 100 countries which actively cooperate not only with WHO, but also with national health authorities. Characterized by scientific expertise in local and global health problems WHO CCs have a unique place as Global Governance Institutions (GGIs, Yang 2021). Because they combine global mandate of WHO mission with sensitivity to local problems regarding health care, they may be a missing link between WHO and the so called Non-State Actors in Global Health. However a lack of proper cooperation between those two pillars of Global Health governance is perceived as one of the main challenges in this field and, undeniably, compromises WHO relations with its partners (Lee, Kelley and Piper 2020), WHO CCs may fill the gap between global orientation of WHO on the one hand and Non-State Actors’ activism on the other. Unfortunately, the valuable contribution of WHO CCs to Global Health often goes unnoticed in the mass media and their scientific potential is underutilized by WHO itself which constantly admits it in Evaluation Reports.