WHX Dubai 2027 · Dubai
Device makers, imaging firms, lab suppliers and hospital groups at WHX Dubai first need to know which of two venues holds their stand. Lazulite has crewed six editions since the Arab Health years, building custom and modular stands with transparent OLED cases and scale models. WHX Dubai 2027 runs from 25 to 28 January. Devices and imaging fill Dubai Exhibition Centre; labs, pharma and consumables go to DWTC.
Show facts
WHX Dubai, World Health Expo, is the annual healthcare exhibition Informa Markets organises in Dubai, known as Arab Health from 1975 until its 2026 rename.
Show details checked: 9 November 2026
Many buyers still call WHX Dubai by its old name, Arab Health, which Dubai Health traces back to 1975. Informa Markets says the new name reflects a wider global scope. The first WHX edition ran from 9 to 12 February 2026 at Dubai Exhibition Centre.
For 2027 the organiser gives each of its nine product sectors a set venue. Dubai Exhibition Centre takes the International Halls, imaging, healthcare infrastructure, orthopaedics and rehabilitation, and IT. DWTC holds laboratory and diagnostics, pharma and biotech, longevity and wellness, and disposables and consumables. Medical equipment and devices appear at both. Labs, once Medlab Middle East, now run as a WHX zone.
The organiser's impact report counted 4,042 exhibitors from 193 countries and 68,000 attendees in 2026. The Dubai Health Authority and the Department of Health Abu Dhabi also took part. Bring price lists and registration documents for every product a distributor might carry.
WHX Dubai 2027 runs from Monday 25 to Thursday 28 January 2027. Monday opens at 11am and Tuesday and Wednesday at 10am, all closing at 6pm. Thursday runs from 10am to 5pm. The organiser already lists 20 to 23 March 2028 for the next edition.
WHX Dubai 2027 is split between two sites. At Dubai Exhibition Centre, part of Expo City Dubai, it uses South Halls 1 to 19, North Halls 21 to 39 and both plazas. At DWTC it fills Halls 1 to 8, Trade Centre Arena and the Sheikh Saeed and Sheikh Maktoum halls. A free shuttle runs between them daily.
Each WHX venue has its own Customer Centre, and the hall on your contract decides which manual, forms and deadline calendar apply. Custom stands need six to ten weeks before build-up. Inside five weeks of opening, a modular stand is the remaining route; call +971 50 173 8408.
Planning timeline
Ten weeks before opening
Custom brief naming your venue, sector and devices
Eight weeks before opening
Drawings drafted to that venue's build regulations
Five weeks before opening
Latest start for a modular stand
By the Customer Centre deadline
Drawings and service forms filed for your hall
Build-up days
Devices placed and screens live before the 11am Monday opening
WHX sells Startup Pods, shell scheme, space-only stands and country pavilions; Lazulite builds the last two. Our Dubai workshop makes the custom joinery, while Modular Exhibition Stands ship from Lazulite stock. Each drawing follows the manual for your contracted venue.
Imaging and orthopaedics both sit at Dubai Exhibition Centre, where buyers want to see inside equipment. A 3.0 Transparent OLED Portrait in front of an ultrasound cart labels each module over the real unit. A Dynamic LED Wall With Holobox presents a knee or hip implant system in 3D.
WHX badges are digital only, held in the WHX Events App, so lead capture starts from a visitor's phone. Interactive Kiosks and our Event Registration & Badging Systems log each contact's role, such as distributor, clinician or procurement lead. Your sales team gets the file each evening, sorted by country.
Monday opens an hour later than other days, and our engineer uses that hour to power up screens and kiosks. Thursday ends at 5pm, so the crate run starts an hour earlier. Exhibitors with stands at both venues get an engineer at each.
Healthcare infrastructure shares Dubai Exhibition Centre with imaging, so hospital planners and radiology buyers walk the same aisles. A VR Pod takes them through a fitted MRI room, from shielding to control desk. An indoor LED video wall mirrors the headset view.
Disposables and consumables sit at DWTC for 2027, where buyers compare sizes and carton counts. Set a glove box, syringe pack or dressing on a Tangible Table to bring up its sizes, materials and pack quantities.
The organiser lists pharma and biotech as new WHX sectors for 2027, placed at DWTC beside longevity and wellness. A Kinetic DNA sculpture gives a biotech stand a moving centrepiece, with a kiosk beside it for licensing contacts.
Clinicians earn CME-accredited learning on the Care Delivery, Radiology and Labs stages, and the shuttle adds travel between sites. Book their meetings through Event Registration & Badging Systems, in slots between sessions.
WHX keeps separate build regulations for Dubai Exhibition Centre and DWTC, each in that venue's Customer Centre. Lazulite drafts your stand to the right manual and uploads drawings before its deadline. Revised sets answer organiser comments before fabrication.
Customer Centre logins go to each exhibitor's company admin, who registers staff for badges and holds the mandatory forms. Your admin adds our build crew through the contractor process the venue manual sets out.
Each WHX manual covers electrical orders, rigging and safety for its venue. Lazulite drafts the stand's power, rigging and internet schedule, then submits each service order for you through your hall's Customer Centre. Imaging consoles and lab analysers go on the electrical form with their ratings.
Your stand number tells us which venue manual applies, and your device list sets the plinths, sockets and storage.
Drawings, electrical and rigging forms go into your venue's Customer Centre, with every powered unit and hanging point marked.
Product content, kiosk forms and OLED overlays run as one system in our Dubai workshop before the crew loads.
During build-up our crew finishes the joinery, hides each cable run and sets your devices on their plinths.
After the 5pm Thursday close, devices go back to your staff before the joinery comes down.
At WHX, the count of powered devices sets the base cost, since each needs a plinth, a circuit and content. Per WHX square metre, modular stands indicatively run AED 1,000 to 2,000, against AED 1,500 to 3,500 when the joinery is custom.
Informa Markets sells WHX space through its Book a Stand form and publishes no space rate. We list power, rigging and internet needs, lodge those orders in your venue's Customer Centre and itemise each venue charge. VAT is added on top.
A VR Pod tour or a transparent OLED case can stand in for a second unit you would otherwise ship and insure. A hired indoor LED video wall typically runs AED 300 to 650 per WHX show day for each square metre of screen.
Budget bands
Compact
Consumables or lab supplier near 12 square metres, typical WHX budget AED 30,000 to 70,000
Standard
Device or imaging brand near 36 square metres, typical WHX budget AED 80,000 to 200,000
Flagship
Island of about 100 square metres at either venue, typical WHX budget AED 300,000 to 650,000
Ranges checked: November 2026
Pricing note: These ranges are indicative, for planning only. Your final quote depends on your requirements, stand size, show duration and the resources your stand needs. They exclude organiser space, venue charges for power, rigging and internet, and VAT.
Rent vs custom
Rent
Hired screens, kiosks and pods for four January show days
Custom build
Joinery drawn around the devices you ship
WHX 2027 splits its sectors between Expo City Dubai and DWTC. An exhibitor with stands at both gets one Lazulite project lead and one content set.
The Emirates Drug Establishment joined WHX in 2026 beside the UAE's health authorities. Every product claim on your screens comes from approved labelling, signed off by your regulatory team.
Spare screens and panels leave Lazulite's Dubai Production City workshop by road and reach either WHX venue on the same show day.
Trusted by
The security and fire protection show from Messe Frankfurt Middle East fills DWTC halls on 12, 13 and 14 January 2027.
The defence and naval shows open at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi on 25 January 2027, the same day as WHX, and close on 29 January.
inD's food and beverage show spreads across DWTC and Dubai Exhibition Centre from 15 to 19 March 2027.
Can't find your answer? Speak with our Dubai team.
Yes. Arab Health reached its 50th edition in 2025, and Informa Markets ran the 2026 show as WHX Dubai at Dubai Exhibition Centre. The 2027 edition keeps the WHX name and adds DWTC as a second venue. Contracts, Customer Centre logins and badges all use WHX.
Let's build it together
Start with your stand number and the devices you plan to bring, which set the venue manual, power forms and plinths. Send both for a first concept and an indicative cost range, then a fixed quote once you approve the design. Call +971 50 173 8408 to hold a January workshop slot.
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