UNESCO launches a series of online forums entitled “Imagining the world to come”
UNESCO is calling on inspiring voices from across the globe to take part in a series of online discussions to help us imagine the world taking shape as a result …
Year: 2020
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), a WHO collaborative cross-national study, has been seeking to understand and monitor young people’s health across Europe and Canada for more than 30 …
Questionnaire reopening schools and COVID-19
With the reopening of schools in countries where they have been closed, we are now entering a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. These nationwide and localized closures of schools …
News update UNESCO Chair – May 2020
Today we have published the UNESCO Chair news update of May 2020. Since the news update in February 2020 the world has changed dramatically. It has an impact on everyone’s life …
Re-opening schools: what knowledge can we rely upon?
Published on 5 May 2020 in The Conversation. This article is also available in French and Dutch. In the UK, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he wants nothing more …
Bringing a Health Promotion perspective to COVID-19 response by EUPHA-HP, IUHPE and UNESCO Chair
“A Health Promotion Focus on COVID-19. Keep the Trojan horse out of our health systems: Promote health for ALL in times of crisis and beyond!”. Ongoing discussion about the range …
A framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020
OECD recently published a report which aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In most countries around the world school-based …
Potatoes for Peace and COVID 19
With the advent of COVID 19, people have been launched into new, uncharted territories. Similarly, the Potato people find themselves in a new situation, in lockdown and unable to conduct …
Sharing experience and proposals: survey Health Promotion and COVID-19
The current pandemic is an exceptional situation calling on the health promotion community to (re)question and (re)affirm its specific contribution and approaches. The Health Promotion Section of EUPHA, IUHPE and …
COVID-19 and Community Action: Importance of Health Promotion
By: Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Many protective and preventive measures against respiratory infection including COVID-19 such as wearing face masks, …