UNESCO Chair GHE

Launch 2nd mandate UNESCO Chair GHE
2023-10-19 14:00 - 2023-10-20 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
The team of the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education is delighted to invite you to be part of two events to celebrate the launch of its 2nd mandate.

Official launch 2nd mandate UNESCO Chair

On 19 October 2023, 14.00 – 17.00 CEST, the 2nd mandate of the UNESCO Chair will be officially launched – in hybrid mode -, at UNESCO House in Paris and online. In 2022, the Chair’s application for renewal was approved by UNESCO and WHO. The commitment of the Chair remains the same for this second mandate: knowledge production and sharing, in order to support institutions and professionals committed to promoting health for all and reducing inequalities.

Register here to attend the official launch online or in person at UNESCO headquarters.

Creating the conditions for health for all: from practices to a framework for action

On 20 October 2023, 9.30 – 16.30 CEST, a UNESCO Chair event for the French speaking community will take place – in hybrid mode -, at MGEN headquarters in Paris and online. D The main theme of this day is to support social change to develop environments and practices that promote lifelong learning and health for all. During this event, a number of initiatives that were developed during the first mandate, will be presented and lessons and experiences will be shared.

Register here to attend the French-speaking event online or in person at MGEN headquarters.

We are pleased to welcome you to these two events.

Global Forum for Adolescents
2023-10-11 08:00 - 2023-10-12 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
It’s all about making the world a better place for the young people of the world.

They’ll be joining forces with leaders and decision-makers from around the world to focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and make sure that they’re all working together to ensure healthy lives and well-being for everyone.

What’s the Global Forum all about?

​The Global Forum is a chance for young people to come together and take stock of the progress made toward the SDGs, and to figure out how we can do even better in the future. We’ll be hearing from leaders, sharing our stories and ideas, and working together to find solutions that will make a real difference in young peoples’ lives.​

Webinar on results IBEST 2023
2023-10-10 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
On 10 October 2023, Education and Solidarity Network (ESN), Education International (EI) and UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education will present the results of the 2nd edition of the International Barometer of the Health and Well-being of Education Personnel, carried out in collaboration with the Foundation for Public Health.

For this second edition, the participants come from 11 territories spread over 4 continents: Argentina, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, Spain, France, Japan, Morocco, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Quebec. In all, more than 26,000 teachers and education personnel were questioned.

Covering topics ranging from working conditions and work-life balance to the physical and mental health of education staff and the impact of digital technology on them, the barometer sheds new light on issues of well-being and health at work in education. The results will be presented during a webinar on 10 October 2023 (14:00 to 15:30 CEST).

Interpretation will be available in French, English and Spanish.

Through a dialogue between various stakeholders in education and health and the participants, the webinar will provide a space for exchange and reflection on the main findings of the survey, as well as on promoting the well-being of education staff at national and international level.

Registration links:

EnglishFrenchSpanish

Arab Adolescents Forum
2023-10-03 08:00 - 2023-10-04 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
In aligning with the “Global Forum for Adolescents”, this Arab Adolescent Forum 2023 aims to build a regional movement as a “Call to Action” for Adolescents, to mobilize political and financial commitment for better policies, programs, and financing to address young people’s needs. This regional event will be organized with young people and adolescents, recognizing them, celebrating their success stories, and highlighting how further momentum and progress can be made – especially by collaborating across sectors.

Building on the theme : “Share, Engage, Act’

The Arab Adolescents Forum will:

Present gaps and share new evidence on multi-sectorial approaches to adolescent wellbeing in the Arab region.

Engage adolescents in the Arab region, including those most left behind in both the development and humanitarian contexts.

Call for Action for financial and political commitments to ensure better policies, programs and financing for young people’s needs in the region.

XIII Congreso Internacional de Salud Pública - Educación en el Campo de la Salud - UNESCO Chair speaking
2023-08-23 08:00 - 2023-08-25 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
El XIII Congreso Internacional de Salud Pública será sobre la Educación en el Campo de la Salud, como una respuesta a la importancia que la educación tiene para la salud pública y a la necesidad fortalecerla. En este sentido, este evento ampliará la discusión y el debate sobre sus diferentes corrientes y perspectivas teóricas, pedagógicas y políticas; por esto la pertinencia de abordarla como un campo. Asimismo, la exigencia de superar posiciones instrumentalistas para abordarla como un derecho que interviene de múltiples formas en la determinación social de la salud y en la transformación humana, social y planetaria, y por lo tanto, en el avance de la justicia social y ambiental.

Por esta razón se requiere una acción intersectorial, con una especial participación del sector educativo, la cual precisa una aproximación transdisciplinar que vincule a las disciplinas del área de la salud y de las ciencias sociales. Así, este congreso tendrá el siguiente objetivo general:

Presentar, reconocer y analizar experiencias y aprendizajes de Educación en el Campo de la Salud en los ámbitos académicos, gubernamentales, institucionales y comunitarios para avanzar en la discusión y problematización sobre su fundamentación teórica, su concreción en políticas, programas y la práctica educativa, desde una perspectiva transdisciplinar, intersectorial e interseccional.

Global Community Health Annual Workshop - third edition
2023-06-13 10:00 - 2023-06-15 19:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
The Global Community Health Annual workshop provides a space where community health and health promotion practitioners and policy makers can improve their skills and where researchers can gain in capacities to conduct community-based participatory research.

The third edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop will take place from 13 till 15 June 2023.

The overall workshop theme is “Sustainable community health: practice-based solutions for today’s challenges”. The theme will be explored via three sub-themes, one for each workshop day:

Food security

Mental health

Environmental health

Organisers are the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, University of Clermont Auvergne, University of Huddersfield, International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), EHESP School of Public Health and Réseau Francophone International Pour la Promotion de la Sante (RÉFIPS).

European Public Health Week 2023
2023-05-22 08:00 - 2023-05-26 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
The overarching theme is ‘Public health: Global issues, local actions’. Each day of the week will have its own daily theme:

• Monday 22 May: Mental health for all • Tuesday 23 May: Diversity in health• Wednesday 24 May: Access to care• Thursday 25 May: Prevention and control of NCDs• Friday 26 May: Global health emergencies and response

Do you want to receive the newest updates about the European Public Health Week? Subscribe for the EUPHW newsletter by sending an e-mail to: EUPHAcommunications@eupha.org.

First National Event of Health, Environment & Sustainability, Iran - UNESCO Chair speaking
2023-05-03 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)

Webinar – Connecting health and education to unleash learners’ potential: The state of school health and nutrition around the world - UNESCO Chair moderating
2023-04-25 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Nearly every country around the world is investing in their school-age children and adolescents through school health and nutrition. Good health and nutrition during school years are a prerequisite for children and adolescents to learn and grow, and a crucial investment for more prosperous and inclusive futures.

A joint report, Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition around the World, developed by UNESCO, UNICEF, WFP, FAO, GPE and WHO, with support from the Research Consortium for School health and Nutrition, UN-Nutrition Secretariat and World Bank, consolidates multiple data sources and case studies to inform advocacy and quality programmes. It encourages efforts to improve, scale up, sustain and monitor progress to address learners’ needs holistically.

The event will highlight the transformative impact of school health and nutrition for learners. Presentations will showcase country good practices and the importance of diverse stakeholders in efforts to ensure that all children and adolescents can learn and thrive.

Speakers are:

Christopher Castle, Director of the Division of Peace and Sustainable Development, UNESCO

Dr. Yinghua Ma, Professor, Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Peking University, China

Dr. Adesola Olumide, Researcher and Consultant Community Physician at the Institute of Child Health, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Nigeria. International Association of Adolescent Health (IAAH) Vice President (2022-2025) – Sub-Sahara Africa Region

Prof. Donald Bundy, Director of the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

The webinar is moderated by Nicola Gray, Co-chair holder UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education, Senior Lecturer, University of Huddersfield, UK.

During the webinar the experts will explore the following questions:

What is the status of school health and nutrition policies and programmes around the world, and what are the main take aways from your research?

China has extensive experience with school health and nutrition. How are the health and education sectors working together in China to implement an integrated approach to school health at scale and monitor progress?

What is your experience with the implementation of school health and nutrition in schools in Nigeria?

How can the research community help fill evidence gaps and advance more effective approaches to school health and nutrition?

Register for the webinar today. This webinar will also be broadcasted live on the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education YouTube Channel.

More information.

Virtual seminar - School Meals and School Health: Learning from the evidence & experience
2023-03-30 14:00 - 15:15 (Europe/Paris)
The Analytics & Metrics Community of Practice (COP) first virtual seminar of 2023!

Practitioners of school meals and school health, UN officials, and researchers from the University of Maryland, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Harvard University, will discuss their work featuring the case of Ethiopia and the effective measurement of the impact of school health and nutrition programmes globally.

Speakers:

Lauren Cohee, MD MS, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Pediatrics Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Elvis Odeke, World Food Programme, School Meals Officer, Ethiopia

With introductory remarks from Professor Don Bundy, Director of the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Moderated by Stéphane Verguet, Associate Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Sandra Camargo, World Food Programme, Research and Policy, School Based Programmes Division

22 mars 2023 (in French) – Décoloniser les savoirs et les pratiques : un impératif de justice sociale – N°2
2023-03-22 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Ce webinaire est le second d’une série sur le thème de la décolonisation des savoirs et des pratiques en promotion de la santé. L’objectif premier de cette série de webinaires est de permettre une réflexion critique sur la hiérarchie des savoirs, laquelle n’a pas cessé de s’imposer en promotion de la santé malgré le nombre accru de voix qui s’élèvent pour un changement de paradigme à cet égard. La décolonisation des savoirs et des pratiques en promotion de la santé répond à un impératif de justice sociale puisqu’elle implique de mettre en lumière les mécanismes politiques et sociaux susceptibles de contribuer à la propagation et l’accroissement des inégalités de santé à l’échelle globale.

En nous appuyant sur trois études de cas, nous proposons de réfléchir aux balises à poser pour promouvoir des collaborations entre chercheurs, décideurs et acteurs de terrain à la fois justes et fructueuses.

Pluriversalité des savoirs en santé publique : Que retenir des philosophes africains pour la recherche et la pratique ici et ailleurs ? par Lara Gautier.

La (dé)colonisation comme cadre de référence pour examiner les idées et approches populaires touchant les programmes de repas scolaires , par Irène Torres

Incidence de l’écoute sur la santé mentale et physique des femmes en situation de précarité, par Khadija Metta

Avec :

Lara Gautier, Professeure adjointe à l’École de santé publique de l’Université de Montréal (ESPUM), Canada.

Irene Torres, Directrice technique de la Fondation Octaedro, Équateur

Khadija Mettat, Directrice de l’Association “Santé et Formation”, Maroc

Modération et discussion :

Carole Faucher, Anthropologue, Chercheure, Nordic Center for Conflict Transformation, Chaire UNESCO Éducations & Santé

Adbou Khaly Mbodj, Coordinateur de la Plateforme Rawal Ak Diam, Sénégal

The Voice of Children and Youth on Water for Sustainable Development; Taking Action for Humanity and the Planet - UNESCO Chair speaking
2023-03-22 15:00 - 17:15 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Official Virtual Side Event, UN Water Conference

Join this side event where students from schools in Bhutan, Germany, Malawi, Scotland, United Arab Emirates and United States of America will present their projects and deliver key messages for Action on Water for Sustainable Development.

Students will be joined by speakers from the Department of Land Resources Conservation Ministry of Agriculture (Malawi), Mountain Partnership (Italy), UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education (France), UNESCO World Heritage Site Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch (Switzerland) and local government (Germany).

Organised by the Zero Water Day Partnership

International Adolescent Health Week
2023-03-19 08:00 - 2023-03-25 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
International Adolescent Health Week, celebrated yearly, is a grass-roots initiative for young people, their health care providers, their teachers, their parents, their advocates and their communities to come together to celebrate young people, with an ultimate goal of working collectively towards improving the health and well-being of the over 1 billion adolescents across the globe today.

This year’s theme is With and For Adolescents: Building a Healthier and More Inclusive Future

Webinar (in Spanish) The curricular experience in School Health Promotion
2023-03-16 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
On 16 March 2023 the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Health & Education in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico and the Chair of Health Promotion at the University of Girona will organise the webinar: the curricular experience in school health promotion. The webinar will be held in Spanish.

The questions that will be addressed during this webinar are:

What should be the key competences of School Health Promotion?

How to articulate School Health Promotion curriculum mainstreaming initiatives?

What are the implications of the School Health Promotion curriculum experience for university vocational training programmes?

The speakers are:

Sofialeticia Morales Garza, Secretary of Education of the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Anna Loste Romero, Health promotion technician, Dipsalut, Spain.

Dolors Juvinyà Canal, Director of the Health Promotion Chair at the University of Girona, Spain.

Link to register.

More information in Spanish.

Webinar (in French) - Les 1000 premiers jours 2/4 : un enfant, des besoins fondamentaux, une démarche
2023-03-16 13:30 - 14:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
Inscriptions : Le lien de connexion au webinaire vous sera communiqué après votre inscription.

Inscrivez-vous ici : https://bit.ly/besoins-enfant

La santé des personnes est façonnée par tout un ensemble de déterminants d’origine sociale, éducative ou environnementale. La période des « 1000 premiers jours de la vie » présente des spécificités qui la rendent cruciale à cet égard. Spécialistes de la santé publique et/ou de la recherche s’attachent à mettre en lumière le rôle joué par l’environnement physique, social et affectif sur le développement des enfants durant cette première phase de la vie et son impact sur toute leur trajectoire de vie. Cette question revêt des enjeux tout à la fois sanitaires, sociaux, sociétaux et politiques et suscite de plus en plus de débats dans la sphère publique.

Ce webinaire est le deuxième d’une série de quatre webinaires consacrée au thème des 1000 premiers jours. Il est centré sur les enjeux du développement affectif et social de l’enfant durant ses premières années et plus spécifiquement sur ses besoins fondamentaux. En France, la démarche de consensus sur les besoins fondamentaux de l’enfant, dirigée par le Dr. Martin-Blachais en 2017, a marqué une étape décisive dans la reconnaissance et la prise en compte de ces besoins fondamentaux par l’ensemble des acteurs impliqués dans l’accompagnement des jeunes enfants. Durant ce webinaire, nous reviendrons avec le Dr. Martin-Blachais sur les enjeux et les répercussions de cette démarche de consensus et explorerons comment ces nouvelles connaissances sont venues progressivement transformer à la fois les politiques et les pratiques des différents acteurs de la petite enfance.

Le Dr. Martin-Blachais répondra successivement aux deux questions suivantes :

Quels ont été l’origine, les enjeux et les répercussions de la démarche de consensus sur les besoins fondamentaux de l’enfant ? En quoi celle-ci constitue-t-elle un changement de paradigme ?

Comment cette nouvelle approche par les besoins fondamentaux s’est-elle trouvée intégrée dans les politiques et les pratiques professionnelles?

Ce webinaire est destiné à toute personne intéressée par la question : familles, professionnel.le.s de la santé ou de l’éducation, citoyens engagés, représentants de collectivités locales ou d’institutions nationales.

Seminar Pacific School Health Promotion Futures - UNESCO Chair speaking
2023-02-21 09:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
Please join us as we consider the future of school health promotion in the Pacific region. This seminar is the first in a series of dialogues that aim to bring together key stakeholders from across the region and provide a platform for discussion and innovation in school health promotion. The major aim of this first seminar is for us to consider how schools can best contribute to the health and wellbeing of students, teachers, and the broader school community moving forward. The seminar will adopt a futures based approach to consider what school health promotion might look like in 2050.

The seminar’s objectives are to:

Share current approaches to school health promotion across the Pacific region;

Discuss what we want school health promotion to look, and feel, like in 2050;

Identify current key enablers and barriers to school health promotion within our local and regional contexts;

Identify key priorities and actions for strengthening school health promotion in the short and medium term; and

Network among key stakeholders involved in school health promotion.

This seminar will be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, health promotion professionals, school nurses and other school health workers, health organisations, policy and curriculum workers, professional associations and academics.

The seminar is organised as a hybrid event online on Zoom and face to face at Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, Australia. It will be held in English and French with online simultaneous translation.

You can register by completing this form. Registration is open until Wednesday 15 February 2023. Participating in the workshop is free of charge.

The seminar is co-organised by Monash University and University of Clermont Auvergne, the UNESCO chair and WHO Collaborating Centre Global Health & Education, the Pacific Community and supported by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), Réseau francophone international pour la promotion de la santé (REFIPS), VicHealth, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the University of Auckland. Under the auspices of WHO Western Pacific (tbc) and UNESCO Office for the Pacific States.

Webinar (in Spanish) - Assessment, critical analysis and opportunities to strengthen research in School Health Promotion for children and adolescents in Latin America
2023-02-16 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
En español

On 16 February 2023 the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Health & Education and the University of Puerto Rico will organise the webinar: Assessment, critical analysis and opportunities to strengthen research in School Health Promotion for children and adolescents in Latin America. The webinar will be held in Spanish.

School Health Promotion and child and adolescent health should be high priorities for public health today. Research is an essential component in the development of policies, strategies, and programmes for School Health Promotion. Research is essential in the production of knowledge and the evaluation of practices. Developing a regional culture of research in School Health Promotion is a demand from various professional, institutional and academic sectors. Generating a research agenda in the field of School Health Promotion is a challenge that needs to be addressed.

The questions that will be addressed during this webinar are:

What is the current status of research on School Health Promotion and research on children and adolescents in Latin America?

What issues or research topics on School Health Promotion in general and on children and adolescents require priority attention?

What actions and strategies are required to articulate a research agenda in School Health Promotion and research on children and adolescents in Latin America?

The speakers are:

Dr. Alba Yaneth Rincón Méndez, Coordinator of the Social Outreach Area of WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre PROINAPSA, Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia.

Dr. Lucas Agostinho Fernandes, School Health Programme, Ministry of Health, Department of Health Promotion, Secretariat of Primary Health Care, Brazil.

Dr. Hiram V. Arroyo, Professor, Director, Department of Social Sciences, Director, World Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) Collaborating Centre for Training and Research in Health Promotion and Health Education, School of Biosocial Sciences and Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico.

The webinar will be held in Spanish and take place on 16 February 2023 at:

10:00 – 11:00 Puerto Rico

11:00 – 12:00 Brazil

9:00 – 10:00 Washington, DC

15:00 – 16:00 CET

Learning from PEER country profiles – The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education
2023-02-15 14:00 - 15:15 (Europe/Amsterdam)
On 15 February the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, the UNESCO Section of Health and Education and the Government of Sweden are co-hosting a webinar to launch the latest peer learning tool on countries’ approaches to comprehensive sexuality education.

The aim of the event is to explore the new country profiles to better understand the status of sexuality education around the world. Discussions will extract lessons from countries whose promising practices are empowering young people to make informed decisions about their futures.

Hear ministers of education, donors, youth advocates and teachers share their reflections on this new exciting online tool which maps laws and policies in each country to raise awareness of what works and guide implementation.

Register to join this webinar, in English or Spanish, on Wednesday 15 February from 2:00 to 3:15 pm CET.

Food and nutrition education and school food to improve diets for life
2022-12-08 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme in collaboration with the School Meals Coalition will organise a webinar: “Food and nutrition education and school food to improve diets for life – Linking school-based food and nutrition education with nutrition guidelines and standards for school food“.

This webinar will focus on the why and how school-based food and nutrition education (SFNE) can be used as a tool to increase the impact of school food nutrition guidelines and standards (NGS), addressing in particular the following aspects:

The importance of meaningfully linking school food NGS implementation and SFNE.Strategies to link school food NGS implementation and SFNE at national and school levels.Country experiences in linking school food and SFNE interventions, lessons learned and recommendations for other countries.

The webinar will be held in English.

Webinar: Décolonisation des savoirs, un impératif de justice sociale
2022-11-24 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Decolonisation of knowledge, an imperative of social justice

A webinar organised in partnership with REFIPS

Summary

The primary objective of this webinar in French is to critically reflect on the hierarchy of knowledge that has continued to prevail in health promotion despite the increasing number of voices calling for a paradigm shift in this regard. Decolonising health promotion knowledge and practice is a social justice imperative, as it involves highlighting the political and social mechanisms that contribute to the spread and growth of global health inequalities.

This webinar explores avenues for an integrative and plural co-production of knowledge and practice, supported by rigorous and effective public policies. We will approach the issue by examining two spheres of activity: research and expertise. Knowledge-based (epistemic) dominance in academic research is primarily a systemic issue, as it is most often directly related to funding sources. Similarly, the tendency to favour external expertise to the detriment of local expertise in the South or fragile communities in the North is part of a restrictive and relatively inefficient hierarchical dynamic. In both cases, critical and prospective reflection is required.

Based on a series of four case studies, we propose to reflect on the guidelines that need to be established in order to promote fair and fruitful collaborations between researchers, decision-makers and field actors:

Co-production of knowledge, women’s health and feminism: presentation of a case study in SenegalIntersectoral collaboration between health and education through a health promotion scheme in schools and its implementation in different communities in New CaledoniaDecolonising approaches and practices in health promotion in QuebecThe local dialogue workshop: a method for decolonising knowledge in mother and child health promotion in Haiti.

The presentations will be followed by a discussion initiated by the moderator and open to all participants.

Speakers

The webinar will feature a rich panel of 6 speakers and a moderator.

Mélanie Boivin, Executive Director of the Centre d’amitié autochtone du Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec.Obrillant Damus, Professor at the State Universities of Haiti (Institut Supérieur d’Études et de Recherches en Sciences Sociales) and Quisqueya (Faculty of Education), Associate Professor at the University of Sherbrooke (Centre d’études du religieux contemporain, Faculty of Law), Quebec. National representative of the UNESCO Chair in Education and Health in Haiti.Carmella Fernandes Da Rocha, Head of Strategic Youth Projects, South Province of New Caledonia.Rosalie Diop, sociologist, teacher and researcher at the Institute of Population, Development and Reproductive Health (IPDSR) of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, SenegalChantal Levesque, Programme Manager, Faculty of Continuing Education, Université de MontréalCarine Nassif-Gouin, Programme Manager, Faculty of Continuing Education, Université de Montréal

Moderator:

Carole Faucher, Anthropologist, Researcher, Nordic Center for Conflict Transformation, UNESCO Chair in Education and Health

Registration

Time: 18.00 – 19.00 CET

Language: French

Register for the webinar. Registration is free. After registering, you will receive a login link for the webinar.

Information in French.

Lifelong learning for health webinar 3/3 – Sustainable policy implementation and visibility
2022-11-16 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education (GHE) will co-host this webinar as part of a series aimed at developing a roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities, adopted at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 5) in October 2021. The webinar will take place on 16 November 2022, from 13.00 – 14.30 CEST.

The third and final of a three-part webinar series entitled ‘Lifelong learning for health: Enacting the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities’, it will focus on sustainable policy implementation strategies that involve all stakeholders within and beyond the education and health sectors. The importance of the local community’s participation – and the participation of vulnerable groups in particular – in policy development will also be addressed. There will also be a discussion on mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation and the enhancement of lifelong learning for health (LLLH) policy visibility.

More specifically, the following thematic focuses will be on the agenda:

Thematic Focus 1: Involving stakeholders within and outside of the health sector and coordinating their efforts during LLLH policy implementation; Thematic Focus 2: Ensuring the local community’s participation in LLLH policy implementation, with a focus on vulnerable groups; Thematic Focus 3: Strengthening the monitoring and evaluation of LLLH and enhancing policy visibility.

The webinar will be held in English, French, and Spanish.

For more information and registration.

About the webinar series

This three-part webinar series will result in a final co-created roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities. UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) members will work towards the development of LLLH policies, inventories of initiatives and step-by-step action plans to build a health learning pathway for all. For cities and partners beyond the UNESCO GNLC, the webinars are an opportunity to join a rich exchange on LLLH policy development and initiatives and explore the diverse learning city development processes of UNESCO GNLC members. This could serve as a starting point for further involvement and, in some cases, future membership in the network.

15th European Public Health Conference 2022 - Berlin, Germany
2022-11-09 - 2022-11-12 | Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany
The main theme is: Strengthening health systems: improving population health and being prepared for the unexpected
The subthemes are:

Preparing for the unexpected: lessons learned from Covid-19 and other disasters
Expanding horizons: the role of Europe in global health
Achieving universal health coverage (UHC): reducing health inequity
Harmonizing information systems and health reporting: ensuring function and use
Measuring health system performance: using data to improve population health
Sustaining high quality care: interprofessional training for our clinical and public health workforce
Utilizing the transformational potential of health promotion: accelerating action on SDGs

Abstract submission is open from 1 February until 1 May 2022, 18:00 CET
Registration for the 15th EPH Conference opens 1 April 2022

22nd IAAH European Regional Conference – Youth Development Challenges in the post-COVID-19 era - UNESCO Chair speaking
2022-10-05 09:00 - 2022-10-07 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
The 22nd International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH) European Regional Conference “Youth Development Challenges in the post-COVID-19 era” will be held in Athens, Greece on October 5th-7th, 2022. It is locally organized by the Greek/Hellenic Society for Adolescent Medicine (GSAM) and mainly focuses on youth development during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Topics

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on youth physical and mental health, education, development and overall well-being may raise dilemmas in the management and the control of immediate or long-term consequences. Action through multidisciplinary approaches is required and knowledge of physical and psychosocial aspects, as well as possible aetiological factors, burden of co-morbidities, prevention and treatment options, as well as counselling and support strategies are prerequisites for every effort of controlling the situation and will constitute the main core of the scientific programme. Formal and non-formal education, youth-friendly services and safe digital spaces that help young people make healthier choices and develop healthy relationships, are also a topic of great interest in this conference.

An update on other important Adolescent Medicine topics, such as nutrition, vaccination, skin conditions, contraception, sports medicine, etc. will be presented.

Participants

Medical doctors of different specialties, other health professionals and specialists e.g., psychologists, social workers, educators, dieticians, physical fitness experts, etc. are welcome to participate and contribute to the works of the IAAH conference by exchanging experience and expertise, as well as difficulties encountered in different countries.

Format of the conference

Interactive workshops, symposia, round tables will take place and experts will present key topics in plenary sessions. Oral and poster presentations will highlight novel research ideas. Youth participation during the conference will enrich discussions and debates.

The final programme is now available.

For registration more information please see the conference website.

Lifelong learning for health webinar 2/3 – Spaces, institutions and actors: Towards a health learning pathway for all - UNESCO Chair speaking
2022-09-07 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education (GHE) will co-host this webinar as part of a series aimed at developing a roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities, adopted at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 5) in October 2021. The webinar will take place on 7 September 2022, from 13.00 – 14.30 CEST.

This is the second webinar in a three-part webinar series entitled ‘Lifelong learning for health: Enacting the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities’. This second webinar will look at ways of conducting a lifelong learning for health (LLLH) inventory of resources before developing a city-based action plan that integrates formal, non-formal and informal learning spaces – including institutions – to actualize a multisectoral approach to LLLH.

The webinar will examine ways to enhance the quality of intersectoral collaboration by, for example, overcoming communication hurdles between sectors. Other points to be addressed include the sustainable expansion of a ‘health learning pathway’ and its importance for community resilience.

More specifically, the following thematic focuses will be on the agenda:

Thematic Focus 1: Assessing existing LLLH inventory and resources as a first step towards developing an LLLH action plan; Thematic Focus 2: Developing an action plan for a health learning pathway for all that considers the roles of all stakeholders and integrates formal, non-formal and informal learning spaces across diverse settings and institutions; Thematic Focus 3: Promoting LLLH as a means to sustainably build community resilience in cities.

The webinar will be held in English, French, and Spanish.

For more information and registration.

About the webinar series

This three-part webinar series will result in a final co-created roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities. UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) members will work towards the development of LLLH policies, inventories of initiatives and step-by-step action plans to build a health learning pathway for all. For cities and partners beyond the UNESCO GNLC, the webinars are an opportunity to join a rich exchange on LLLH policy development and initiatives and explore the diverse learning city development processes of UNESCO GNLC members. This could serve as a starting point for further involvement and, in some cases, future membership in the network.

Pre-Summit Ministerial Segment II – Action Track #1: Inclusive; equitable, healthy and safe schools
2022-06-30 10:10 - 23:25 (Europe/Amsterdam)
This session, part of the United Nations Transforming Education Pre-Summit, will discuss the key elements of transformation needed to ensure inclusive, equitable, safe and healthy schools. Through a dynamic intergenerational dialogue between young people and decision-makers, you can hear more about transformation in action and strategic initiatives to deliver transformative education at scale, and reach the most marginalized.

Inclusive transformative education ensures that all learners have unhindered access to quality education, that they are safe and healthy, free from violence and discrimination, and are supported with comprehensive care services within school settings. Transformation is essential to unlock the potential of learners in all their diversity; end harmful gender norms, attitudes and practices; and transform institutions to achieve just, equal, accepting, inclusive, healthy and peaceful societies.

#TransformingEducation / @transformedu

Coming to the pre-Summit? Join us at UNESCO Headquarters in Room I (simultaneous interpretation provided in English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Chinese and Russian)Joining remotely? Watch online here (Simultaneous interpretation provided in English, Spanish and French)More information about the event hereInterested in knowing more about Action Track #1? Visit the Transforming Education Knowledge Hub.

Global Community Health Annual Workshop 2nd edition
2022-06-28 11:30 - 2022-06-30 15:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
The second edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop will take place from 28 till 30 June 2022.

The theme for this years workshop is: How to build resilient communities for times of crisis.

The interactive workshop will take place online and is free of charge. Practitioners, students, policy makers and researchers from all over the world are welcome to join. More information about this second workshop can be found on the dedicated webpage.

The second edition of the Global Community health Annual Workshop is organised by the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education, EHESP School of Public Health and the International Union for Health Promotion and Education IUHPE.

Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) 10th Anniversary Hybrid Conference
2022-06-28 09:00 - 2022-06-30 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Join the community of practitioners, scholars, activists, and students committed to improving practices in crucial domains of society.

4 conference strands:

Social justice: creating social equity by confronting instituional and educational injustice
Youth action: research (ypar) engaging youth in critical inquiry regarding their lived expriences
Knowledge democracy: challenging the colonization of knowledge
Practitioner research: positioning teachers as autonomous professionals and change agents

Proposal submission is open until 1 April 2022
More information

National Association of School Nurses (NASN) 2022 - UNESCO Chair speaking
2022-06-28 - 2022-07-01 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Atlanta, United States
Annual Conference NASN2022
Connecting Health Equity and Student Success
June 28 – July 1, 2022 | Atlanta, Georgia

NASN2022 Conference Learning Outcomes
As a result of participating in this educational activity, learners will be able to

Identify three emerging student health trends that impact your student population and a resource that can be used to learn more on those topics.
Articulate three new evidence-based practices learned at conference that will be used to promote student health, social and academic success, or healthy communities.
Identify three potential new partners/partnerships to collaborate with to advance student health and the role of the school nurse as a health leader in the school setting.
Distinguish two ways current practice of care, data collection, or policy development differs from the information presented at conference and develop a plan to change at least one practice.
Apply one new concept regarding advocacy and data that can be used to articulate to educators and decision-makers about the role of the school nurse in the 21st century.

Lifelong learning for health webinar 1/3 - Conceptualizing, raising awareness and developing policies - UNESCO Chair speaking
2022-06-01 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education (GHE) will co-host this webinar as part of a series aimed at developing a roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities, adopted at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 5) in October 2021.

The first in a three-part webinar series entitled ‘Lifelong learning for health: Enacting the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities’, it will look at ways of conceptualizing lifelong learning for health (LLLH) so that it can be adapted to different city contexts. Raising awareness of the importance of cities for spearheading LLLH initiatives, including initiatives promoting health literacy and citizenship for health, will also be addressed. In addition, the webinar will explore the plausibility of establishing city-level intersectoral taskforces who oversee LLLH policy.

More specifically, the following thematic focuses will be on the agenda:

Thematic Focus 1: Conceptualizing LLLH in order to build policies that recognize local contexts and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; Thematic Focus 2: Raising awareness of and garnering private and public support for cities to facilitate LLLH promotion, including for health literacy and citizenship for health; Thematic Focus 3: Establishing intersectoral taskforces to initiate and oversee LLLH policy development.

The webinar will be held in English, French and Spanish.

Symposium Comprehensive sexuality education
2022-06-01 09:00 - 2022-06-03 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
A global learning and sharing symposium on health, well-being, values and equity

The Global Partnership Forum on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), gathered by UNESCO and UNFPA, aims to consolidate knowledge management and share strategic information, good practice and research to inform stronger programming on CSE. In order to take this agenda forward, UNESCO and UNFPA, on behalf of the Global Partnership Forum on CSE, will organise a three-day international virtual symposium from 1-3 June 2022.The symposium will cover three overarching themes:

Day 1: Social, cultural and political environment of CSEDay 2: People’s participation and involvement in CSEDay 3: Processes and methods of teaching CSE

The symposium will be held in English, with simultaneous translation into French and Spanish.

Registration closes on Monday 23 May 2022.More information on the symposium
