UNESCO Chair GHE

Greek national launch event UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education
2024-04-16 10:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
The team of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education is delighted to invite you to its Greek national launch event. The launch event will take place on Tuesday 16 April 2024 from 10.00 until 14.00 EEST at the “P. & A. Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital Auditorium in Athens, Greece and online.

The theme of the launch event is “Advocating for Adolescent Health”.

The event is held under the auspices of: the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports and the Ministry of Health.

In collaboration with: the Greek Society for Adolescent Health/Medicine (G.S.A.M), “FOR Adolescent Health” Scientific Organization, “THALPOS” – Mental Health, the National Healthy Cities Network World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE)

Local organizers are: MSc «Str. of Developmental and Adolescent Health», Medical School of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens N.K.U.A. and Adolescent Health Unit (A.H.U.), Second Dpt of Pediatrics N.K.U.A., “P. & A. Kyriakou Children’s Hospital”

With the support of: the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education and LIFELINE Hellas.

Registration and Zoom link

To register for the event.

The Zoom link for online participation.

For the full programme please see the UNESCO Chair website.

SOPHE’s 75th Annual Conference - UNESCO Chair speaking
2024-03-19 08:00 - 2024-03-21 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, 315 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, Missouri, 63102, United States
Gateway to Health Equity: Global solutions to strengthen health education and promotion capacity.

SOPHE’s 75th Annual Conference is an inclusive opportunity for anyone who plays a role in the health education profession. The annual conference offers various learning experiences and opportunities to connect with colleagues and friends.

Educational Tracks

Enhancing global health education and promotion through culturally competent programs for historically marginalized communities

Providing global health education and promotion interventions for behavioral and mental health

Preparing health educators to work in a global society

Developing health education and promotion solutions for proactive health communication in a global society

2nd Edition of the International Forum on Bullying and Cyberbullying - UNESCO Chair speaking
2024-02-06 09:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Schools should be places where everyone can learn and grow, safe, inclusive and welcoming environments. But the facts show that this is not always the case; in 144 countries globally, many children and adolescents reported being physically and verbally assaulted at least once during the course of the year. This violence, this harassment, has serious consequences both in the short and long term, threatening the psychological, social and physical integrity of students in relation to the school and the social fabric that surrounds them, creating the conditions as also shown in the UNESCO report “Beyond the Numbers: Ending Violence and Harassment in Schools,” published in 2019, to be twice as likely to suffer from insomnia, sense of isolation or suicidal thoughts. Even more alarming today when considering the ‘social media era: because nowadays bullying and harassment no longer stop at the school gates, but continue and spread online. Increased knowledge about these phenomena and efforts both nationally and globally to reduce their risks are crucial in both the school and social spheres in order to create all those favorable conditions for creating a family, social and school climate and for both the development and learning of children and young people.

The 2nd edition of the International Forum on Bullying and Cyberbullying is organised by the Observatory on Bullying and Youth Discomfort of the CREG – University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Municipality of Viterbo, the National Union of Juvenile Chambers and the Libra ETS Foundation.

06.02.2024 – dalle ore 09.30 – International Forum at the Sala Regia of the Municipality of Viterbo;

07.02.2024 – dalle ore 10.30 alle ore 10.40 – Nationwide Flash Mob ” Let’s make noise against bullying” with educational institutions of all levels and universities

Schools4Health seminar: "Innovating health and education: Because children and youth who feel better, do better”
2024-01-31 09:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
You can register for the Schools4Health seminar “Innovating health and education: Because children and youth who feel better, do better” on 31 January 2024. The seminar will be organised under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of European Union, and will take place in Brussels.

Schools play an important role in shaping children and youth’s academic, physical, mental, and social development, with lasting impacts across their life course. Investments in state-of-the-art Health Promoting School approaches are a key entry point to cultivating healthier educational and social environments.

This seminar will explore how different stakeholders in policy and practice, across levels of governance and sectors, can work better together to support investments in whole-school approaches and enabling policy conditions.

The UNESCO Chair is one of the partners in this project.

UK launch event UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education
2023-11-28 14:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London) | University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
The team of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education is delighted to invite you to its UK launch event. The launch event will take place on Tuesday 28 November 2023 from 14.00 until 19.30 GMT – in hybrid mode – at the University of Huddersfield and online. The UNESCO Chair is co-hosted by the University of Huddersfield in the UK and the University of Clermont Auvergne in France.

Lifelong Learning and Literacy: Intersectoral Working in Health and Education to Support Wellbeing and Reduce Inequities

The programme for the launch event consists of:

14.00 – 16.00 GMT Panel session: introduction to the activities of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education, the four flagship programmes, with a focus on national and regional activities.17.00 – 18.00 GMTReception18.00 – 19.30 GMTPublic lecture: Health Literacy: What every Patient and Parent should know. With Nicola Gray, Co-chair UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education, Reader in Medicines and Health, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield

Register now

Intersectoral working among education and health: from words into actions – session during the 13th European Congress on Global Health
2023-11-22 17:15 - 18:45 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Vredenburgkade 11, Utrecht, 3511WC, Netherlands
During the European Congress on Global Health UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, JOGG, EuroHealthNet, Universiteit Maastricht and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam organise an interactive session: “Intersectoral working among education and health: from words into actions”.

The COVID pandemic has highlighted the importance of intersectoral working between health and education sectors. Yet they still have their own objectives and speak their own language. We will share good examples of intersectoral working in school and community settings. By the end of this session participants will have practical ideas to improve intersectoral collaboration in their own work.

The session will take place on 22 November 2023, from 17.15 – 18.45 CET. Do you want to participate in the session? Please register for the #ECTMIH2023 conference: https://www.ectmih2023.nl/

The 13th European Congress on Global Health (ECTMIH2023) - UNESCO Chair speaking
2023-11-20 08:00 - 2023-11-23 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Vredenburgkade 11, Utrecht, 3511WC, Netherlands
ECTMIH 2023 focus: Shaping the future of equitable and sustainable planetary health.

Our planet and its climate are changing as a result of human actions.

Planetary health reflects the interconnectedness of human health and climate change in a rapidly changing environment and is the over-arching theme and common thread running through the ECTMIH 2023 programme.

Our aim at ECTMIH 2023 is to accelerate the understanding, appreciation, and connections between tropical medicine, global health, and the urgent field of planetary health. We will build on global health traditions to emphasize the importance of health equity and universal health coverage to ensure that all populations – and especially those in low(er) resource settings – have optimal chances of health and wellbeing.

Crosscutting themes supporting this central planetary health focus will include prevention, diagnostic innovation, treatment and care; public and community health; Universal Health Coverage and health equity; health policy and the role of social sciences in global health research.

With this in mind, ECTMIH 2023 will:

act as a catalyst in the transition and change we need to achieve equitable, just, and sustainable societies

encourage the active participation of researchers from low and middle income countries, global thinkers, policy and decision makers

stimulate debate on the role of cooperation agencies and of scientific institutes in all areas of global health

UNESCO Chair session

On Wednesday 22 November from 17.15 until 18.45 the UNESO Chair and partners will organise the session: “Intersectoral working among education and health: from words into actions”.

The Covid pandemic has highlighted the importance of intersectoral working between health and education sectors – yet they still have their own objectives and speak their own language.

During this session we will look at the importance of intersectoral working between health and education and especially how this can be put into practice. We will share good examples of intersectoral working in school and community settings and on implementation in a co-creative way contributing to social change. Participants are invited to share their experiences. By the end of this session participants will have practical ideas to improve intersectoral collaboration in their own work.

5th MENA Region Adolescent Health Conference
2023-11-19 08:00 - 2023-11-22 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
The Arab Coalition for Adolescent Health and Medicine, in partnership with the Kuwait Institute for Medical Specializations, will be holding the 5th MENA Region Adolescent Health Conference in Kuwait City on 19-22 November 2023 with the theme “Engage Adolescents: get the best out of them“.

Oversees School Health Nurses Association conference - UNESCO Chair speaking
2023-11-10 09:00 - 2023-11-11 18:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel, Brussels Airport 1930, Brussel, Belgium

16th European Public Health Conference 2023 - Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity
2023-11-08 08:00 - 2023-11-11 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD), Dublin, Ireland
The main theme is: ‘Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity’.

Subthemes are:

Gender health at the margins or the centre?

Digital Health

Workforce and Skills

Climate Emergency

Food policy, global health and the SDGs

Abstract submission for the in-person 16th EPH Conference 2023 is open from 1 February until 1 May 2023.

Registration opens 1 April 2023.

First announcement

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.
