We are pleased to invite you to the webinar “Stronger together: empowering our communities through health promotion”. The interactive webinar on health promotion, health education and community action in Nigeria will feature the launch of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education in Nigeria. The online webinar will take place on Thursday 17 September 2026 from 10.30 – 12.00 WAT / 11.30 – 13.00 CET.
The main aim for this webinar is to introduce the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education and highlight the work of the team in Nigeria. The webinar is organised in collaboration with the Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and Behaviour Modification Media.
Registration
If you would like to attend the online webinar you can register here: https://y.uca.fr/register17Sept2026. After registration you will receive the link to login.
Programme
Welcome and opening prayer
Yetunde O. John-Akinola is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. She is the National representative of Nigeria of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education. She has more than fifteen years’ experience as a researcher working with both non-governmental and academic research groups. She has been involved in various researches including school health, child and adolescent health, NCDs prevention, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. Her focus encompasses child participation in the research process and children’s participation in school, health behaviour of adolescents and young people, adolescent and young people’s health and wellbeing and parents’ participation in school.
Welcome on behalf of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education
Didier Jourdan is the co-chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education and the head of the WHO Collaborating Centre n Global Health & Education. He is a Professor of Education Sciences, former Director of the ESPE and Vice-President of Clermont Auvergne University (France). He has served as Chair of the Prevention Commission of the High Council for Public Health in France and as Director of Prevention at the National Public Health Agency. Didier Jourdan is Vice-President of the IUHPE (International Union for Health Promotion and Education) and a member of the Governing Board of the IITE (UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education).
Nicola Gray is the co-chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education. She is a Reader in Medicines and Health at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Registered as a pharmacist in 1991, she has worked in hospital, community and academic practice. She is a Trustee of the UK Association for Young People’s Health and Vice-President for Europe of the International Association for Adolescent Health. She has published a number of papers and opinion pieces regarding young people’s health, health literacy, the safe reopening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges for children and young people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Introduction of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education
Goof Buijs is the manager of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education. After finishing his Master study in Human Nutrition his first job was teaching health science at the Amsterdam teacher trainer institute. At the Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion NIGZ he specialized in school health promotion, by introducing the national health promoting school programme in the Netherlands and leading several European projects including managing the Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) network from 2007 until 2017. His specialisation is bringing health and education sectors together. He is an experienced networker, expert in co-creation, trainer, and organizer of local and global events. He supports cooperation among people, focusing on everyone’s talents and uniqueness. He is an environmental activist for most of his life.
Introduction of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education in Nigeria
Yetunde O. John-Akinola is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. She is the National representative of Nigeria of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education. She has more than fifteen years’ experience as a researcher working with both non-governmental and academic research groups. She has been involved in various researches including school health, child and adolescent health, NCDs prevention, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. Her focus encompasses child participation in the research process and children’s participation in school, health behaviour of adolescents and young people, adolescent and young people’s health and wellbeing and parents’ participation in school.
Introduction of the Youth Panel of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education
Representatives of the Youth Panel of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education in Nigeria.
Closure
