IUHPE is happy to confirm the opening of registrations to the 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion – IUHPE 2022, being held in Montreal, Canada, and online, from May 15 to May 19, 2022. Louise Potvin, Professor at the University of Montreal School of Public Health and Director of the Public Health Research Centre (CReSP) is inviting you to register now! More information
Implementing the Health Promoting School (HPS) approach and creating change in the whole school system can be challenging, since schools are dynamic organisations. Each school operates in its own specific context and health promoting interventions should fit to that unique context. Consequently, this indicates a variety of choices when implementing the HPS approach, flexibility is thus needed. This webinar focuses on these dynamics in school health promotion.
Speakers are Dr. Nina Bartelink, Dr. Kathelijne Bessems, Prof. Stef Kremers of Maastricht University. They will address the following questions:
This webinar is organised by the Schools for Health in Europe Network Foundation (SHE), the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education and Maastricht University.
The webinar will take place on 25 May 2021 from 14.00 – 15.00 CEST.
Join the webinar. This webinar will also be broadcast live on our YouTube channel.
The 11th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion (IUHPE 2021) and the 6th International Conference on Salutogenesis will be held from June 14 to 18, 2021, in online format to facilitate the participation of professionals from different countries. IUHPE is also celebrating its 70th anniversary. This important milestone will be the focus of a special event scheduled for 16 June, coinciding with both conferences. The final programme of the conferences can now be found on the conference website.
The UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education is involved in the following events:
On 11 May 2021, 17.00 – 18.00 CEST, 11.00 – 12.00 AST, the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center Global Health & Education, the University of Puerto Rico, the Universidad Industrial de Santander, and FLACSO Argentina will organise the webinar: School Health Promotion in Latin America: Lessons Learned. The webinar will be held in Spanish.
During this webinar the speakers will reflect on the lessons learned in the past 35 years with regard to health promotion in schools in Latin America. The speakers are Blanca Patricia Mantilla Uribe from the Institute Proinapsa of the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia and Karina Cimmino of FLACSO Argentina. They will explore the following questions:
To participate: Zoom link.
This webinar will also be broadcast live on our YouTube channel
Colloquium proposed by the French Presidency of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee Bureau – Management Of Social Transformations (MOST) – UNESCO
Life sciences have mobilised globally to understand and fight the COVID-19 virus. Hence, the French Presidency of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee Bureau – Management of Social Transformations (MOST) proposes to organise a colloquium and explore the broader social science perspective on the pandemic nearly two years after it started.
Submissions are invited that represent an original study (not previously published) and explore in diverse ways the impact of Covid-19 from social sciences lenses. Submissions must include an abstract consisting of 800 (minimum) – 1000 (maximum) words.
All manuscripts should focus on one of the four following sub-themes:
A proposal may be submitted in French or English language.
Abstract due date: 15 July 2021 at 9pm (GMT-5)
Full paper due date: 30 September 2021 at 9pm (GMT-5)
The conference will take place on Thursday 21 October and Friday 22 October 2021 at UNESCO Paris / by videoconference.
ublished by the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health in May 2021
This correspondence was recently published by The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health[1] in response to the Viewpoint: Supporting every school to become a foundation for healthy lives[2], by Prof. Didier Jourdan and colleagues.
The authors welcome the call by Didier Jourdan and colleagues for schools to become a foundation for healthy lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has focused the world’s attention on the institutions that influence health, including schools. The pandemic has exposed and deepened the long-standing and inequitable ways in which wider social conditions can undermine public health. Achieving a healthier and fairer future depends on social determinants that promote the health of all people. Schools and education are intricately linked to health, equity, and life opportunities. They echo the view of Didier Jourdan and colleagues that health professionals have an important role in supporting educational institutions to promote health and in advocating for structural change in the interests of children and adolescents.
Read the article by Didier Jourdan and colleagues
[1] van Schalkwyk, M.C.I., Knai, C., Jackson, N., Maani, N. & Petticrew, M. (2021). Schools for healthy lives, not for corporate interests. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00097-3
[2] Jourdan, D., Gray, N. J., Barry, M. M., Caffe, S., Cornu, C., Diagne, F., El Hage, F., Farmer, M. Y., Slade, S., Marmot, M., & Sawyer, S. M. (2021). Supporting every school to become a foundation for healthy lives. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30316-3
In preparation for the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 5), the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and Yeonsu City, Republic of Korea, are commissioning background papers on the three themes related to global health education and emergency response. These papers will contribute to an enhanced understanding of the ways in which lifelong learning policies and practices contribute towards the development of healthy and resilient learning cities.
The papers will focus on the following themes:
UIL is seeking to recruit senior researchers (authors) specializing in lifelong learning, with a focus on urban and health-related policies.
Deadline to indicate your interest is 10 May 2021. See attached documents for the specific requirements.
Research-proposal-for-ICLC-5_SHORT-final
More information on UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities
About Didier Jourdan