Month: March 2023

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:

1. What should be the key competences of School Health Promotion?
2. How to articulate School Health Promotion curriculum mainstreaming initiatives?
3. 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.

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

• 10:00 – 11:00 Puerto Rico
• 11:00 – 12:00 Brazil
• 09:00 – 10:00 Washington, DC
• 15:00 – 16:00 CET

Link to register.

More information in Spanish.

Webinar series

This webinar is part of series of webinars “Towards a new agenda for School Health Promotion in Latin America and Spain”. The following webinars are planned:

Date	Topic off the webinar
17 November 2022	Towards a regional agenda for School Health Promotion in Latin America.
16 February 2023	Assessment, critical analysis and opportunities to strengthen research in School Health Promotion for children and adolescents in Latin America.
16 March 2023	The curricular experience in School Health Promotion.
11 May 2023	The Promotion and Education of Comprehensive Sexual Health in educational systems.
28 September 2023	The importance of inserting the gender perspective in educational systems and school curricula.

We are pleased to announce the release of the 3rd volume of the Global Handbook of health Promotion Research: Doing Health Promotion Research[1].

A global collaborative initiative

This publication is the result of a global collaborative initiative, launched in May 2020 by the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education and the Canada Research Chair in Community Approaches and Health Inequalities, to structure the field of health promotion research.

Its ambition is to map and characterise the research practices of those involved in the production and sharing of knowledge in health promotion.

The Handbook consists of three distinct volumes:

1. Mapping health promotion research[2] (published in 2022)
2. Framing health promotion research (a systematic description of the epistemological and ethical framework of health promotion research) (to be published in 2024)
3. Doing health promotion research (a compilation of health promotion research paradigms, approaches and methods). 

A practical reference tool

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[1] Jourdan, D., & Potvin, L. (Éds.). (2023). Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 3 : Doing Health Promotion Research. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20401-2

[2] Potvin, L., & Jourdan, D. (Éds.). (2022). Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1 : Mapping Health Promotion Research. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97212-7

The first edition of the International Barometer of Education Staff (or I-BEST) was launched in 2021, after 18 months of a global pandemic that required the urgent collection of updated data on the state of personnel as close to the field as possible. With the participation of 8,000 teachers, the results of the first edition provided an unprecedented international comparison of six territories on three continents.

Designed as a bi-annual survey, the second edition of the I-BEST will be conducted from February to June 2023.

Following its success, new countries have expressed their interest in participating in this second edition. So in 2023, Argentina, Canada (excluding Quebec), Cameroon, Spain, Japan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Kingdom, Switzerland (Cantons of Vaud and Geneva) and Taipei will join France, Morocco, Francophone Belgium and Quebec, which had already participated in 2021.

In addition, this new edition will be open to all education staff in addition to teachers and will provide updated data on: working conditions, physical and mental health, work-life balance, and the impact of digital tools. 

The results will be published in autumn 2023 and will be accompanied by recommendations for the public authorities.

Follow the news of the I-BEST barometer via this dedicated link.

The survey is an initiative of the Education and Solidarity Network (ESN) and the MGEN Public Health Foundation. It is part of a partnership involving Education International (EI) and the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education with the support of MGEN.