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17
Jun
2021
Tools to assess Girl-friendly schools, Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Youth-friendly Health Services

Tools to assess Girl-friendly schools, Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Youth-friendly Health Services

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) in partnership with the Her Choice Programme has developed tools in English and French to assess Girl-friendly Schools (GFS), Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and Youth-Friendly Health Services (YFHS).The development and evaluation of the use of the tools has been funded through two small grants of Share-Net International. The tools have been implemented in the Her Choice programme countries in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Comprehensive Sexuality Education tool: This tool allows for scoring a CSE intervention along different dimensions with a view to assessing the degree to which an intervention can be considered ‘comprehensive.‘

Girl-friendly school tool: This tool scores different dimensions of schools to assess whether or not they can be considered girl friendly.

Youth-friendly Health Services tool: This tool scores different dimensions of health services to assess whether they can be considered youth friendly.

For more information and to download the tools.

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14
Jun
2021
Global Community Health Annual Workshop – register now

Global Community Health Annual Workshop – register now

The UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health & Education and EHEPS invite all those interested in promoting health and equity at a community level to the first edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop that will take place on 6, 7 and 8 July 2021.

The main aim of the workshop is to explore the diverse practices of community health worldwide, learn from them, and apply those newly acquired skills and knowledge to current/future projects. We will have participants from all over the world and welcome all those involved in health promotion, prevention, healthcare and social care services.

The programme will consist of a daily 3-hour main block reserved for lectures, satellite sessions (for discussion in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese) and time for questions. Beside the main block participants will attend two blocks of 2-hour group work sessions.

We are honoured to have some excellent contributors from all over the world, joined by voices from the field and a number of case studies. A preview of the contributors:

  • Professor Didier Jourdan, Chair holder UNESCO Chair and head of the WHO Collaborating Center Global Health & Education, France
  • Professor Yifei Hu, Department of Child and Adolescent health and Maternal Care, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, China
  • George Arrey, director Health Promotion South Africa Trust, South Africa
  • Viola Cassetti, Public Health Consultant, Spain
  • Dr. David Houeto, Associate Professor, Health Promotion, University of Parakou, Benin

This year’s course will be online and FREE of charge. Participants and tutors will learn from the diversity in community health practices. Active participation will be rewarded with a certificate provided by the UNESCO Chair.

More information and registration

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07
Jun
2021
Save the date: exclusive preview of a new global status report about comprehensive sexuality education

Save the date: exclusive preview of a new global status report about comprehensive sexuality education

The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education: An exclusive preview of a new global status report

Thursday 24th June at 8h Mexico City ‖ 9h New York ‖ 13h Dakar ‖ 15h Paris ‖ 16h Nairobi ‖ 20h Bangkok

UNESCO, together with UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and WHO, invites you to an exclusive preview of a forthcoming global status report on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education, A global status report.

CSE is widely recognized as a critical intervention in promoting the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents. But how far advanced are countries in delivering sexuality education in schools and how comprehensive is it? The upcoming report highlights where progress is being made and where critical gaps remain.

Held in the lead up to the Generation Equality Forum, the virtual event will spotlight the findings from the report, and reveal how countries are progressing in their journeys towards CSE. It will highlight the important contribution CSE makes to gender equality and other diverse outcomes, and advocate for national action to bring CSE to all learners across the world.

The event will be available in English, French and Spanish. Please share widely with your networks. Registration here.

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01
Jun
2021
Global survey on the safe reopening of schools available in 6 languages

Global survey on the safe reopening of schools available in 6 languages

The global survey on the safe reopening of schools in now available in Arabic, English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. You are invited to complete the survey and to share the survey within your network. The aim of the survey is to gather the experiences and opinions of education and health professionals about the processes in place in their countries and territories to reopen schools safely during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to keep them open.

The survey explores the public health measures that have been put in place in schools; communication of guidance at national and/or local level, and the facilitators or barriers to safe reopening. The survey should take 10-20 minutes to complete. It is a follow-up of the survey which was conducted in May/June 2020.

The survey is conducted by the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center in Global Health & Education with the support of its consortium partners from ASCD, CHAIN, Education International, EUPHA Child and Adolescent Public Health, EUPHA Health Promotion, GCU London, IAAH and their Young Professionals’ Network, IUHPE, NCD Child, UCA and the SHE Network.

More information and access to the survey links  

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31
May
2021
Registration 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion – IUHPE 2022 is open

Registration 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion – IUHPE 2022 is open

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

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20
May
2021
Webinar Dynamics in School Health Promotion – 25 May 2021 14.00 CEST

Webinar Dynamics in School Health Promotion – 25 May 2021 14.00 CEST

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:

  1. How can you deal with studying the dynamics in school health promotion?
  2. How do countries in the European region deal with the dynamics in school health promotion?
  3. How does this work contribute to the future of school health promotion (research)?

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.

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20
May
2021
Final programme IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion

Final programme IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion

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:

  • Tuesday 15 June 2021, 11.30-13.00 – Workshop 6: Principles for health promotion and health literacy in schools as foundations for solidarity and public health
  • Wednesday 16 June 2021, 9.00-10.00 – Plenary session , Reinforcing Health Promotion’s capacity to address change in Europe
    Speakers:
    • Caroline Costongs, EuroHealthNet
    • Didier Jourdan, UNESCO Chair and Head of the WHO Collaborating Center “Global Health & Education”  
  • Wednesday 16 June 2021, 16.00-17.00 – Celebrating 70 years of IUHPE’s role in advancing global health promotion
    • Panellist – Didier Jourdan, UNESCO Chair and Head of the WHO Collaborating Center “Global Health & Education”   
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11
May
2021
11 May 2021 – School Health Promotion in Latin America: Lessons Learned

11 May 2021 – School Health Promotion in Latin America: Lessons Learned

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:

  1. What has been the contribution of School Health Promotion in promoting development and equity in health for children and adolescents in Latin America?
  2. What have been the advances, the distinctive/potential components and the contribution of the networks on school health promotion in Latin America?
  3. What political paths, programmatic actions and other opportunities should shape the future agenda of the Latin American School Health Promotion Movement?

To participate: Zoom link.

This webinar will also be broadcast live on our YouTube channel

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11
May
2021
Call for conference papers: Social Sciences and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Call for conference papers: Social Sciences and the COVID-19 Pandemic

State of Knowledge and Proposals for Action

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: 

  1. Effects of the pandemic on the human body and the notion of the person
  2. Effects of COVID19 on local community practices and representations
  3. Effects of the pandemic at the level of national institutions
  4. Effects of the pandemic on migration, and indirectly globalisation

 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.

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06
May
2021
Schools for healthy lives, not for corporate interests

Schools for healthy lives, not for corporate interests

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 whole correspondence

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

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