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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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06
May
2021
Fifth International Conference on Learning Cities – Call for researchers

Fifth International Conference on Learning Cities – Call for researchers

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:

  1. Understanding education for health, mental health and well-being in the context of lifelong learning
  2. Strengthening community resilience and learning systems in cities
  3. Transforming cities into spaces for health and well-being

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.

5ICLC_CallForPapers

Research-proposal-for-ICLC-5_SHORT-final

More information on UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities

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22
Apr
2021
Schooling during COVID-19: recommendations from the European Technical Advisory Group for schooling during COVID-19

Schooling during COVID-19: recommendations from the European Technical Advisory Group for schooling during COVID-19

Recently the recommendations from the WHO European Region Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic were published. The recommendations represent the work of the TAG between October 2020 and March 2021.

The recommendations were considered at a WHO ministerial meeting on 8 December 2020, after which they were reviewed and updated. The recommendations are endorsed by the TAG to represent the best available evidence and expert advice on safe schooling. Didier Jourdan, chairholder of the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education was a member of the TAG.

The TAG has formulated recommendations of the following eight key issues:

  1. Keeping schools open is a key objective
  2. Testing strategy in the school setting
  3. Effectiveness of applied risk-mitigation measures on infection control
  4. Educational outcomes, mental and social well-being
  5. Children in vulnerable situations
  6. Changes in the school environment that are likely to be of overall benefit to infection control AND child health
  7. Children’s and adolescents’ involvement in decision making
  8. Vaccination strategies with the purpose of maintaining education as a societal good

Read the recommendations

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22
Apr
2021
24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion – Call for abstracts

24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion – Call for abstracts

The call for abstracts for the 24th IUHPE World Conference on health Promotion – IUHPE 2022 is now open. The conference theme is “Promoting policies for health, well-being and equity”. The conference will be held Montréal (Québec) Canada and in hybrid format from 15 to 19 May 2022. Abstract submissions can be made in English, French and Spanish.

Abstracts can be submitted in eight different formats: 1) symposium, 2) workshop, 3) research oral/poster presentation, 4) innovation in policy and practice oral/poster presentation, 5) round table discussion, 6) alternative showing/new technology, 7) alternative showing/art, and 8) lunch with an author. Further information on each of these formats. Participatory, collaborative and non-traditional session formats will be given priority in the selection process.

Registration and hotel reservations for the 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion will open in May. More information on the conference website.

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22
Apr
2021
Global Community Health Annual Workshop – First edition

Global Community Health Annual Workshop – First edition

The UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health and Education invites 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 welcome all those involved in health promotion, prevention, healthcare and social care services.

This year’s course will be online and FREE of charge. Participants and tutors will learn from the diversity in community health practices.

More information and registration

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30
Mar
2021
What does the evidence tell us about keeping schools open safely – High level ministerial meeting UNESCO

What does the evidence tell us about keeping schools open safely – High level ministerial meeting UNESCO

As the world enters a second year living with the COVID-19 pandemic, half of the global student population is still affected by full or partial school closures. To mobilize and support learning continuity, UNESCO established the Global Education Coalition which today counts 160 members working around three central themes: Gender, connectivity and teachers.

On 29 March 2021, UNESCO convened a high-level ministerial meeting “One year into COVID: Prioritizing education recovery to avoid a generational catastrophe” to take stock of lessons learnt, the greatest risks facing education today and strategies to leave no learner behind. During this meeting, Professor Didier Jourdan, chair holder of the UNESCO Chair and head of the WHO Collaborating Center Global Health and Education, was invited to present a state-of-the-art review of the evidence about keeping schools open safely.

Professor Jourdan presented three solid facts:

  • schools should be among the last places to close and first to reopen
  • school reopening, with comprehensive infection prevention and control measures in place, and when the community infection levels were low or moderate, did not increase community transmission
  • the mechanisms of implementation in schools involve institutional, contextual and personal factors

Read the transcript of the presentation

More information about the high level ministerial meeting

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