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07
Apr
2025
Webinar School is more than a place to learn – 22 June 2025

Webinar School is more than a place to learn – 22 June 2025

School is more than a place to learn: An intersectoral assessment of adolescent well-being prior to and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO European Region

13:00 – 14:00 GMT, Wednesday 22th June 2025

Chaired by: Professor Ingrid Wolfe OBE, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Population Health, Consultant Paediatric Population Medicine, Kings College, London

Speakers: 

  • Dr. Nicola Gray, Co-Chair, UNESCO Chair ‘Global Health & Education’
  • Mary Cronin, Specialty Registrar in Public Health
  • Dr. Maximilian Limburg, Specialty Registrar in Public Health

A webinar supporting the development of a new WHO/UNICEF regional strategy for Child and Adolescent Health in Europe and Central Asia, as part of our Public Health in Practice Special Issue

This webinar will present a research study that examined changes in adolescent well-being across the WHO European Region following the Covid-19 pandemic. Adolescent well-being was assessed using the UN H6+ framework, which includes: 1) Good health and optimal nutrition, 2) Connectedness, positive values, and societal contribution, 3) Safety and a supportive environment, 4) Learning, competence, education, skills, and employability, and 5) Agency and resilience. Secondary analysis of data from two large datasets concerning adolescents, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Survey and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), revealed a decline in well-being across European countries from 2018 (pre-pandemic) to 2022 (post-pandemic). Additionally, the study highlighted a significant widening of educational inequalities in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Key Issues for Debate:

  1. How can we prevent existing inequalities in educational attainment from widening?
  2. How can we improve our data collection strategies about school closure impact for future health crises?
  3. What would an intersectoral strategy on adolescent well-being look like, to minimize the impact of future emergency measures?

More information and registration

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04
Apr
2025
5th edition Global Community Health Annual Workshop – Register now

5th edition Global Community Health Annual Workshop – Register now

On 10, 11 and 12 June 2025 the 5th edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop will take place as an online event. This year’s workshop theme is ‘Building healthy, fair and climate-smart communities: addressing commercial determinants of health’.

During the workshop the focus will be on the impact of the commercial determinants of health on community health and how public health actions can respond to them. Different initiatives with a special focus on participatory methods will be explored looking at conflict of interests and possible co-benefits of private sector action for better health on the community level. This will also be the capacity building focus for the participants.

The Global Community Health Annual Workshop provides a space where community health and health promotion practitioners and policy makers can improve their skills and where researchers can gain in capacities to conduct community-based participatory research.

Format of the workshop

The global workshop will run during 3 days, 3,5 contact hours per day. To accommodate participants from all different time zones around the world, the workshop will be offered twice a day.

  • Block 1 will run from 10.00 – 13.30 Paris; 16.00 – 19.30 Beijing; 18.00 – 21.30 Melbourne.
  • Block 2 will run from 16.00 – 19.30 Paris; 7.00 – 10.30 Los Angeles; 11.00 – 14.30 Buenos Aires

It uses an interactive format ensuring active participation through a series of online lectures, combined with community heath hubs.

Community health hubs

These community health hubs (smaller working groups) acknowledge our diversity and cultural dimensions and are offered in different languages including English, French, Spanish and other languages depending on the availability of facilitators. During the community health hubs participants have the opportunity to share experiences, build their regional and global networks and work on their individual assignments.

We encourage participants to gather locally and organise their own local community health hubs. They can follow the central lectures online together and then continue their discussions live in the local community health hubs.

Assignment

Participants will be asked to submit an individual assignment, which can be a reflexion on their main learnings of the CHW or a description of a community health initiative they are involved in or know of. Each assignment will be assessed and published on the Chair website, for future reference. After approval of the assignment participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Language

The online lectures are held in the English and French language. This year we will provide translation into 50+ languages, including English, French, Spanish, Persian, Arabic and Chinese. We will use a translation app based on AI during the plenary sessions.

Registration

This interactive workshop will take place online and is free of charge. Practitioners, students, policy makers and researcher from different backgrounds from all over the world are welcome to join. You can register by completing the online registration form. Registration will close on Tuesday 3 June 2025, 16.00 CEST.

Organisers

Organisers are the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, EHESP School of Public Health, International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), Réseau Francophone International Pour la Promotion de la Sante (RÉFIPS), European Public Health Association (EUPHA), University of Clermont Auvergne and Huddersfield University.

For more information about the workshop, please visit the dedicated webpage.

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04
Apr
2025
8 April 2025 – Popular Education and Education Policies in the Field of Health

8 April 2025 – Popular Education and Education Policies in the Field of Health

Time: 8.00 – 9.30 Mexico, 9.00 – 10.30 Colombia, 10.00 – 11.30 Puerto Rico, 11.00 – 12.30 Brazil, 16.00 – 17.30 France

Language: The webinar will be held in Spanish and Portuguese. Translation will be available in 50+ languages, including English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. We will use a translation app based on AI.

Registration: Register here. Registration is free. The link to the webinar will be sent to you after registration.

Información en español, Informações em português

Speakers

Moderator

Vera Bornstein, Member of the Brazilian Popular Education Network

Prof. Adriana Prestes do Nascimento Palú has a degree in Dentistry and a Master’s degree in Collective Health. She is currently an official of the Municipal Health Authority of Apucarana – Paraná, where she is director of the Department of Health Education and Research and coordinator of the Multiprofessional Residency Commission. She is the state coordinator of the Training Programme for Popular Health Agents (AgPopSUS) and of the Improvement Course in Popular Health Education (EdPopSUS), and is a member of the National Articulation of Movements and Practices of Popular Education and Health – ANEPS, of the Popular Education Network and of the National Movement of Health Residencies.

Prof. Dr. Vanderléia Pulga, Bachelor in Philosophy, Master and Doctor in Education, winner of 1st place in the Research and Systematisation category in the 2nd edition of the Victor Valla Award, Professor of Collective Health at UFFS/Campus Passo Fundo/RS in the undergraduate course of Medicine. Vice-coordinator of the Multiprofessional Health Residency Programme. Member of the Innovation in Collective Health Research Group. Researcher and guest lecturer of the International Network of Education and Research in Education and Work in Health Systems and Services (RED SALUD UNICA) and of the Master’s and Doctorate Programme in Public Health of the Catholic University Redemptoris Mater (UNICA) and of PAHO. Member of the Popular Education and Health WG of ABRASCO. Member of the Brazilian Association of Rede Unida. Member of the National Articulation of Movements and Practices of Popular Education and Health.

Dr. Monica Genith Castro Hernandez, Surgeon and Master in Public Health from the National University of Colombia, Coordinator of the life course group of the Promotion and Prevention Directorate of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia.

Summary

The webinar aims to analyse how popular education or part of its pedagogical and political principles have been introduced/assumed in health education policies in different countries of the region. There will be a theoretical introduction on the foundations and principles of popular education and afterwards, two speakers will talk about educational policies and experiences in Colombia and Brazil. The questions we will address during the webinar are:

  • How have Latin American countries adopted the perspective of popular education, its pedagogical and political principles, in educational policies in the field of health?
  • What training initiatives on popular health education are implemented with community members and health professionals in Latin American countries?

Latin American Network for the Revitalisation of Health Education

This webinar is a part of the “Latin American Network for the Revitalisation of Health Education”. This initiative is being promoted with the participation of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health and Education, the Inter-American Consortium of Universities and Training Centers for Health Education and Health Promotion (CIUEPS), the Brazilian Network of Popular Health Education, the Colombian Network of Health Education and the Regional Office for Latin America of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE/ORLA), with the following objectives:

  • Promote health education at national and international levels, as a fundamental dimension of the health disciplines, the educational sciences and the social and human sciences.
  • To recuperate the Latin American production and position it in the regional level, which implies promoting its critical and decolonial approaches. A health education that advocates for social transformation towards a more just and equitable society that guarantees well-being and a life with dignity.
  • Promote the articulation of the education and health sectors to strengthen the actions of each of these sectors to promote health education, by recognizing education and health as two inalienable, synergistic and interdependent human rights.
  • Strengthen the theoretical, political and ethical foundations of health education as a requirement for a responsible, productive and ethical pedagogical practice.
  • To generate a setting for the articulation of academia and civil society that allows Latin American integration in order to share experiences, knowledge and aspirations framed in a collective purpose.
  • To promote national and international integration with respect to health education as a means for mutual learning and solidarity, and to facilitate cooperative actions in the development of academic-scientific events, research and training processes.

The webinars, open to all interested stakeholders, are a component of the program. They are experiential sessions, lasting 60-90 minutes, with guest speakers who present their reflections on two or three problematic questions to encourage audience participation. Five webinars have been scheduled for this first stage of the program, with an interval of 2 months between each one.

Watch the recordings of previous webinars:

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18
Mar
2025
26 March 2025 – Education for nutrition and biodiversity

26 March 2025 – Education for nutrition and biodiversity

An official Nutrition for Growth Summit side-event at UNESCO Headquarters exploring the nexus between education, nutrition and biodiversity

The day before the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit, hosted by France, UNESCO is hosting side-events linking education to better health and nutrition outcomes. The year 2025 will also be significant as it marks the end of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition.  

The events will take place in two parts. Learn to Eat Well: Biodiverse Diets and Youth as Agents of Change is a high-level segment organized by the UNESCO GEM Report, UNEP and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The segment will feature ministers of education and health, championing the role of education and biodiversity in ending malnutrition, with an emphasis on the role of young leaders in driving transformation.  

The occasion will see the launch of a new paper, Learn to Eat Well, by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the research initiative of the School Meals Coalition of 100+ countries worldwide. The paper advocates for a life-cycle approach to nutrition integrated into lifelong learning systems, in and through schools, covering professional development drives for nutrition and health workers, and empowering farmers and researchers to promote biodiversity in food production. The report adds to a body of key publications such as the UNESCO global status report Ready to learn and thrive: School health and nutrition around the world. 

Embracing the power of biodiverse diets and the role of youth as agents of change in transforming food systems and driving nutrition goals, the event will present insights from the UNESCO International Food Atlas, which promotes awareness of the cultural and ecological diversity of food, and the UNEP Facilitation Guide for a Youth-led Month of Action on Food, which empowers young people to lead initiatives for sustainable and equitable food systems. 

This will be followed directly by Planning for learners to thrive – a dialogue organized by UNESCO and the Inter-Agency Group for School Health and Nutrition. The discussion will explore the role of education sector planning in advancing nutrition, including school meals as part of a comprehensive approach to school health and well-being. Bringing together governments, UN agencies, and development partners, the session will highlight how governments and partners can leverage ESP to create inclusive, health-promoting learning environments that enhance foundational learning and reduce inequalities. 

Date and time: 26 March 2025 – 11:00 am – 26 March 2025 – 1:15 pm

Location: UNESCO Headquarters, 7 Place Fontenoy, Paris, 75007, France

Arrangement type : In-Person

Contact : Kate Linkins

To register: https://indico.un.org/event/1016697/

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04
Mar
2025
Save the date! Global Community Health Annual Workshop 10-12 June 2025

Save the date! Global Community Health Annual Workshop 10-12 June 2025

On 10, 11 and 12 June 2025 the 5th edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop will take place. This year’s workshop theme is ‘Building healthy, fair and climate-smart communities: addressing commercial determinants of health’.

During the workshop the focus will be on the impact of the commercial determinants of health on community health and how public health actions can respond to them. Different initiatives with a special focus on participatory methods will be explored looking at conflict of interests and possible co-benefits of private sector action for better health on the community level. This will also be the capacity building focus for the participants.

The Global Community Health Annual Workshop provides a space where community health and health promotion practitioners and policy makers can improve their skills and where researchers can gain in capacities to conduct community-based participatory research.

Organisers are the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, EHESP School of Public Health, International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), Réseau Francophone International Pour la Promotion de la Sante (RÉFIPS), European Public Health Association (EUPHA), University of Clermont Auvergne and Huddersfield University.

Registration will start soon!

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04
Mar
2025
Schools4Health Education and Health Partners Strengthen Commitment to Health-Promoting Schools Across Europe

Schools4Health Education and Health Partners Strengthen Commitment to Health-Promoting Schools Across Europe

How can schools, policymakers, and communities work together to make every school a Health-Promoting School? This was the central question at the recent Schools4Health consortium meeting, where partners explored ways to ensure the long-term impact of the project.

Discussions focused on:
✔️ Strengthening collaboration between health and education sectors to embed health promotion in school policies and practices
✔️ Scaling up successful pilot initiatives that improve student well-being through nutrition, physical activity, and mental health support as an entry point to implementing the health-promoting school approach
✔️ Ensuring the sustainability of the Health Promoting Schools approach beyond the project’s duration

Over the coming months, Schools4Health will continue working with partners across Europe to turn these discussions into action, helping schools create environments where students can thrive.

Read the latest update with the press release about the meeting.

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18
Feb
2025
New Doctorate in Education and Health at the University of Antioquia in Colombia

New Doctorate in Education and Health at the University of Antioquia in Colombia

Join the Doctorate in Education and Health at the University of Antioquia! If you are a professional committed to the transformation of education in the field of health and the generation of innovative knowledge, this programme is for you.

The PhD offers you:
✅ High-level research with impact on public policy and communities.
Face-to-face mode with ICT support, facilitating the participation of national and international students.
Inter-institutional collaboration with 8 academic units of the University of Antioquia.

🎓 Degree awarded: Doctor in Education and Health.
📅 Enrolment open until 6 June 2025

This programme is your opportunity to develop cutting-edge research, contribute to the transformation of health education and strengthen social impact from a critical and transdisciplinary perspective.

👆 More information: bit.ly/DoctoradoEducacionSaludUdeA

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06
Feb
2025
New PhD on Health Literacy & Healthy Life Styles – register today for the HeLiCA Chair Academy

New PhD on Health Literacy & Healthy Life Styles – register today for the HeLiCA Chair Academy

PhD Health Literacy & Healthy Lifestyles: from theory to practice (10 ECTS)

Join on-line for a health promotion journey toward a lifestyle focused on wellness, sustainability and quality of life!
Explore the role of Health Literacy and Salutogenesis and immerse yourself in this culturally diverse group at the University of Education Freiburg (Germany).
Participate in the Healthy Lifestyles & Health Literacy Chair Academy University Program (HeLiCA):

Application Deadline: March 31, 2025 (registration www.helica.net)

Course Fee: No fee
Type of Award: Certificate, up to 10 ECTS
Level of Teaching: Postgraduate (or equivalent) ask for more information
Mode of Delivery: On-line. One week full-time (see full program here) (hybrid and/or on-line) plus extended program (on-line)

School Campus: University of Education Freiburg, (Germany)
Start Date: April 7, 2025
Admission Requirements: Expression of Interest. Applications are sought from those working or training in a community setting providing education & health related counselling, practitioners, health educators/community health workers or university graduates.

Language: English.

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06
Feb
2025
Webinar 11 February 2025 – Strategies for implementing Health Education in different Latin American settings

Webinar 11 February 2025 – Strategies for implementing Health Education in different Latin American settings

Time: 8.00 (Mexico), 9.00 (Colombia), 10.00 (Puerto Rico), 11.00 (Brasil), 15.00 (France)

Register: Registration is free. The link to the webinar will be sent to you after registration.

Language: The webinar will be held in Spanish and Portuguese. Translation will be available in 50+ languages, including English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. We will use a translation app based on AI.

Información en español, Informações em português

Summary

Our Network promotes the strengthening of education in the field of health in Latin America. This is why we consider it essential to review the strategies implemented, as well as to recognise the pedagogical perspective that underpins them. This implies transcending the biomedical and instrumental approach and promoting an education that not only transmits knowledge, but also fosters critical thinking, active participation and the emancipation of communities.

We propose an education for health that is transdisciplinary and dialogical, and that integrates both academic knowledge and popular and ancestral knowledge. It is not only about providing information, but also about generating learning spaces that empower people and enable them to actively participate in the transformation of their communities, strongly marked in the Latin American context by the presence of the Social Determinants of Health and their consequent health inequities.

Reviewing current strategies in Latin America will be key to promoting Health Education that responds to the real needs of communities and increases their collective participation in health.

The questions that we will address during the webinar are:

  1. What are the experiences that are being carried out in the field of Health Education in different countries in Latin America?
  2. What are the strengths and opportunities for Health Education?

Speakers

Speakers are:

  • Prof. Dr. Martín Zemel, Director of the School of Dentistry, Universidad FASTA, Argentina
  • Prof. Mgter. Blanca Patricia Mantilla Uribe, Director of the PROINAPSA Institute, Universidad Industrial del Santander, Colombia
  • Mgter. Patricia Zamora Valdés, Head of the Department of Health Promotion and Citizen Participation, Division of Healthy Public Policies and Health Promotion. Undersecretariat of Public Health, Ministry of Health of Chile
  • Prof. Dr. Hayda Alves, Network of Popular Health Education, Brazil

Latin American Network for the Revitalisation of Health Education

This webinar is a part of the “Latin American Network for the Revitalisation of Health Education”. This initiative is being promoted with the participation of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health and Education, the Inter-American Consortium of Universities and Training Centers for Health Education and Health Promotion (CIUEPS), the Brazilian Network of Popular Health Education, the Colombian Network of Health Education and the Regional Office for Latin America of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE/ORLA), with the following objectives:

  • Promote health education at national and international levels, as a fundamental dimension of the health disciplines, the educational sciences and the social and human sciences.
  • To recuperate the Latin American production and position it in the regional level, which implies promoting its critical and decolonial approaches. A health education that advocates for social transformation towards a more just and equitable society that guarantees well-being and a life with dignity.
  • Promote the articulation of the education and health sectors to strengthen the actions of each of these sectors to promote health education, by recognizing education and health as two inalienable, synergistic and interdependent human rights.
  • Strengthen the theoretical, political and ethical foundations of health education as a requirement for a responsible, productive and ethical pedagogical practice.
  • To generate a setting for the articulation of academia and civil society that allows Latin American integration in order to share experiences, knowledge and aspirations framed in a collective purpose.
  • To promote national and international integration with respect to health education as a means for mutual learning and solidarity, and to facilitate cooperative actions in the development of academic-scientific events, research and training processes.

The webinars, open to all interested stakeholders, are a component of the program. They are experiential sessions, lasting 60-90 minutes, with guest speakers who present their reflections on two or three problematic questions to encourage audience participation. Five webinars have been scheduled for this first stage of the program, with an interval of 2 months between each one.

Watch the recordings of previous webinars:

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06
Feb
2025
In memory of Nanne de Vries

In memory of Nanne de Vries

With deep sadness we announce the passing of Prof. Dr. Nanne de Vries in December 2024. Nanne was involved with the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education from its very beginning early 2018. He became member of the Steering Committee and later our Head of Scientific Affairs. His contribution to strengthening health promotion nationally and globally is truely impressive. Over the years he contributed to writing a research strategy for the UNESCO Chair. Being in his company was a combination of bringing his knowledge and expertise in the field of health promotion, of complex system thinking …., but also sharing his humour and knowledge of very varied kinds of topics. His contribution to the UNESCO Chair has been significant and will have a lasting impact on our future direction. Our thoughts are with his wife, his children and grandchild and all other close ones.
More information about Nanne de Vries on the Maastricht University website.

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