Symposium: School Health as we confront COVID-19 in Asia
On 2 November 2020, 13.15 – 14.45 JST, 5.15 – 6.45 CET, the Osaka University UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education and the Japanese Consortium for Global Health Research will organise the symposium “School Health as we confront COVID-19 in Asia. What have we learned and where do we go from.. →
“Prioritizing the health and safety of students and educators through closer intersectoral collaboration” – Extraordinary Session of the UNESCO Global Education Meeting on Education post-COVID-19
On 22 October, over 70 Member States adopted a Declaration in an online extraordinary session of the UNESCO 2020 Global Education Meeting expressing their commitment to protect national education financing and to implement measures to mitigate the devastating impact of the pandemic on students, families.. →
Returning to School: children and young people living with chronic illness
In the article “Returning to School: children and young people living with chronic illness” published on September 28, 2020 in the Journal of Children’s Services, Didier Jourdan, Nicola Gray and Janet E. McDonagh propose a framework to support the successful return to school of children.. →
Pre-conference: Helping people to help themselves to better health – From theory to practice
Join the online pre-conference “Helping people to help themselves to better health – From theory to practice” on Monday 12 October 2020, 14.00 – 16.00 CET. This pre-conference is part of the virtual 16th World Congress on Public Health.
More than ever, the current context reminds us.. →
Coronavirus: what we know about the risk of reopening schools – and how best to limit it
Across the world, over 1.5 billion children and young people were deprived of school during the first phase of the pandemic. We know this has had a negative effect on learning. And research carried out in England has shown that children in deprived areas have fallen furthest.. →
High-level virtual meeting on schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic
The challenge of supporting effective schooling during the pandemic
On Monday 31 August, WHO/Europe organised an online high-level meeting with ministers of health from across the WHO European Region to exchange experiences, views and reflections on providing safe and effective schooling during.. →
Sexuality education in the digital space and Health & Wellbeing for young people in times of COVID-19 – UNESCO publications
UNESCO recently published a range of products that have been developed relating to a series of work exploring sexuality education in the digital space. Also a report was published based on a consultation on the health and wellbeing challenges facing young people in the context of school closures.. →
Videos and resources webinar “The COVID-19 pandemic: better aligning education and health” now available!
Many of you participated in the webinar “The COVID-19 pandemic: better aligning education and health” on Monday 13 July 2020. We would like to thank the guest speakers and all the participants for their excellent contributions. The videos and all the resources are now available on the.. →
Our community members have their say! Fatou Diagne
A global community at the service of its members
The strength of the Chair’s community lies in the skills and knowledge of its members. The community is at the service of its members and exists of those who choose to join it. Therefore we want to put the community members in the spotlight.. →
Our community members have their say! MinChien Tsai
A global community at the service of its members
The strength of the Chair’s community lies in the skills and knowledge of its members. The community is at the service of its members and exists of those who choose to join it. Therefore we want to put the community members in the spotlight.. →
Our community members have their say! Nicola Gray
A global community at the service of its members
The strength of the Chair’s community lies in the skills and knowledge of its members. The community is at the service of its members and exists of those who choose to join it. Therefore we want to put our community members in the spotlight.. →
Report: Country Collaborations for the Prevention & Management of NCDs in Young People
NCD Child recently launched a new report entitled ‘Country Collaborations for the Prevention & Management of NCDs in Young People – NCD Advocacy Workshop Series: 2015-2019’.
In 2015 NCD Child launched its Protecting Children from NCDs: Leadership Advocacy Training Workshop.. →
Webinar “Health Promotion Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic” on 22 June 2020
Join our interactive webinar “Health Promotion Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic” on Monday, 22 June 2020 from 18:00 to 19.00 (CEST). This webinar will be an opportunity to discuss with Prof. Stephan Van den Broucke the way health promotion can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to.. →
Stop tobacco industry exploitation of children and young people
The World Health Organization is today launching a new kit for school students aged 13-17 to alert them to the tobacco industry tactics used to hook them to addictive products. Increasingly, the tobacco industry is targeting young people with nicotine and tobacco products in a bid to replace the 8.. →
UNESCO launches a series of online forums entitled “Imagining the world to come”
UNESCO is calling on inspiring voices from across the globe to take part in a series of online discussions to help us imagine the world taking shape as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The series will kick off in May with a unique event featuring leading women experts and thinkers.
The COVID-19.. →
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), a WHO collaborative cross-national study, has been seeking to understand and monitor young people’s health across Europe and Canada for more than 30 years. As the study has grown to include 50 member countries and regions, the utility of the data.. →
Questionnaire reopening schools and COVID-19
With the reopening of schools in countries where they have been closed, we are now entering a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. These nationwide and localized closures of schools are impacting over 90% of the world’s student population (around 1.3 billion children and young people). Reopening.. →
Bringing a Health Promotion perspective to COVID-19 response by EUPHA-HP, IUHPE and UNESCO Chair
“A Health Promotion Focus on COVID-19. Keep the Trojan horse out of our health systems: Promote health for ALL in times of crisis and beyond!”.
Ongoing discussion about the range of actions needed during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is calling all of us.. →
A framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020
OECD recently published a report which aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In most countries around the world school-based education will be disrupted for several months due to the social isolation measures as.. →
SAVE THE DATE Side event at the World Health Assembly in Geneva – 19 May 2020
Developing the capacity of ALL schools to promote the current and future health of students
Objectives
To describe the evidence base for the implementation and scaling up of school-based health initiatives
To assess the challenges and the levers for effective and sustainable.. →