Save the date – Global Community Health Annual Workshop 2nd edition
The second edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop will take place from 28 till 30 June 2022. The interactive workshop will take place online and is free of charge. Practitioners, students, policy makers and researchers from all over the world are welcome to join. More information about.. →
New publication: Questioning Education. Moving from What and How to Why and Who
This new book “Questioning Education. Moving from What and How to Why and Who” by Sean Slade was published early March 2022.
How can we rethink the future of education as a system, process, and tradition to make lasting changes in the post-pandemic world? This book reminds us that.. →
Webinar Transitioning to a sustainable food system and delivering on the SDGs – The potential of school meals
EURAGRI and CIRAD invite you to join the online webinar “Transitioning to a sustainable food system and delivering on the SDGs – The potential of school meals” on 21 March 2022 from 14.00 – 16.30 CET.
The first United Nations Summit on Food Systems (UNFSS) took place in 2021. It.. →
UNICEF report: Preventing a lost decade
Two years into the pandemic, the widespread effects of COVID-19 continue to worsen, increasing poverty and deepening inequalities. While some countries are recovering and rebuilding a ‘new normal’, for many, COVID-19 remains a crisis. The human rights of children around the world have not been.. →
The Futures of Higher Education: International UNESCO Chairs Forum
Jointly organised by Italy and UNESCO at Expo 2020 Dubai, the International UNESCO Chairs Forum on the Futures of Higher Education was held on 24 January 2022, to mark the International Day of Education 2022.
This Forum is part of the overall framework of UNESCO’s Future of Education.. →
Noncommunicable diseases in 53 countries: WHO/Europe presents new visual data tool
WHO/Europe has introduced a new data visualization tool that makes it easy to see key data on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Europe, the policies in place to address them and progress towards the NCD targets.
The data are presented interactively in easy-to-understand graphs that provide.. →
Webinar Implications of adultcentrism on the health of children and adolescents in Latin America – 17 February 2022
On 17 February 2022, 16.00 – 17.00 CEST / 11.00 – 12.00 AST, the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center Global Health & Education, the University of Puerto Rico, and the Ana G. Méndez University will organise the webinar: Implications of adultcentrism on the health of children.. →
Article – An analysis of alcohol industry-funded school-based youth education programmes
While the tobacco and fossil fuel industries have used youth education programmes and schools for decades to disseminate product-friendly discourses, ideas and values favourable to their positions, there has been no systematic research specifically on youth education programmes funded by the alcohol.. →
Concise Guides to the Sustainable Development Goals – SDG 3 Good Health and Wellbeing
The Concise Guides to the UN Sustainable Development Goals series consists of 17 short books, each examining one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The series provides an integrated assessment of the SDGs from an economic, legal, social, environmental and cultural perspective.
The guide.. →
New edition of the handbook of Salutogenesis
In January 2022 Springer published ‘The Handbook of Salutogenesis’ and is coordinated by Maurice Mittelmark as one of the leading expert in this field. It is the second edition and available as open access. The handbook provides an overview of the development of the field of salutogenesis.. →
SHE monitoring report on implementation of school health promotion
In December 2021 the Schools for Health in Europe Network Foundation (SHE) published a report on barriers and facilitators for the implementation of school health promotion in Europe: SHE Monitoring Report.
The aim was to get a deeper understanding of the current influencing.. →
The IUHPE 2022 programme is out! Check it now!
We are pleased to announce the preliminary programme for the 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion is now available online!
We have confirmed an exciting and informative programme in a variety of formats that will explore the conference theme Promoting policies for.. →
4th IAAH MENA Region Adolescent Health Conference – Declaration
The 4th IAAH (International Association for Adolescent Health) MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region Adolescent Health Conference was held from 1-3 December 2021 in Hurghada, Egypt.
Theme
The main theme of the conference was: “Adolescent Care, Leaving No One Behind”. The conference.. →
4th IAAH MENA Region Adolescent Health Conference – contributions UNESCO Chair
The 4th IAAH (International Association for Adolescent Health) MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region Adolescent Health Conference, organized by the Arab Coalition for Adolescent Health & Medicine (ACAHM), was held from 1-3 December 2021 in Hurghada, Egypt. The conference was held under the.. →
Late-breaking call for abstracts – share your latest work at IUHPE 2022!
The Global Scientific Committee is re-opening the opportunity for late-breaking submissions to IUHPE2022. We invite you to submit an abstract for presentation of the latest policy and research issues at the 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Under.. →
5th UNESCO Forum on Transformative Education for Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship, Health and Well-being
From 29 November to 1 December, UNESCO brought together experts in education for sustainable development, global citizenship and, health and well-being to discuss good practices, progress, monitoring and mainstreaming of transformative education towards target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals.. →
Article: Health promotion research has come of age!
Structuring the field based on the practices of health promotion researchers
In the article “Health promotion research has come of age! Structuring the field based on the practices of health promotion researchers” which was recently published in Global Health Promotion, Louise Potvin and.. →
New Strategic Development Plan EuroHealthNet
EuroHealthNet has launched its new Strategic Development Plan, which sets out the principles and priorities which will guide their work over the next five years.
EuroHealthNet members (over 60 organisations, institutes, and authorities working on public health, disease prevention, promoting.. →
Article: Teacher Care is a Lot More Than Self-Care
Published 2 November 2021, on EdSurge
In the article “School Leaders Take Note: Teacher Care is a Lot More Than Self-Care” the author, Sean Slade, stresses the importance of improving the environments educators are in everyday, in stead of focusing on solutions revolving around “self-care”.
Educators.. →
Lifelong learning for health as a key to building sustainable, equitable, inclusive and resilient cities
From emergency to resilience: Building healthy and resilient cities through learning – 5th UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities
The South Korean city of Yeonsu, a member of UNESCO’s Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC), hosted the Fifth International Conference.. →