Learning from PEER country profiles – The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education
On 15 February the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, the UNESCO Section of Health and Education and the Government of Sweden are co-hosting a webinar to launch the latest peer learning tool on countries’ approaches to comprehensive sexuality education.
The aim.. →
Seminar Pacific School Health Promotion Futures – Register now
A one-day hybrid seminar for all school health stakeholders in the Pacific!
21 February 2023 from 9.30am to 3.30pm AEDT
Please join us as we consider the future of school health promotion in the Pacific region. This seminar is the first in a series of dialogues that aim to bring together.. →
Webinar Assessment, critical analysis and opportunities to strengthen research in School Health Promotion for children and adolescents in Latin America -16 February 2023
On 16 February 2023 the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Health & Education and the University of Puerto Rico will organise the webinar: Assessment, critical analysis and opportunities to strengthen research in School Health Promotion for children and adolescents in.. →
Save the date – Pacific school health promotion futures – 21 February 2023
A one-day hybrid seminar for all school health stakeholders in the Pacific!
21 February 2023 from 10 AM to 3 PM AEDTFace-to-face at Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne & online on Zoom
Please join us as we consider the future of school health promotion in the Pacific region. .. →
The Right to Science and Africa – Online symposium 26 January 2023
The online Symposium The Right to Science and Africa will be organised on Thursday 26 January from 14:00 to 17:30 pm CET. It is organised by the Cambridge-Harvard Right to Science Study Group at gloknos, led by Christine Mitchell (Harvard), Sebastian Porsdam Mann (Oxford), and.. →
International Day of Education: Online celebration 24 January 16.00 – 19.00 CET
The year 2023 marks the mid-point since the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for people, planet and prosperity, with a set of 17 interlocked goals that will come up for review at the SDG Summit in September on the theme of investing in people.
Education must be prioritized to accelerate progress.. →
Joint letter from European public health and consumer associations to the EC on the future front-of-pack nutrition label for Europe
European public health and consumer organisations[1] wrote a letter on December 19th, 2022 to Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice President for the European Green Deal), and EC Commissioners Kyriakides (DG Health) and Wojciechowski (DG Agri) to express their concern about the revision of EU consumer.. →
Food and nutrition education and school food to improve diets for life – Webinar 8 December
On 8 December 2022, 15.00 (CET) the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme in collaboration with the School Meals Coalition will organise a webinar: “Food and nutrition education and school food to improve diets for life – Linking school-based.. →
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child, and the Whole Culture
In 2014 the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model (WSCC) – a collaboration between the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ASCD – was launched. It was a response to the “call for greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to.. →
Webinar: Improving inclusion of children living with a rare disease through curriculum transformation – 28 November 2022
UNESCO-IBE is organising a webinar on “Improving inclusion of children living with a rare disease through curriculum transformation”, co-organised with the Agrenska Foundation and Rare Diseases International and taking place on 28 November 2022 2:00-4:00 PM – Geneva time – (UTC+1).
Panelists:
Yao.. →
Caribbean Youth Mental Health Call to Action
Around the world, one in seven adolescents aged 10-19 years old experience a mental disorder, including depression, anxiety and behavioural disorders that limit their ability to live a full life as an adult. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the challenges faced by young people accessing.. →
BMJ Collection on Adolescent Well-being
The world’s 1.2 billion adolescents (young people aged 10-19 years) now represent almost 16% of the world’s population; yet this group has received limited attention from global agenda-setting initiatives, such as universal health coverage and sustainable development. This needs to be addressed,.. →
Webinar Towards a regional agenda for School Health Promotion in Latin America
On 17 November 2022, 10.00 – 11.00 AST, 15.00 – 16.00 CET, the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center Global Health & Education and the University of Puerto Rico, will organise the webinar: Towards a regional agenda for School Health Promotion in Latin America. The webinar will be held.. →
Launch free E-learning: Challenging the obesogenic environment – Towards a Community-Based Approach
On the 10th of November 2022 JOGG (Healthy Youngsters with a Healthy Future) will launch their new free E-learning: Challenging the obesogenic environment – Towards a Community-Based Approach.
Sharing knowledge, skills and good examples forms the basis of the Dutch JOGG-approach… →
Lifelong learning for health webinar 3/3 – Sustainable policy implementation and visibility – 16 November 2022
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education (GHE) will co-host this webinar as part of a series aimed at developing a roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities, adopted at the fifth International Conference.. →
Statement to the Ministerial Meeting of the School Meals Coalition
On Tuesday 18 October 2022 a Ministerial Meeting was organised to discuss the progress of the School Meals coalition so far and establish ways to move forward as it enters its second year. The Research Consortium published the Stockholm Statement which informed the ministers of the School.. →
Child health and well-being – An interdisciplinary summit organized by the Technical University of Munich, 12-14 October 2022
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) hosted an interdisciplinary summit on 12-14 October 2022, focusing on health issues in children and adolescence in the post-COVID era.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have a long-lasting and negative impact on children’s development and health… →
Interactive symposium: Children and their Families Need Social Connection to Thrive, 2 Nov
TeEACH (Transforming Early Education and Child Health Research Centre ) is organising an interactive symposium: “Children and their Families Need Social Connection to Thrive” on Wednesday 2 November 2022 from 9.00 – 16.00 AEDT, 23.00 (1 Nov) – 6.00 (2 Nov) CET.
Social (dis)connection.. →
MOOC on Science and Human Rights
UNESCO/Global Campus of Human Rights Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Science and Human Rights is out and open for enrolment. The course, which is the first ever educational content on this topic, will be running from 10 October to 13 November 2022. Registration is free and open.. →
PAHO webinar: Policy Options for Strengthening and Transforming Health Systems in the Americas – 11 October 2022
The Department of Health Systems and Services of the Pan American Health Organization(PAHO) is organizing the 3rd webinar in a series called “Policy Options for Strengthening and Transforming Health Systems in the Americas” on 11 October 2022 at 10:00 (EDT) / 16:00 (CET). The aim of.. →