Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research – Vol. 3 available
We are pleased to announce the release of the 3rd volume of the Global Handbook of health Promotion Research: Doing Health Promotion Research[1].
A global collaborative initiative
This publication is the result of a global collaborative initiative, launched in May 2020 by the UNESCO.. →
International Barometer of Health and Well-being of Education Staff – Second edition
The first edition of the International Barometer of Education Staff (or I-BEST) was launched in 2021, after 18 months of a global pandemic that required the urgent collection of updated data on the state of personnel as close to the field as possible. With the participation of 8,000 teachers, the results.. →
Global Community Health Annual Workshop 3rd edition – register now
The third edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop will take place on 13, 14 and 15 June 2023 as an online event. The main theme of this year’s workshop is ‘Sustainable community health: practice-based solutions for today’s challenges’. The theme will be explored through different.. →
Special call for papers in Health Education “Social justice, equity, and agency: global challenges linking health, wellbeing and sustainability education”
Editors: Monica Carlsson, Irene Torres & Martin Mickelsson.
The deadline for submissions is 21. November 2023.
The aim of the special issue is to highlight how social justice and equity perspectives can qualify and deepen our understanding of how health, wellbeing and sustainability.. →
New report: Ready to learn and thrive: School health and nutrition around the world
On 8 February UNESCO, UNICEF and the WFP launched a new report “Ready to learn and thrive: School health and nutrition around the world”. The report shows that 1 in 3 schools in the world still lack access to drinking water and basic sanitation facilities while we know that investing in school.. →
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.. →