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The world currently has the largest generation of young people in history. Half of the people on our planet are aged 30 years or younger. In the WHO European Region, every third person is under 30.

Young people are unafraid.. →

How can countries around the world harness the power of education in the fight against online and offline hate speech? UNESCO and the United Nations’ Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect have jointly developed the first guide for policy-makers and teachers, exploring.. →

Monash University and VicHealth have collaborated to create “Kids Building Future Healthy,” an educational edition of Minecraft aimed at children between the ages of 9 and 12.

This initiative encourages children to design communities in the game where people are connected, physically active,.. →

The impact of high living costs and decreasing income available for essential services and goods – such as healthcare – have been widespread. It is currently the most pressing worry for 93% of Europeans, with 39% saying they are facing difficulties paying their bills. In fact, the cost-of-living.. →

Press release, 11 May 2023, EU scientists and health professionals for Nutri-Score

A group of 316 scientists and health professionals released a comprehensive scientific report explaining “Why the European Commission must choose the Nutri-Score nutrition label – a public health tool.. →

Following the Tiohtià:ke Statement: Catalysing policies for health, well-being and equity, an outcome of IUHPE2022 World Conference, the journal Global Health Promotion is calling for papers on decolonizing knowledge, approaches and methodologies in health promotion.. →

On 16 March 2023 the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Health & Education in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico and the Chair of Health Promotion at the University of Girona will  organise the webinar: the curricular experience in school health promotion. The.. →

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.. →

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.. →

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.. →

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.. →

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.. →

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.. →

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.. →

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.. →

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 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.. →

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.. →