Registration 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion – IUHPE 2022 is open
IUHPE is happy to confirm the opening of registrations to the 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion – IUHPE 2022, being held in Montreal, Canada, and online, from May 15 to May 19, 2022. Louise Potvin, Professor at the University of Montreal School of Public Health and Director of the.. →
Webinar Dynamics in School Health Promotion – 25 May 2021 14.00 CEST
Implementing the Health Promoting School (HPS) approach and creating change in the whole school system can be challenging, since schools are dynamic organisations. Each school operates in its own specific context and health promoting interventions should fit to that unique context. Consequently, this.. →
Final programme IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion
The 11th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion (IUHPE 2021) and the 6th International Conference on Salutogenesis will be held from June 14 to 18, 2021, in online format to facilitate the participation of professionals from different countries. IUHPE is also celebrating its 70th anniversary… →
11 May 2021 – School Health Promotion in Latin America: Lessons Learned
On 11 May 2021, 17.00 – 18.00 CEST, 11.00 – 12.00 AST, the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center Global Health & Education, the University of Puerto Rico, the Universidad Industrial de Santander, and FLACSO Argentina will organise the webinar: School Health Promotion in Latin America:.. →
Call for conference papers: Social Sciences and the COVID-19 Pandemic
State of Knowledge and Proposals for Action
Colloquium proposed by the French Presidency of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee Bureau – Management Of Social Transformations (MOST) – UNESCO
Life sciences have mobilised globally to understand and fight the COVID-19 virus. Hence,.. →
Schools for healthy lives, not for corporate interests
ublished by the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health in May 2021
This correspondence was recently published by The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health[1] in response to the Viewpoint: Supporting every school to become a foundation for healthy lives[2], by Prof. Didier Jourdan and colleagues.
The.. →
Fifth International Conference on Learning Cities – Call for researchers
In preparation for the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 5), the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and Yeonsu City, Republic of Korea, are commissioning background papers on the three themes related to global health education and emergency response. These papers will.. →
Schooling during COVID-19: recommendations from the European Technical Advisory Group for schooling during COVID-19
Recently the recommendations from the WHO European Region Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic were published. The recommendations represent the work of the TAG between October 2020 and March 2021.
The recommendations were considered at a WHO ministerial.. →
24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion – Call for abstracts
The call for abstracts for the 24th IUHPE World Conference on health Promotion – IUHPE 2022 is now open. The conference theme is “Promoting policies for health, well-being and equity”. The conference will be held Montréal (Québec) Canada and in hybrid format from 15 to 19 May 2022. Abstract.. →
Global Community Health Annual Workshop – First edition
The UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health and Education invites all those interested in promoting health and equity at a community level to the first edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop that will take place on 6, 7 and 8 July 2021.
The main aim of.. →
What does the evidence tell us about keeping schools open safely – High level ministerial meeting UNESCO
As the world enters a second year living with the COVID-19 pandemic, half of the global student population is still affected by full or partial school closures. To mobilize and support learning continuity, UNESCO established the Global Education Coalition which today counts 160 members working.. →
Call for Chapters International handbook of teaching and learning health promotion: practices and reflections from around the world
This call is intended to identify experiences that produce a dialogue between teaching and learning practices carried out locally and the possibilities of application and transformation from local to global reality. The book is to be published by Springer Publisher and launched at the 24th IUHPE World.. →
Development and evaluation of educational resources produced in response to the COVID-19 crisis
In this recently published French article “Élaboration et évaluation de l’utilité, de l’utilisabilité et de l’acceptabilité de ressources éducatives produites en réponse à la crise de la COVID-19[i]” (in English: ‘Development and evaluation of the usefulness, usability and acceptability.. →
Webinar – Exploring Global Inequalities in Adolescent Health and Healthcare
On 25 March 2021 from 13.00 – 14.00 CET, the interactive webinar “Exploring Global Inequalities in Adolescent Health and Healthcare” will take place. The webinar is organised by the UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center Global Health & Education as part of the International Adolescent.. →
International Adolescent Health Week
International Adolescent Health Week, celebrated the 3rd full week in March yearly, is a grass-roots initiative for young people, their health care providers, their teachers, their parents, their advocates and their communities to come together and celebrate young people and with an ultimate.. →
One year into COVID: Prioritizing education recovery to avoid a generational catastrophe
Monday 29 March, 14:00 CET, a high-level Ministerial on-line event
As the world enters a second year living with the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO will convene a high-level ministerial event on 29 March to take stock of lessons learnt, the greatest risks facing education and strategies to leave.. →
New online portal for resources and information on health inequalities
EuroHealthNet launched a new online portal for information and resources on health inequalities in Europe, health-inequalities.eu. It is a platform for international exchange including information, policies, research, and initiatives on health inequalities, for anyone who has a role in the COVID-19.. →
Webinar: Global Standards for Health Promoting Schools
WHO and UNESCO organise a webinar on Global Standards for Health Promoting Schools on 16 February 2021 from 14.00 – 16.00 CET / 13:00 – 15:00 UTC .
The key objectives of the webinar are:
Provide an outline about the initiative
Present an overview on the two documents:.. →
Participate in the second survey on the safe reopening of schools
You are invited to complete the second survey on the safe reopening of schools and to share the survey within your network. The aim of the survey is to gather the experiences and opinions of education and health professionals about the processes in place in their countries and territories to reopen.. →
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health – Podcast
In Conversation With… Didier Jourdan & Nicola Gray
Didier Jourdan & Nicola Gray join The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Editor-in-chief Jane Godsland to discuss how and why child health professionals should be supporting schools to become the foundation of a healthy life.
Didier.. →