UNESCO launches a series of online forums entitled “Imagining the world to come”
UNESCO is calling on inspiring voices from across the globe to take part in a series of online discussions to help us imagine the world taking shape as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The series will kick off in May with a unique event featuring leading women experts and thinkers.
The COVID-19.. →
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), a WHO collaborative cross-national study, has been seeking to understand and monitor young people’s health across Europe and Canada for more than 30 years. As the study has grown to include 50 member countries and regions, the utility of the data.. →
Questionnaire reopening schools and COVID-19
With the reopening of schools in countries where they have been closed, we are now entering a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. These nationwide and localized closures of schools are impacting over 90% of the world’s student population (around 1.3 billion children and young people). Reopening.. →
Bringing a Health Promotion perspective to COVID-19 response by EUPHA-HP, IUHPE and UNESCO Chair
“A Health Promotion Focus on COVID-19. Keep the Trojan horse out of our health systems: Promote health for ALL in times of crisis and beyond!”.
Ongoing discussion about the range of actions needed during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is calling all of us.. →
A framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020
OECD recently published a report which aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In most countries around the world school-based education will be disrupted for several months due to the social isolation measures as.. →
SAVE THE DATE Side event at the World Health Assembly in Geneva – 19 May 2020
Developing the capacity of ALL schools to promote the current and future health of students
Objectives
To describe the evidence base for the implementation and scaling up of school-based health initiatives
To assess the challenges and the levers for effective and sustainable.. →
The Handbook of health promotion research: An ambitious collaborative project
Background
Health promotion, as a strategy (a set of coordinated intersectoral actions) that aims to orient and support social change in order to improve health for all and reduce health inequalities, has been adopted in many countries. However there is not yet a structured field of research,.. →
International Adolescent Health Week (IAHW) 2020: Transforming Risk into Wellness with Resilience, Healthy Lifestyle, and Holistic Well-being
The annual International Adolescent Health Week (IAHW), will take place this year from 15-21 March 2020. IAAH and the UNESCO chair in Global health and Education are supporting this initiative.
http://internationaladolescenthealthweek.org/index.html
The 2020 Theme is: Transforming.. →
The contribution of the UNESCO Chair and the WHO Collaborating Centre, to UNESCO’s forward-looking work on tomorrow’s education
UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative
Accelerated climate change, the rise of artificial intelligence, the explosion of social movements around the globe … Despite differences, humanity faces common challenges. What will the world look like in 2050 and what role can education play in.. →
The school environment does matter for educational success and health!
The school environment plays an important role in the educational success, well-being and health of students. The quality of life at school (the physical and/or social environment) represents one of the key determinants of successful education. Adequate access to water, sanitation and hygiene in schools.. →