UNESCO and WHO urge countries to make every school a health-promoting school
On 22 June 2021 UNESCO and the World Health Organization launched the Global Standards for Health-promoting Schools, a resource package for schools to improve the health and well-being of 1.9 billion school-aged children and adolescents. The closure of many schools around the world during the COVID-19.. →
Survey: How are we using participatory research to learn about children and young people’s perspectives during the COVID 19 pandemic?
In response to the challenges that COVID-19 has presented to participatory researchers around the world, researchers from the University of Melbourne and University College Dublin prepared a short survey, based on a focus group that was held during the ICPHR Virtual Annual Working Meeting 2020.
The.. →
Launch of the Global Partnership Forum on Comprehensive Sexuality Education
29 June 2021 – 15.00 CEST
UNESCO and UNFPA, co-convenors of the Global Partnership Forum on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), are organising a virtual launch event. This formal launch event, before the Generation Equality Forum, aims to highlight the importance of CSE to achieving.. →
Making every school a health-promoting school
Virtual meeting organised by WHO and UNESCO – 22 June 2021 13.00 – 14.00 CEST
The health, well-being and education of children and young people are closely intertwined. With a vision that every school around the world becomes a Health-Promoting School (HPS), UNESCO and the World Health.. →
Article: Co-operation and consistency: a global survey of professionals involved in reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools closed in haste and were expected to create virtual learning opportunities for their students while they waited to see when and how they might re-open. National governments issued reopening guidance at varying speeds. The purpose of the study described in.. →
Education provides a path to reduced child mortality, new CHAIN-IHME study finds
A comprehensive analysis has found that each year of parental education is associated with lower risks of childhood mortality. Published in The Lancet, the study is the largest to date to examine the relationship between mothers’ and fathers’ education and child mortality on a global.. →
Tools to assess Girl-friendly schools, Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Youth-friendly Health Services
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) in partnership with the Her Choice Programme has developed tools in English and French to assess Girl-friendly Schools (GFS), Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and Youth-Friendly Health Services (YFHS).The development and evaluation of the.. →
Global Community Health Annual Workshop – register now
The UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health & Education and EHEPS invite 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.. →
Save the date: exclusive preview of a new global status report about comprehensive sexuality education
The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education: An exclusive preview of a new global status report
Thursday 24th June at 8h Mexico City ‖ 9h New York ‖ 13h Dakar ‖ 15h Paris ‖ 16h Nairobi ‖ 20h Bangkok
UNESCO, together with UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women.. →
Global survey on the safe reopening of schools available in 6 languages
The global survey on the safe reopening of schools in now available in Arabic, English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. You are invited to complete the survey and to share the survey within your network. The aim of the survey is to gather the experiences and opinions of education and health.. →
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