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.. →
Supporting every school to become a foundation for healthy lives
Article published in the Lancet on Friday 22 January 2021
This recent article[1] in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is both an advocacy tool and a roadmap for building bridges between education and health and enabling the development of intersectoral practices in schools.
Child.. →
Recording of regional workshop ‘School Health in Latin America: Intersectoral NCD Prevention and Management’
On December 14 and 15, 2020, NCD Child, in partnership with the Healthy Latin America Coalition (CLAS) and the American Heart Association, hosted a two-day regional workshop entitled ‘School Health in Latin America: Intersectoral NCD Prevention and Management’ that focused on strengthening partnerships.. →
Webinar: Health literacy in schools: an education asset in the 21st century
On 21 January 2021 from 14.00 – 15.00 CET, the interactive webinar “Health literacy in schools: an education asset in the 21st century” will take place. The webinar is part of the Global Health & Education webinar series and organised by the UNESCO Chair Global Health.. →
School Health in Latin America: Intersectoral NCD Prevention and Management
On the 14th and 15th of December NCD Child, in partnership with the Healthy Latin America Coalition (CLAS) and the American Heart Association organize two days of dialogue around the theme: School Health in Latin America: Intersectoral NCD Prevention and Management. The webinar will be held in.. →
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