Research & publications from our European Hub
Latest Research & Publications
Year 2026
The mental health toll of the Iran-Israel-US conflict on the Iranian diaspora
Shervin Shahnavaz, Farzaneh Badinlou, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Zohreh Khazraeimanesh, Lars Lien, Karl Blanchet, Bernadette Nirmal Kumar
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
March 8th 2026
Iran’s humanitarian crisis: war, legality, and the erosion of population health
Karl Blanchet, Sultan Barakatb, Bernadette Kumar, Paul Spiegel
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
March 17th 2026
Impact of a changing political environment on research on migration and health
Esperanza Diaz, Ietza Bojorquez, Rosemary Jouhaud, Gabriel Fabreau, Karl Blanchet
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
February 20th 2026
Year 2025
Climate change, migration, displacement, and health: past, present, and future
Anand Bhopal, Shilpa Rao, Rosemary Jouhaud, Baltica Cabieses, Kolitha Wickramage, Ietza Bojorquez, Paul Spiegel, Ibrahim Abubakeri, Karl Blanchet, Bernadette N Kumar
The Lancet
December 17th 2025
Announcing the Lancet Migration European Hub and the Lancet Regional Health-Europe Commission on climate change, migration, displacement and health
Bernadette N. Kumar, Anand S. Bhopal, Sylvia Garry, Rosemary Jouhaud, Ozge Karadag, Miriam Orcutt, Shilpa Rao, Shervin Shahnavaz, Santino Severoni, Amirhossein Takian, Pooja Jha, Karl Blanchet
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
December 2025
Europe must act: a unified call to end complicity in the Gaza famine and genocide
Karl Blanchet, Sultan Barakat, Benjam Schmid, Orit Abrahim, Ghassan Abu-Sittah
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
August 2025
The Halifax Declaration: protecting health, dignity, and human rights in an era of forced displacement
Gabriel E. Fabreau, Annalee Coakley, Sarah K. Clarke, Nesma El-Shazly, Apostolos Veizis,c Joanne Liu, Patrick Bodenmann, William M. Stauffer, Anisa Ibrahim, Nathan S. Bertelsen, Allen Keller, Karl Blanchet, and Bernadette Nirmal Kumar
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
July 2025
Deployment and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and migrants in regular and irregular situations: a mixed-method multicountry study
Pierina Benavente, Vinay N Kampalath, Moussa Lonkila Zan, Nguyen Toan Tran, Elżbieta Anna Czapka, Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour, Enrique Teran Biraj Man Karmacharya, Anjali Joshi, Jai K Das , Cheryl Martens, Zahra A Padhani, Vicente B Jurlano, Maria Midea M Kabamalan, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Karl Blanchet
BMJ Open
January 2025
Year 2024
Exploring differences in the utilization of the emergency department between migrant and non-migrant populations: a systematic review
Giulia Acquadro Pacera, Martina Valente, Giulia Facci, Bereket Molla Kiros, Francesco Della Corte, Francesco Barone Adesi, Luca Ragazzoni, and Monica Trentin
BMC Public Health
April 2024
The immune status of migrant populations in Europe and implications for vaccine-preventable disease control: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Zeinab Cherri, Karen Lau, Laura B Nellums, Jan Himmels, Anna Deal, Emma McGuire, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Marie Norredam, Alison Crawshaw, Jessica Carter, Farah Seedat, Nuria Sanchez Clemente, Oumnia Bouaddi, Jon S Friedland, Michael Edelstein and Sally Hargreaves
Journal of Travel Medicine
February 2024
Year 2023
Integration of migrant and refugee data in health information systems in Europe: advancing evidence, policy and practice
Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Martin McKee, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Jozef Bartovic, Ines Campos-Matos, Tsvetelina-Ivanova Gerganova, Ailish Hannigan, Jelena Janković, Daniela Kállayová, Josiah Kaplan, Ilker Kayi, Elias Kondilis, Lene Lundberg, Isabel de la Mata, Aleksandar Medarević, Jozef Suvada, Kolitha Wickramage, Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil
The Lancet Regional Health Europe
November 2023
An urgent call to save and protect lives of vulnerable populations in the Gaza Strip
Abdallah Abudayya, Khaled AbuGhali, Sally Hargreaves, Karl Blanchet, Espen Bjertness, Anand S. Bhopal, Charles Agyemang, Gerd Holmboe-Ottersen, Raj S. Bhopal, Allan Krasnik, Sonia Dias, Lars Lien, Anuj Kapilashrami, Bernadette N. Kumar
The Lancet Regional Health Europe
October 21, 2023
Year 2022
15th European Public Health Conference Pre-conference Summary: Health System Responses to Migration: From crisis mode to diversity-sensitive inclusive systems
Young Professionals of the Lancet Migration European Regional Hub: Mathura Kugan, Chrysanthi Tatsi, Karen Lau, Rosie James, Louise Biddle and Saleh Aljadeeah
5 December 2022
Lancet Migration European Regional Hub: Working together towards inclusive, evidence-based outcomes for promoting and protecting the health of migrants in the European Region: Comment
Rosemary James, Karl Blanchet, Bernadette Nirmal Kumar
The Lancet Regional Health Europe
29 October 2022
Time to reconcile migration and health in Europe: Correspondence
Karl Blanchet
The Lancet Regional Health Europe
12 September 2022
Meeting the health needs of displaced people fleeing Ukraine: Drawing on existing technical guidance and evidence: Viewpoint
The Lancet Regional Health Europe
06 May 2022
Health-care provision for displaced populations arriving from Ukraine: Comment
Alena Kamenshchikova, Ioana Margineau, Shazia Munir, Felicity Knights, Jessica Carter, Ana Requena-Mendez, Yusuf Ciftci, Rosemary A James, Miriam Orcutt, Karl Blanchet, Apostolos Veizis, Bernadette Kumar, Teymur Noori, Sally Hargreaves
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
08 April 2022
Year 2021
Reducing the impact of the coronavirus on disadvantaged migrants and ethnic minorities: Journal Article
European Journal of Public Health
November 2021
Policy briefs
Year 2021
Pushbacks at European borders put the health and lives of people in danger: Policy Statement
December 2021
Climate, Migration and Health Research in the European Region: Policy Statement
November 2021