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This free online event will be hosted by and web-streamed from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
It is crucial to build competency on public health aspects of migration and support knowledge sharing about health and migration issues. The WHO organizes yearly the Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health.
The event will feature high-level keynote speeches, keynote lectures from international experts, presentations of relevant research studies, interactive Q&A sessions, and live panel discussions, as well as a series of reportage from different settings presenting the state of the health challenges for refugees and migrants and the responses on the ground.
Modules over five days
The modules are delivered over five days from 25-29 October 2021, every day from 2 PM to 3.30 PM Geneva time.
You can find the draft agenda and registration link here.
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The target audience is health leaders, decision makers and government officers. Researchers, academia, representatives of non-governmental organizations and journalists are also welcome to join.
The Global School promotes evidence-informed and best practice interventions important to adapting health systems to the health needs and rights of refugees and migrants worldwide, and, by doing so, contributes to advancing the WHO Global Action Plan ‘Promoting the health of refugees and migrants 2019-2023’.