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IAHPEDS Engagement with the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education

William Potts-Datema, DrPH, MS, MCHES®

IAHPEDS Virtual Roundtable Sessions

November 14, 2020

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A UNESCO Chair together with a WHO Collaborating Centre

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The Global Health and Education

UNESCO Chair and UNITWIN network

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The UNESCO & UNITWIN program enhances the capacity of higher education & research institutions through the exchange and sharing of knowledge at a global level.

Connecting knowledge, committing to children’s health

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Open community

  • Dynamic gathering with common ambition
  • A project that adjusts itself
  • Members are central
  • Equal balance and inclusive
  • Anyone can join

http://unescochair-ghe.org/members/open-community/

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The community now…

  • People from 115 countries
  • Universities, local communities, networks, associations and organisations in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, Oceania

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The community now…

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Added value for you…

  • Recognition
  • Visibility
  • Advocacy

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  • Up-scaling research
  • Intersectorality
  • Dissemination
  • Collaboration
  • Inspiration
  • Support
  • Funding schemes

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Vision for the UNESCO Chair

  • Create conditions for children and young people to take charge of their lives
  • As individuals, members of their community and as global citizens
  • For all matters related to health

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A focus on the life ecosystem

of children and young people

Family

Schools

Health, social and educational sectors

Community

Children and young people

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The field of health promotion - health education - prevention

Health promotion / health education / prevention as social practices and not a set of fixed paradigms, strategies and research methods.

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The field of health promotion - health education - prevention

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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.

  • Action on life ecosystems
  • Education of people

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The field of health promotion - health education - prevention

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Increase:

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  • Visibility
  • Recognition
  • Social impact

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A strategy of social change

A shared vision:

Charter

Mix scientific and practice knowledge

Complex health interactions

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A Strategy

A Vision

Mix of knowledge

Complex health interactions

Building blocks

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Chair’s 5 activities

  1. Mapping key players
  2. Creating new research framework
  3. Producing knowledge: Innovative research
  4. Capacity building
  5. Sharing knowledge

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Connect with the Chair

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@UNESCOchairGHE

UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education

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As a member of the UNESCO Chair community, you are the UNESCO Chair!

www.unescochair-ghe.org