Please register for the event here.Migration – Involving diverse movements of people within and between countries and regions, including refugees - is a key determinant of health, but evidence-informed policy and programme responses to address migration and health remain limited.
The
Cluster of Research Excellence in Migration and Health (CoRE) is an initiative by universities and key national and international stakeholders across the African Union(AU) and European Union (EU), one of the largest migration corridors globally, taking a whole of route approach.This corridor is associated with multiple health concerns determined by a range of structural and social factors that are experienced differently by diverse migrant groups and the communities through which they move, live and work. The satellite event hosted by the CoRE and invites students, researchers, practitioners, policy makers and others in migration and health to engage, discuss and jointly idenitify areas of action to address health challenges of refugees and migrants, especially focusing on translation of evidence into policy and practice, along the AU - EU migration corridor and beyond. The event will include talks and panel discussions involving key actors including researchers, policy makers and practitioners. The attendees will also be requested to actievely contribute to jointly identify priority areas for the CoRE .
During the satellite event, the CoRE will be officially launched. This is an initiative strongly supported by 2 European (Uppsala University, UCLouvain) and 3 African (Witwatersrand, Addis Ababa, Ghana) universities and many other key partners such as the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migrations. In line with the AU - EU Innovation Agenda, CoRE will address the key scientific, policy and practice challenges in the field of migration and health across the AU-EU migration corridor. The CoRE will develop collaborative educational acitivities, research and policy to generate evidence-informed, cross-country policy approaches to support good health for migrants and migration-impacted communities along the AU-EU migration corridor.
The satellite event will be an avenue for all relevant stakeholders to meet identify areas for collaboration.
RegistrationPlease register for the event
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Contact personsLooking forward to welcoming you to the launch of the CoRE.
- Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil, EU/GUILD Co-Lead, Uppsala University
- Jo Vearey, AU/ARUA Co-Lead, University of the Witwatersrand
- Jecinta Atieno Okumu, Coordinator CoRE, Uppsala University
Preliminary Agenda
The speakers during the event will be from intergovernmetnal organisations, UN agencies, national agencies, NGOs and researchers. An updated agenda will be send to all registered participants at a later stage.
9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee- 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome (Uppsala University)
- 10:30 – 11:00 What is GUILD-ARUA Cluster of Research Excellence? by Jo Vearey & Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil
- 11:00 – 12:00 The role of International organisations in promoting refugee and migrant health
- 12:00 – 12:30 How can research inform policy and practice in refugee and migrant health: lessons from Africa and Europe?
12:30 -13:30 Lunch - 13.30 -14:30 Panel discussio: How can national agencies contribute to addressing refugee and migrant health challenges across the AU-EU migration corridor
- 14.30 -14:45 Coffeen/tea break.
- 14.45 -15:45 Co-creation workshop (to generate ideas on what the cluster should focus on)
- - Building AU-EU graduate student networks in the field of migration & health
- - Evidence to action: inter-continental policy processes
- - Participatory and transdisciplinary approaches in evidence generation
- 15:45 – 16:00 Wrap-up
Keywords:
Migration, Displacement, health inequality, Global Health
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