The fourth edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop will take place from 4 till 6 June 2024 as an online event.

The main theme of this year’s workshop is ‘How can community health contribute to fighting poverty?’ The workshop will explore the root causes of poverty, and how poverty impacts community health. The value of community-based interventions – as a research method and also as a key health promotion strategy – should be recognised in this work. The workshop will be solution oriented. This year’s focus of capacity-building for the participants will be on ‘advocacy and activism’.

The workshop provides a space where community health and health promotion practitioners and policy makers can improve their skills and where researchers can gain in capacities to conduct community-based participatory research.

You can now register for the fourth edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop. Registration will close on Tuesday 28 May 2024, 16.00 CEST. Participating in the workshop is free of charge. For questions please send an email to info@unescochair-ghe.org.

The online lectures are held in English and French. We do not want language to be a barrier for participation. Therefore we are trying to organise simultaneous translation.

Speakers

We are honoured to have excellent contributors from all over the world. A preview of the contributors:

• Joyce Browne – Associate Professor Global Health / Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Elizabeth Cherian Paramesh – Professor, CEO of Lakeside Medical Center for Health Promotion, Director of Lakeside Education Trust and HP foundation, Bangalore, India, President of the Alliance for Health Promotion, Switzerland
• Iffat Elbarazi – Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates 
• Ange-Marie Nicodème Esse – Community Health Advocate, Co-Founder Health Access Initiative, Benin
• Alice Lakati – Director of Research and Community Extension, Amref International University, Kenia
• Alay Llamas – Project manager and teaching fellow for global health education and capacity-building activities, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Patricia Loayza Millan – Adviser on social development, La Paz, Bolivia
• François Ndikumwenayo – Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Burundi University, Founder and Chairperson of Burundi NCD Alliance, Burundi
• Alexis Nizigiyimana – Project manager at Burundi NCD Alliance, Founder and CEO of Ubuntu Village of Life, Burundi
• Jennie Popay – Professor of Sociology and Public Health in the Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, UK
• Amets Suess Schwend – Andalusian School of Public Health,  Area of International Health, University of Granada, Spain