WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: Health Meets Peace: WHO's Global Health and Peace Initiative (GHPI): Overview and Cameroon Case Study
Date: 8. Okt. 2024 12:30 PM in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien
Introduction:
Approximately 80% of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s humanitarian caseload and 70% of disease outbreaks that WHO responds to take place in Fragile, Conflict affected and Vulnerable (FCV) settings. Armed conflict obstructs the delivery of equitable healthcare and can directly affect health systems, including the collapse of medical supply chains; the exodus of health care workers; attacks on health care and upsurges in disease outbreak and food insecurity. To respond to the complex and urgent health needs emerging in a rapidly changing world order, WHO-with the championing of Oman and Switzerland-launched the Global Health and Peace Initiative (GHPI) in November 2019 with the aim of better addressing the underlying drivers of critical health needs in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings. Addressing those social determinants of health which aggravate existing inequalities and vulnerabilities is critical for achieving sustainable health outcomes globally.
Objective:
The objective of the first session of this webinar series is to provide an overview of – and discuss – the Global Health and Peace Initiative, what it is and is not; and to illustrate what ‘Health and Peace programming’ can look like through the case of a WHO-IOM project implemented in Cameroon titled ‘Peace through health: Peacebuilding and violence reduction in communities in the far-north through inclusive health and social interventions’ (2021-2023), funded by the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF).
Speakers:
Opening remarks: Altaf Musani
Director, Health Emergencies Interventions (HEI), WHO HQ
Mathilde Boddaert, Technical Officer, GHPI, WHO HQ
Claver Lotsa Momo, Peace through Health Project Coordinator, WHO Cameroon
