GPHW2024: Supporting Sustainable and Thriving Communities

Theme: Promoting a Sustainable Life for Thriving Communities

Date and Time: 11th April 2024 | 12:00 – 13:00 (GMT)

Event Description: This webinar, organized by the FPH Emergency Services and Sustainable Development SIGs, will explore how communities can be supported to become more resilient, enabling them to be better prepared in the face of emergencies, and the role of emergency services in this work. We will discuss themes of violence, adverse weather events, and sustainability, and consider the win-win outcomes of resilience building.

Event Link

Event Type: Seminar / Webinar

Event Format: online

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): FPH Emergency Services and Sustainable Development SIGs

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom Link (will be sent after registration)

Registration: Link

GPHW2024: Cultural Competency in Perinatal Mental Health

Theme: Putting Mental Wellbeing on the Health Agenda

Date and Time: 10th April 2024 | 16:00 – 17:00 (GMT)

Event Description: During this webinar, organized by the FPH Women’s Health SIG, speakers will present on a range of topics including:

• Research around perinatal depression and anxiety in India and UK settings.
• Evaluating the expansion of maternal mental health services.
• Developing Maternal and Perinatal Mental Health services from trauma-informed and health inequalities principles.

Event Link

Event Type: Seminar / Webinar

Event Format: online

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): FPH Women’s Health SIG

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom Link (will be sent after registration)

Registration: Link

GPHW2024: Investigating and addressing inequities on the mental health impacts of climate change

Theme: Putting Mental Wellbeing on the Health Agenda

Date and Time: 10th April 2024 | 12:00 – 13:30 (GMT)

Event Description: The United Nations has recognized that mental distress is a challenge for humanity in navigating our future of uncertain and complex times, not least climate change and widening inequalities. This webinar will share knowledge on understanding the mental health inequities associated with climate change and discuss the public health approaches that can be used to reduce them.

This webinar has been organized by the following FPH SIGs:

• Public Mental Health
• Academic Public Health
• Sustainable Development
• Poverty

Event Link

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: online

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): Public Mental Health SIG, Academic Public Health SIG, Sustainable Development SIG, and Poverty SIG

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom Link (will be sent after registration)

Registration: Link

GPHW2024: Addressing NCDs: how can public health approaches have the most impact in low resource settings?

Theme: Enhancing and Democratizing Governance in Global Health

Date and Time: 9th April 2024 | 12:00 – 13:00 (GMT)

Event Description: This webinar is organised by the FPH Non-communicable Diseases in Low and Middle-Income Countries SIG and will feature inputs from:

1. Emergencies/Humanitarian situations
2. Sustainable approaches to prevention in light of Universal Health Coverage goals and;
3. The specificities of provider skills/clinical practice that require different resources/training/ approaches to addressing acute illness.

Event Link

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: online

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): FPH Non-communicable Diseases in Low and Middle-Income Countries SIG

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom Link (will be sent after registration)

Registration: Link

GPHW2024: What’s Love Got To Do With It? Social love as an approach to public health and violence prevention

Theme: Rethinking Public Health Paradigms

Date and Time: 8th April 2024 | 09:30 – 10:30 (GMT)

Event Description: The term ‘social love’ describes the motivation and actions of a system, organization, or institution (and people working within them), for the collective good, increasing the well-being of another, self, community, and the environment. With a collective affective quality, it involves care, respect, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, and trust, valuing the other, self, community, and environment, and remaining open and receptive.

Public health systems dominated by biomedical models of care often neglect ‘social love’, to the potential detriment of those providing and using public health services. With mounting evidence that human connection and compassion are associated with the delivery of high-quality healthcare, increased health outcomes, and societal well-being, now is the time to recognize the unlocked potential of social love as a concept that could enhance public health discourse, introducing a new way to analyze problems, and deliver interventions. The concept of social love goes beyond traditional concepts of “compassionate care” in taking an asset-based and systems-level approach, focused on rethinking public health narratives, systems, and interventions to elevate protective factors across populations.

We will also consider the role of power and civic engagement in promoting public health and socially loving approaches.

Distributions of power are a key determinant of health; power imbalances in society have detrimental impacts on population health and are a key driver of inequalities. Considering the community-level impacts and solutions to disempowerment and power imbalances can contribute to creating systems and environments that form part of the social love approach.

This webinar will demonstrate the potential value of social love and power as concepts to improve public health practice and decision-making to promote population health and wellbeing, highlighting the positive impact social love could have on addressing key public health issues, such as violence prevention.

Event Link

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: online

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): FPH Emergency Services SIG, FPH Global Violence SIG, and the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA)

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom Link (will be sent after registration)

Registration: Link