GPHW2024: Fostering the Development of the Right Competencies within Tomorrow’s Health Workforce
News
Apr 4, 2024
Theme: Enhancing and Democratizing Governance in Global Health
Date and Time: 12th April 2024 | 12:00-13:30 (CEST)
Event Description: We are faced with an emerging set of public health challenges because of war and conflict, as a result of political instability and climate catastrophe. Injury and death, and the physical and psychological impact of violence on individual and population health cannot be underestimated, especially for the most marginalized in society, and across generations. The impact on infrastructure can devastate health systems and economies. Consequently, the contribution of public health to promote peace and equity has never been more important. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the need for a new set of core public health competencies to meet these emerging challenges.
ASPHER’s curriculum review has been guided by the need to train tomorrow’s workforce in high-level communication, the role of the built environment, 21st-century field epidemiology, criminal justice, disaster preparedness, and health system resilience and sustainability. The specific challenges of war and conflict for public health will be addressed in this discussion.
There will be an expert panel and Q&A session with the online audience. We understand the importance of building vital capacity amongst public health professionals together with affected communities.
The panel will include public health curriculum design experts. They will describe ASPHER’s curriculum approach so far, touching on the new public health realities such as Climate Health, the One Health agenda, and the ethics of public health. We will engage the audience in a discussion of how these relate to our development of a War, Conflict, and Public Health curriculum. What should public health professionals do to enhance their skills in preventing violence? responding to violent conflict? and in recovery and rehabilitation from conflict situations? We will set out an agenda for a series of subsequent meetings to discuss the areas of work needed in more detail.
Event Type: Panel discussion & round table
Event Format: Online
Language(s): English
Organiser(s): ASPHER
How to Attend Virtually: Contact ASPHER
Registration: N/A