Changing the Story: Collaboration & Solutions for Migrant Health

Migration is often framed as a challenge—but it’s also a powerful driver of diversity, innovation, and resilience. This session calls on stakeholders to shift the narrative, recognize migrants as agents of their own health, and co-create inclusive solutions. In the context of the World Health Assembly, we’ll elevate lived experiences, foster dialogue, and seed new collaborations. Through participatory roundtables, we’ll tackle shared challenges and explore practical responses in mental health, research, and community leadership. Together, we can build momentum for dignity-based health systems that leave no one behind.

During this session JJ Keith, photographer, kindly shares his exhibition of portraits “Open Britain: Portrait of a Diverse Nation”. JJ Keith sets out the use of his camera to capture and celebrate the contributions migrants have made to the life in the UK within the healthcare system, and particularly the NHS, in this collaboration carried out with the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.