Promoting Peace and Health: Public Health’s Role

Amid increasingly destructive violent conflicts and the ongoing climate crisis and environmental degradation, we open a breakfast discussion on the health sector’s role as an indispensable contributor to peace and security policy, using established public health frameworks to address war and the logic of war as preventable determinants of ill health.

Peace is a fundamental social determinant of health. There is a growing consensus among public health and medical students that the integration of peace, security and conflict sensitivity must be central to their professional training. Participants on the panel will advocate for the adoption of a global norm to integrate these principles into public health curricula, thereby encouraging health leadership for peace at the national and international levels.

This is an open event to WHO delegates and Member State representatives, global health and peace researchers, medical and public health students, civil society and policy-oriented organizations, and selected health and peace focused journalists. No registration needed.