Healthy People on a Healthy Planet – Round up 2020

In the first cross-border collaboration of its kind, global health North-South Ireland partners came together to co-host this year’s Global Health conference, 2020. The live web event was convened under the theme: Healthy People on a Healthy Planet Five Years on from the SDGs in the era of COVID-19.

Partners included: The Irish Global Health Network (IGHN) ; Queen’s University Belfast; the Department of Health Northern Ireland; the Coalition of Aid and Development Agencies in Northern Ireland; the Environmental Association of Ireland and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. 

In the context of the major global health challenges facing populations, the conference tracked progress five years on from the SDGs and examined areas of concern in the era of COVID-19.  The conference brought together 28 leading international speakers and more than 150 live participants.

The two-day 2020 programme was consolidated under the following streams: Migration, Non-Communicable Diseases, Climate and Environment, Global Food Supply, Eye Health and Vision 2020, Nursing and Midwifery in the WHO Designated International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and COVID-19.

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