The Fondation Mérieux is hosting the 7th Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Course: A One Health Challenge from November 9–13, 2026 at the Les Pensières Center for Global Health 🇫🇷.

This intensive residential training, organized in collaboration with Université Paris Cité, tackles the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance 🦠—a major challenge to modern medicine. Guided by the World Health Organization’s Global Action Plan, the course focuses on translating strategy into real-world action through a One Health approach 🌍.

Over five days, participants will explore key themes including awareness, surveillance, multi-sector interventions, responsible antimicrobial use, and the economic and social dimensions of AMR. The program is designed primarily for professionals from low- and middle-income countries, aiming to strengthen decision-making, foster collaboration, and build sustainable global networks 🤝.

📅 Registration deadline: May 18, 2026
💡 Limited fellowships are available to support eligible participants.

Dear Global Health & Migration Community Members (GHHG),

Please save the date for our regular community meeting on Nov 18, from 15:00 to 16:00 (Berlin time).

The meeting will take place via BigBlueButton: https://webinare.e-collaboration.eu/b/rooms/quy-4tp-alp-s0p/join

PW: nw6jwp 

Agenda: Details TBC

Warm regards,

Sonu, Henna & Zahra

for the Global Health and Migration Community, Global Health Hub Germany

The event calendar for 2026: 

The 9th Community Health Conference will take place on November 19–20, 2026, at the Gesundheitscampus Bochum. 🏥🌍

The conference focuses on creating conditions and implementing measures to ensure comprehensive health participation for all. It highlights health promotion, prevention, and care initiatives from diverse perspectives, emphasizing the needs of specific communities. 💡🤝

Through interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and participatory approaches, the event explores ways to reduce social and health inequalities, combat discrimination, and remove barriers to health. Participants will engage in discussions, collaborative action, and networking, generating ideas to develop health-promoting processes and structures within everyday life, practice, and research. 🏘️✨

The conference encourages practical solutions and shared learning to advance Community Health for all.

The “Climate, Justice, and Health” Expert Conference will be held on November 19–20, 2026, as an in-person event at Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal. 🌍☀️

The conference focuses on the health impacts of climate change and their unequal distribution, particularly affecting socially disadvantaged groups, older adults, people with chronic illnesses, and workers in physically demanding outdoor jobs. It will explore how scientific findings can be effectively translated into health-promoting practice. 💡🏥

Targeting applied researchers from universities, institutes, companies, and professional associations, the event also welcomes students and alumni. Key topics include heat, UV, and climate-related occupational hazards; environmental impacts on vulnerable populations; and climate-related risks for older and chronically ill individuals.

A strong emphasis will be placed on project implementation, evaluation, and communication, including participatory approaches and effective reporting of climate-related health risks. Participants will gain insights into practical strategies to reduce health inequities and promote resilience in the face of climate change. 🌱🤝

 🌍🌱 On November 19–20, 2026, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences will host a conference focused on “Climate, Justice and Health”. The event will bring together researchers, practitioners, students, and professionals working at the intersection of public health, social equity, and climate change.

The conference will explore the health impacts of climate change and their unequal effects on vulnerable populations, including socially disadvantaged groups, older adults, people with chronic illnesses, and workers in physically demanding outdoor occupations. Discussions will also address how research findings can be effectively translated into health promotion practice and prevention strategies.

Participants can expect presentations and exchanges on climate-related health risks, project evaluation, community engagement, and communication strategies aimed at building healthier and more resilient societies. ♻️🤝