Geneva Health Forum Channel

Presentation :

The precarious conditions to which migrants are subjected affect their physical and mental health. Migrants face numerous obstacles to accessing essential health services: irregular status, language barriers, lack of health policies that include them, and inaccessibility of services. The high morbidity and mortality rates among migrants, especially in cases of irregular or forced migration or exploitation, constitute a major underestimated health problem that deserves more attention.

In recent years, several international initiatives have attempted to provide global frameworks for action to tackle these difficulties, but the situation remains fragile.

This session will provide a common understanding of the situation of the health and well-being of migrants and refugees. We will try to understand the main health issues facing migrants and refugees. We would like also to understand the main obstacles to improving health and access to healthcare for migrants and refugees. Finally we will make an overview of the different global initiatives done to improve the health of the refugees and migrants.

Moderator :

Luciano Saso M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies Italy

Speakers :

	Santino Severoni Health and Migration Department of World Health Organization (WHO) Switzerland
	Allen Maina United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Switzerland
	Poonam Dhavan International Organization for Migration (IOM) Switzerland
	Bernadette Nirmal Kumar Lancet Migration European Regional Hub, Norwegian Institute of Public Health United Kingdom
	Katia Gamazina PATH Ukraine
	Kailing Marcus Tsinghua University, University of Geneva China, Switzerland
	Alexandra Cordukes Film Director of "Dalal's Story", Winner of the film festival "Health for all" "Migrants and Refugees Health category" Australia

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