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WHO Collaborating Center on Health and Migration Evidence and Capacity Building

The World Health Organization designated the National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty - INMP as WHO Collaborating Center on Health and Migration Evidence and Capacity Building. The designation as WHO Collaborating Centre is effective for a period of four years, as from 30^th April 2019, and will automatically end on 30^th April 2023 unless redesignation be approved by WHO before that date.

ToR:

1. To support WHO in the development of the 2018 WHO European Refugee and Migrants' Health Publication
2. To support WHO in the development of the WHO European guidance on health checks for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers at the borders

Subjects:

1. Health information; statistics; measurement & trend assessment
2. Research policy & development
3. Health systems research & development

Types of activity:

1. Collection and collation of information
2. Product development (guidelines; manual; methodologies; etc.)
3. Training and education

WHO Outputs:

• A social determinants of health approach to improving health and reducing health inequities integrated in national, regional and global health programmes and strategies, as well as in WHO
• Indirect management and administration of access to medicines and health technologies and strengthening regulatory capacity
• Improved country policies, capacities and intersectoral actions for addressing the social determinants of health and reducing health inequities through “health-in-all-policies”, governance and universal health coverage approaches in the proposed sustainable development goals

More details are available on WHO Collaborating Centres global database 

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WHO CC Activities

Evidence production		Capacity building		Training and education		WHO CC Network
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WHO CC Focus on

		The first WHO World Report on the health of refugees and migrants has been released The first World Report on the health of refugees and migrants, launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the framework of the WHO Health and Migration Programme, has been published. The Report brings together the available evidence on the health challenges faced by migrants and refugees in the migration route and in countries of transit and arrival in the six WHO Regions (Africa, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, Americas, and Western Pacific), highlighting good practices in place and further policies and actions to be implemented for health of migrants and refugees to be protected worldwide. Read more >>
		Collection and integration of data on refugee and migrant health in the WHO European Region (2021) This technical guidance outlines current evidence, knowledge and best practice relating to the integration of migration health data into national health information systems. It highlights key principles, summarizes priority actions and challenges, maps existing international commitments and frameworks and provides practical policy considerations for promoting collection and integration of migration health data. Read more >>
		Strategies and interventions on preventing and responding to violence and injuries among refugees and migrants (2020) This technical guidance outlines current evidence, knowledge and best practice relating to incidences of violence and injuries among refugees and migrants in the WHO European Region. It highlights key principles, summarizes priority actions and challenges, maps existing international commitments and frameworks and provides practical policy considerations for preventing and responding to such challenges. Read more >>