Changing the Story: Collaboration & Solutions for Migrant Health

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Overview

Migration is often framed as a challenge—but it’s also a powerful driver of diversity, innovation, and resilience. This session calls on stakeholders to shift the narrative, recognize migrants as agents of their own health, and co-create inclusive solutions. 

In the context of the World Health Assembly, we’ll elevate lived experiences, foster dialogue, and seed new collaborations. Through participatory roundtables, we’ll tackle shared challenges and explore practical responses in mental health, research, and community leadership. Together, we can build momentum for dignity-based health systems that leave no one behind.                
 

Session Format & Structure

The session will be organized in two parts 

1. Opening:                     
Framing the session around narrative change and collaboration

• Potentially featuring a migrant testimony or interview with a journalist
• Santino Severoni will present "WHO global action plan on promoting the health of refugees and migrants,2019–2030" ^{1, 2}

2. Collective Intelligence Roundtables (choose your theme):

• 1. Data & Research: Improving quality, equity, and narrative approaches
• 2. Mental Health: Bridging systemic gaps through culturally responsive care
• 3. Migrants as Actors: Co-creating care and community leadership

Participants select a topic and work together for ~45 minutes to share experiences, identify needs, and propose joint solutions,

Wrap-Up:                      
Each table shares a takeaway or emerging idea

Networking Coffee Break:                      
Networking Coffee Break: Open space for follow-up conversations and informal collaboration.

Speakers

	Khaled Ismael                Professor               University of Prague
	Santino Severoni                      Direcotr of Health and Migration department                      World Health Organization
	Yves Jackson                     Head of                      Geneva University Hospitals
	Karl Blanchet                             Director of Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies                University of Prague
	Maria Melchior                             Directeur de recherche                     Inserm
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