MHADRI
The Migration, Health, and Development Research Initiative
About
The Migration Health and Development Research Initiative (MHADRI) aims to advance evidence-informed global policies and practices that will improve the health and wellbeing of people and communities affected by migration.
The network aims to develop an international community of practice focused on the generation of quality, ethical, and rights-based research to inform the development of policy and programming to improve the health and wellbeing of people on the move.
Global mapping of training and capacity building programmes in migration and health
Involved in migration and health teaching, training or capacity building initiatives? Join us in building an open source database of migration and health training resources.
We invite anyone involved in developing or implementing any training or capacity building initiative in the field of migration and health to participate in a short online survey.
Call for papers: BMJ Series on Migration and Health
A series involving collaboration between MHADRI, IOM and the BMJ. Papers are policy perspectives and analytical pieces of up to 2000 words in length.
The BMJ encourages submissions from a diverse range of stakeholders. Perspectives from countries in the global south, and papers written collaboratively between researchers and policy makers are encouraged.
Resisting Borders: A Virtual Conference on Refugee & Migrant Health, Mobility, Human Rights & Responsibilities (June 2020)
First convened in 2017, Resisting Borders: Refugee and Migrant Health and Responsibilities is a no travel, online, no fee conference aimed at discussing ethical issues surrounding responsibilities for the health of refugees, asylum-seekers, and other migrant and displaced people.
We are now inviting contributions for a second conference to be held in June 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th 2020, 7 am – 9 am Eastern Standard Time, as a satellite to the World Congress of Bioethics.
As before, we will convene for a few hours during each of the four days.
The theme of the 2020 Resisting Borders conference will be Caring on the Landscape of Displacement: Mapping Moral Experience in Health Services for Migrants.
Call for Papers: Psychosocial Perspectives on Migration and Health
Call for Papers: Psychosocial Perspectives on Migration and Health Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. 1st May 2020 Seminar convenors: Anna Shadrina (Birkbeck) and Ayelen Hamity (IoE-UCL) Seminar sponsorship: Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust ISSF This session seeks to provide a psychosocial reflection into migration and health….
Symposium and launch of Health and Migration Collaborative Community at Maastricht University
On 25 May 2020, the 1st Symposium on Migration, Health and Integration will take place. The symposium, a collaboration between the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/UNU-MERIT (with the Maastricht Centre for Global Health and the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development) and the Radboud University Network on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI) in Nijmegen, will highlight the complex intersections between migration, health and integration through discussions around both research and practise.
The symposium will bring together academics, including students and early career researchers, health professionals, policymakers and representatives of civil society to discuss issues related to migrant health.
The event will also mark the official launch of the Health and Migration Collaborative Community website, a growing resource portal that provides short analytical reviews and other support materials for academics, practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders interested in issues related to migration and health.
