11/21/2019
Global Health Collaborative UMass Dartmouth College Nursing/Health Sciences
Faculty and students from the 2018 ‘Bridging the Atlantic’ student exchange between UMass Dartmouth and University of the Azores arrived yesterday at the 12th Annual European Public Health Conference in Marseille, France to present three posters related to the exchange.
The conference, “Building bridges for solidarity and public health,” has over 2000 attendees from across the globe with a focus in public health in Europe and Africa. The goal is to seek solutions to shared challenges as inhabitants of a small planet now face global threats from climate change, emerging infections, and the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases.
Many robust discussions regarding how to reduce the need for people to move from their homes, and how to protect those who are forced to; provision of inter professional health promoting and protecting environments for migrants in Europe, how to build bridges between different professions and communities as a means to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, and chart the future of public health in Europe.
We are six of very few nurses and delegates from the US here but have learned a lot and are inspired to advocate for change and share the current and future challenges associated with public health across the globe ✌🏽❤️ 🌍
