School Health and Nutrition Webinar Series

​Why is eye health promotion in schools important? What are its components?
What are the cost drivers and costs for school-based vision screening at scale? ​
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Margarita Franco, Save the Children El Salvador 
Augusto Costas. Save the Children Bolivia
Lesley Graham, Save the Children USA

How do you integrate physical activity into school programs given the constraints of space and time? An opportunity to learn from Save the Children’s experience in the Americas:

• El Salvador's health program that promotes healthy lifestyles focusing on nutrition, physical and emotional health. 
• Bolivia’s “moving recess” and other strategies, what works better and why
• Healthy Choices in the United States, exploring the successes and challenges of monitoring and evaluating outcomes​

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​This session explores the pitfalls relating to the very wide scope of the social role of schooling as well as in the various methods/entry points and the practical realities and capacities of school systems in different contexts (low resource, high resource and conflict/disaster-affected)? 

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Ben Faten Abdelaziz, World Health Organization, 
Didier Jourdan,  University of Clermont-Auvergne
Goof Buijs, Schools for Health Consultancy
Yuka Makino, World Health Organization 

​What is the WHO's strategy for Health Promoting Schools and how is that linked with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the WHO's 13th General Programme of Work? What learnings do the School for Health in Europe Network provide to fill gaps between policy and practice in high and low resource settings? What are the next steps for a renewed Health Promoting Schools Approach? 

Jacquelyn Haver, Save the Children 
Penelope Phillips-Howard, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine​ 

This webinar presents the results of a pilot feasibility study and follow-up trial from Kisumu, Western Kenya, testing the value of providing menstrual cups to school girls.  It outlines the effects and the costs of  menstrual-specific intervetions versus broader initiatives  have on adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health; school enrolment, retention, and attainment.

The webinar highlights the new tools are under development to assess the outcomes of menstrual health programming on girls' related self-efficacy, stress, and school participation.

​Prof Donald Bundy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The latest edition of DCP includes for the first time a volume on child and adolescent health and development. This proposes two Essential Packages, one specifically for School Age Children. As the lead editor for Volume 8, Professor Bundy will explore the why, what and how of this proposition.​

​Dr Bella Monse​(GIZ), ​Denise Duijster (ACTA), Habib Benzian (NYU)​

Oral diseases are among the most common diseases worldwide, particularly for school-age children and adolescents. They pose significant public health problems for all countries and entail substantial health, social, and economic impacts. 

Simple and effective interventions exist to prevent most oral diseases. The school setting, among others, plays an important role. Specific focus will be on the integration of oral health promotion into Wash in Schools programming. Results from a multi country study in South East Asia will be presented and discussed.​

​Dr Caroline Hilari and Jeanne Long​, Save the Children

How do you ensure different sources of food and nutrition in schools?

Join us to learn about various school-based nutrition sensitive interventions, with examples​ from Latin America on school store regulations and decreasing junk food sales in schools.​

​Katherine Pizzacalla, Chief Advisor, ​Fit for School ARMM Programme, GIZ

​The webinar will discuss the strategy used by the Department of Education and GIZ to provide support to improve sanitation infrastructure in selected schools in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines. The concept was developed as an alternative strategy to improve toilets in schools in conflict-affected areas where external construction teams could not access. The strategy focuses on School Based Management and the role of the School Community, led by the School Head, to ensure the construction is completed.​

​Dr Stan Kutcher, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, Canada​

This webinar focuses on how mental health programmes and teacher training can be delivered and sustained in low resource countries.  

Dr Kutcher's presented recent findings of a review of relevant research, reports and resources on school mental health in low resource countries. The webinar touched on how mental health programmes and teacher training can be delivered in low resource settings. 

​The webinar discussion sought to cover a range of issues related to how school health programmes can manage mental health problems. Topics covered in this discussion included:

Dr Laura Appleby, Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London
Dr Imran Khan, Chief Global Technical Lead, Sightsavers

The School Heath Integrated Programming (SHIP) initiative is a global programme that tsupports governments to mainstream school health and nutrition interventions into national education sector plans. The initiative is focused on two cornerstones of school health and nutrition: deworming and vision screening. These two simple interventions can be used as a platform for other interventions.

As part of the programme the initiative worked with governments in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Senegal, to distribute treatments for intestinal worms and screen the eyes of 40,000 school children, giving glasses to those who need them. 

The initiative is collaboration between the World Bank,  Imperial College London's Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and Sightsavers with funding from the Global Partnership for Education.​

​​Global oral health promotion strategy: integrating oral health promotion into general health promotion through sugars reduction and targeting schoolchildren.​

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​This webinar will explore tools and approaches for preventing, measuring, monitoring and responding to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), based on evidence and country experiences. 

SRGBV affects millions of children and young people, cutting across cultures, economies, peoples and practices. It constitutes a major barrier to children’s ability to learn and develop, and is correlated with lower academic achievement.

Ending school-related gender-based violence is a priority for countries wishing to achieve ambitious global goals on inclusive and quality education for all, good health and well-being and gender equality.