EU Peace-Building Health Diplomacy

forthcoming

EU Peace-building Health Diplomacy Chair will explore how healthcare professionals can actively contribute to peacebuilding through ethical and evidence-based interventions. By combining health and diplomacy, the Chair will prepare students and practitioners to tackle global challenges like conflict, war, climate change, disasters, migration, and other related public health crises. Ultimately, the goal is to enable humanitarian organizations, non-governmental organizations, and government entities to use health initiatives as tools to both improve population health and promote peace simultaneously. It will also explore how the innate desire to mitigate global health risks can propel international collaboration. By uniting health and diplomacy, the Chair supports the EU’s broader mission to foster peace, improve public health, and promote excellence in education. It addresses urgent issues such as health diplomacy, humanitarian initiatives, polycrises, and peacemaking, which are central to the EU’s policy goals.