Emergency Environmental Health Forum Call for Abstracts | Humanitarian WASH courses

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Dear Colleagues

Check out the link below to submit abstracts to the upcoming EEHF in May. Also, CKM is compiling a list of WASH courses and training events and below are the two that we have so far for humanitarian WASH. Please let us know if you have others to add to the list.

Emergency Environmental Health Forum (EEHF), 24-28 May 2021 Online conference, Call for Abstracts

Dates: Due to COVID-19, the EEHF 2021 will be postponed until May 2021 and held online. To make the conference more accessible and keep the presentations and panel discussions more manageable, the EEHF will be held between 24 - 28 May 2021.

Agenda: A logistics note will be sent out with further details on the agenda and how to access the conference in Spring 2021. We welcome any ideas on how to make the conference more creative and engaging online!

Theme: Responding to crises: changing climate and evolving pandemics

Abstract submission: Applications will be considered outside these but we encourage proposals on the following themes:

Environmental health response to climate change
Environmental health response and surveillance in disease outbreaks (including COVID19, cholera, Ebola)
Changing the behaviour of communities and implementers
Inclusive WASH (including women, girls, people with disabilities and older adults)
WASH and undernutrition

Additional information/submit abstract

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Humanitarian WASH Courses/Training Resources

IHE Delft - Online Course on Governance in Humanitarian Contexts, May 3 – September 3, 2021 - The course aims to critically analyse the humanitarian architecture, the different humanitarian contexts, and decision-making for WASH through a multi-level governance approach.

IHE-Delft - Online Course on Public and Environmental Health in Emergencies, September 6, 2021 - January 14, 2022 - This course aims to instruct participants on how to critically design WASH responses to humanitarian crises while focusing on protecting public health.

Dan Campbell
Knowledge Creation/WASH Specialist, ECODIT│www.ecodit.com
USAID Water Communications and Knowledge Management (CKM) Project
Implemented by a Consortium led by ECODIT
Email: dcam...@waterckm.com
Phone: 571-777-8485, ext. 107
Skype: dan.campbell49