The 2025 Humanitarian Health Research Forum

About the Forum

The 2025 Humanitarian Health Research Forum co-hosted by Elrha and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) will bring together researchers from academic institutions, humanitarian organisations and other key humanitarian health stakeholders. 

Building on our collective experience, we will discuss pressing humanitarian challenges and explore how these can be addressed through equitable research partnerships. The Research Forum will serve as a platform for dialogue, collaboration, and knowledge exchange. 

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Key themes

1. Galvanising action on evidence gaps for climate-induced health impacts

2. Shifting power to lower-and-middle-income countries(LMICs)

3. Promoting research quality, ethics, and impact

4. Fostering collaboration and partnerships

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Audience

The audience will be around 150 invited participants, including humanitarian health research, policy and practice experts, researchers including those from academic institutions, and particularly those from low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) affected by crisis, humanitarian organisations and other key stakeholders.

This diverse mix of stakeholders, with experience of working in countries and regions affected by crises, working with - directly or indirectly - people and communities affected will bring their unique perspective, expertise and thinking around the role of research in humanitarian response.

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Webinars and pre-event activities

Leading up to the Forum, we plan to hold a series of webinars aligned to the four key objectives of the Forum. The first of these was held in November, in partnership with Fogarty, and fell under our objective to “galvanise action on evidence gaps for climate-induced health impacts”. The webinar built on the findings from our 2024 report identifying linkages between the climate crisis and humanitarian health, and sparked conversations we hope to continue at the event and beyond.

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Image credit: Action Against Hunger

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