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Elrha’s R2HC programme and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) will co-host the 3-day Research Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, from 7-9 May, 2025. This collaborative event, for invited attendees, will focus on "Bridging Global Health Research and Humanitarian Response in a Climate-Impacted World."
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We are pleased to invite you to an engaging online session at the UN OCHA Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) 2025. This unique forum brings together actors and experts from across the humanitarian sector to collaborate on the challenges and solutions that shape humanitarian response and impact lives globally.
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This webinar provides insight into new evidence relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic in several humanitarian crisis settings. Identifying key priorities emerging on humanitarian needs, this webinar will pull out common messages for humanitarian audiences. We will focus on the priorities, needs and perceptions of people affected by humanitarian crises and how new evidence on their needs, and new tools for collecting this evidence, can be used and applied during outbreak response.

As part of this year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) we are hosting a hybrid panel discussion to share and discuss findings from our latest initiative, the Global Prioritisation Exercise (GPE), which maps and analyses humanitarian research and innovation actors, as well as outputs and investments that have been undertaken in the last five years.

This online panel explores the challenges associated with ensuring meaningful participation of people affected by crises in identifying priority gaps in humanitarian research and innovation.

As part of the 2021 Humanitarian Leadership Conference and its focus on decolonising the humanitarian ecosystem, we co-organised and participated in a panel that will be discussing how community-led innovation can challenge inequity and contribute to the decolonisation of humanitarian aid.

In this 90-minute webinar, we bring together R2HC research teams who have conducted research on COVID-19 in Lebanon, Turkey, Uganda, and Jordan, along with humanitarian practitioners and experts to capture insights from the research studies and operational experiences.

Expert health economists from LSHTM explore how health economic methods and evaluations can improve our understanding of the economic dimensions of interventions delivered in humanitarian settings.

A team from WHO delivered a webinar focused on quality of care in humanitarian settings. They will introduce the recently released technical package on quality of care in fragile, conflict-affected, and vulnerable settings and propose ways in which quality of care may be incorporated in research proposals.

As part of the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) programme will host an online panel discussion exploring how health systems can effectively deliver public health responses to COVID-19 which meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced people (IDP).


Join us for a new In Focus series, to discuss the findings and recommendations of a new rapid review, published by Humanitarian Outcomes, In Focus: The role of the humanitarian sector in navigating ethical decisions in Afghanistan.

Join us for a virtual discussion on the findings and recommendations of this review published by Humanitarian Outcomes, Slipping Away? A review of humanitarian capabilities in cholera response. This review is supported by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub, and funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

As part of the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) programme will host an online panel discussion exploring how health systems can effectively deliver public health responses to COVID-19 which meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced people (IDP).

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- Humanitarian Innovation Forum 2025; photo by Elrha