Events

Our events bring together knowledgeable panellists and diverse subject experts from across the humanitarian space. Explore our upcoming events and access recordings of our past talks, workshops, and panel discussions.

Upcoming events

Explore our upcoming event schedule and join the conversations.

The 2025 Humanitarian Health Research Forum
Emara Ole-Sereni, Nairobi, Kenya
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07 May 2025 May 07, 2025

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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Closing the gaps: Building inclusive humanitarian response for people with disabilities and older age with innovation
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20 March 2025 Mar 20, 2025

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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Previous events and recordings

Catch up on our past events and gain useful insight and knowledge from our library of recordings.

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How can community needs inform outbreak response in humanitarian settings? (9 June)
Webinar
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09 June 2022 Jun 09, 2022

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.

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Follow the money: a deep dive into investments for humanitarian research and innovation
Hybrid: Geneva, Switzerland or virtually (Zoom)
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11 May 2022 May 11, 2022

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.

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Setting research and innovation priorities: how can we ensure meaningful participation of people affected by crises?
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29 April 2021 Apr 29, 2021

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.

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How community-led innovation can challenge inequity and contribute to the decolonisation of humanitarian aid
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28 April 2021 Apr 28, 2021

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.

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The reality of COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: What have we learned, and where do we go from here?
Webinar
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28 April 2021 Apr 28, 2021

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.

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Health economics in humanitarian research
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03 March 2021 Mar 03, 2021

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.

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Quality of care in humanitarian settings
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25 February 2021 Feb 25, 2021

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.

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Health systems responses to COVID-19: how can we meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced people?
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09 November 2020 Nov 09, 2020

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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Pragmatism and innovation: collecting data in fragile situations during COVID-19
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27 October 2020 Oct 27, 2020

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In Focus: The role of the humanitarian sector in navigating ethical decisions in Afghanistan
Webinar
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26 June 2023 Jun 26, 2023

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.

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Slipping away? A review of humanitarian capabilities in cholera response
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21 March 2023 Mar 21, 2023

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).

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Health systems responses to COVID-19: how can we meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced people?
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09 November 2020 Nov 09, 2020

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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R2HC Seventh Call Webinar - Morning
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11 June 2019 Jun 11, 2019

You can sign up to one of our webinars to learn more about this funding Call

Image credits

  1. Humanitarian Innovation Forum 2025; photo by Elrha