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
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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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Previous events and recordings
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This online event will launch the third paper in our Scaling Series, How to Scale: Tactics to Enable the Adoption of Humanitarian Innovations, which provides a playbook of tactics for innovators who are aiming to scale through enabling other organisations to adopt their innovations. These tactics are also useful for innovators who are seeking to scale their innovation to other teams, offices and locations within their organisation that have not been involved in developing or testing the innovation. The panel discussion will be held on Wednesday 23 November 2022, 12:00pm – 1:00pm GMT.
Join us at this year's Global WASH Cluster (GWC) Satellite Event as we launch our new Innovation Opportunities in Solid Waste Management report. The event will convene WASH coordination platform members and humanitarian partners to discuss the report’s findings and explore the role of sectoral and inter-sectoral coordination in addressing them.
Humanitarian crises pose a major threat to health and dignity worldwide. The implementation of evidence-informed interventions plays a vital role in maximising the impact of humanitarian response. Recognising that a significant body of humanitarian health research has been published in the last 10 years, this online event will launch our flagship publication An Evidence Review of Research on Health Interventions in Humanitarian Crises: 2021 Update (HHER2), in partnership with Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. Key findings will be presented on Wednesday 22 June, 2:00pm – 3:00pm BST.
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.
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).
Join us on Tuesday 15 April 2025, 14.00-15.30 BST for a panel event sharing insights on community engagement and the restitution of findings - returning data, evidence and knowledge arising from research back to communities in a meaningful way. This 90-minute webinar will draw from the humanitarian and research communities to foster a learning discussion, informed by practical experiences and case examples, to inform good practice guidance to improve principles and guidance on restitution of findings.
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.
In February 2025, we hosted the Humanitarian Innovation Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. This collaborative and co-created event brought together a diverse group of innovators, decision-makers and funders to tackle some of the most pressing humanitarian challenges facing the world today.
Join us for a webinar mini-series showcasing two Elrha-funded innovations in humanitarian gender-based violence programming, and drawing out lessons learnt in the humanitarian innovation process. If you are a donor, innovator or practitioner, this series could inform you of what to fund, how best to innovate, and how to adopt new innovations.
Join us and the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for this webinar focused on humanitarian health research in the context of climate change. This hour-long webinar is part of a series in the lead-up to two in-person events in May 2025: Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Forum and the NIH Global Forum on Humanitarian Health Research (GFH2R), both in Nairobi, Kenya. These events will bring together researchers and humanitarian organisations working in crisis-affected regions, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Participants are also invited to join an optional 30-minute session including small, interactive breakout discussions. We aim to engage a broad audience, including academic institutions, research funders, and humanitarian organisations, to enhance understanding of key issues and perspectives in this field.
Join us for a one hour webinar bringing together experts to take stock of MHM in humanitarian response. Experts from the sector will reflect on their field experiences of delivering MHM in different humanitarian settings, examine what we have learned since this research was funded about cross-sectoral best practice, and the outstanding challenges and knowledge gaps for mainstreaming MHM in emergencies.
Our Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) together with The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH), Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge, and UNICEF are hosting a session on the possibilities and challenges surrounding AI use in the humanitarian action. Part of Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW), this event offers participants who might be interested in – or skeptical of – AI the opportunity to dig into the pitfalls and potential of the technology, and identify key actions to enable the safe and ethical uptake of AI for the humanitarian sector.
As part of this year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) we will be hosting an online webinar showcasing a series of innovations in Protection Sector programming in gender-based violence and inclusion of people with disability and older people. Our aim is to showcase the innovations we’ve supported – to bring these new ideas and emerging best practices to a wide audience of humanitarians working in protection, inclusion and GBV programming, as well as technical advisors, and donors.
Join us to launch a major new report on the shape and role of research and innovation within the humanitarian system. The global launch will feature a panel discussion and will provide an overview of the current state of the humanitarian research and innovation ecosystem, presenting the principal findings and recommendations gathered from two years of global research and consultation. The event is open to all to attend, however if you are a humanitarian actor, donor, researcher, innovator or practitioner this event could provide specific insights that could inform what you fund, how best to prioritise HRI agenda, and your topical areas of research.
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- Humanitarian Innovation Forum 2025; photo by Elrha