Child Migrants in the WHO European Region: Time for Urgent Action

This webinar is in support of the development of a new WHO/UNICEF regional strategy for Child and Adolescent Health in Europe and Central Asia, as part of our Public Health in Practice Special Issue.

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  • Location
    Online
  • Time
    1pm - 2pm
  • Date
    Tue 14 Oct 2025
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This webinar will highlight the increasing number of forcibly displaced children across the European Region and the moral and legal duty of countries to uphold the right to health of all children living within their borders, irrespective of immigration status. It will explore how populist radical right politics, discriminatory policies, health system challenges, care access barriers and data gaps contribute to the failure of many countries to deliver on these obligations. It will present evidence-based alternative approaches to health-harming immigration policies and practices.

This webinar supports the development of a new WHO/UNICEF regional strategy for Child and Adolescent Health in Europe and Central Asia, as part of our Public Health in Practice Special Issue.

Speakers

Amy Stevens, a white woman with brown hair and brown eyes smiling

Amy Stevens

Speaker

Dr Amy Stevens is a Public Health Consultant in Yorkshire, …

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Amy Stevens, a white woman with brown hair and brown eyes smiling
Amy Stevens

Speaker

Dr Amy Stevens is a Public Health Consultant in Yorkshire, UK with a degree in International Health and a Masters in Public Health (Global Health Stream). She has a special interest in child health having previously worked as a paediatric doctor in the UK, New Zealand and India. She works as the Public Health Lead at Bevan, a social enterprise providing health and wellbeing services to Inclusion Health populations, and has previously worked with Doctors of the World UK Policy and Advocacy Team, Save the Children Global Humanitarian team and the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England. She has recently been supporting WHO Europe develop their new Child and Adolescent Health Strategy.

Ingrid Wolfe, a white woman with short brown hair and glasses.

Professor Ingrid Wolfe OBE

Chair

Professor Ingrid Wolfe is Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Pop…

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Ingrid Wolfe, a white woman with short brown hair and glasses.
Professor Ingrid Wolfe OBE

Chair

Professor Ingrid Wolfe is Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Population Medicine) at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, a Consultant in Paediatric Population Medicine at Evelina London Children’s Health, and Professor of Paediatrics and Child Population Health at King’s College London. She leads a clinical-academic group (CHILDS) working to advance and apply knowledge for improving child health. Alongside this, Ingrid is Director of King’s Health Partners Women’s and Children’s Health, Director of NIHR Applied Research Collaborative (ARC) South London, and co-Chair of the British Association for Child and Adolescent Public Health.

Ingrid is qualified in paediatrics and public health, enabling her to be a children’s doctor with a very broad perspective. She has on-the-ground insight from clinical practice, and an understanding of the population from public health. These two aspects come together in her NHS and academic work focusing on improving child health through strengthening healthcare, health systems, and informing policy in the UK and Europe. She leads several research programmes designing and testing interventions to improve child health, publishing and speaking widely in academic, clinical, and policy settings. She was awarded an OBE for services to children’s health in 2016.