Making the connection: refugee health, health practitioners and competency building
PREP IP (Persons with Refugee Experience Education Project – Interprofessional) aims to build a transnational and interprofessional network to strengthen the capacity of health professionals to address the health and well-being of refugees in an inclusive, equitable, and comprehensive way globally. Over the next three years project partners (hyperlink) are collaborating to create an interprofessional framework for action on online education of health professionals working with refugees, a flexible and open online course and open educational resources for rehabilitation and health professionals working with refugees. The project will also document the process of building partnership for inclusion.
On 24th May 2022 from 9.00 - 17.00 (CET) we presented the first results of our cooperation and looked at various examples of refugee health. The PREP IP Forum at Hildesheim was a hybrid event that took place at HAWK Hildesheim (Lecture Hall 001 at Goschentor 1, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany) and could also be followed online.
Responsible for the project at HAWK: Dr. Sandra Schiller, Faculty of Social Work and Health, Hildesheim, Germany
Programme
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| 9.00-13.00 (CET) (Livestreamed | Opening Sandra Schiller, Faculty of Social Work and Health, Hildesheim, Germany |
| Welcome Corinna Ehlers, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work and Health, HAWK Hildesheim Video |
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Introducing the PREP IP network Djenana Jalovcic, Department of Health and Functioning, HVL Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway Video |
| Learning from health care experts with personal refugee experience Mohammad Ali Farhat, MSc Rehabilitation Science, Afghanistan Video |
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| Creating partnerships for inclusion: Experiences and good practices Rolf Vårdal, Physiotherapist, Centre for Migration Health, Bergen, Norway Video |
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| Photovoice as a research and intervention methodology for learning from refugee communities Salvador Simó, Co – Director Chair of Mental Health, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya Video |
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| How can we integrate refugee health into higher education programmes: Are microcredentials an opportunity? Emer McGowan, Assistant Professor in Interprofessional Learning in the Faculty of Health Sciences in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Video |
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| Introducing an interprofessional framework for online education of rehabilitation workers Michel Landry, Department of Health and Functioning, HVL Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway Video |
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| Health in Migration Kass Kasadi, Managing Director at Baobab – Zusammen sein e.V., Hannover, Germany Video |
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| Heartbeat of hope: The work of the International Doctors‘ Association (IDA) with refugees Esra Alagöz, Physiotherapist at Independent Doctors’ Association (IDA), Gaziantep, Turkey Video |
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| Ukrainian refugee support in Germany from a health care perspective Sandra Schiller, Faculty of Social Work and Health, Hildesheim, Germany Video |
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| Lunch Break | |
| 14.30 – 16.30 (CET) (Parallel Sessions, not livestreamed) | Workshop 1: Interprofessional collaboration in working with refugees in healthcare – teaching competences in higher education Facilitated by Esra Alagöz, IDA Gaziantep, Djenana Jalovcic, HVL Bergen, Merethe Hustoft, HVL Bergen, Rolf Vårdal, CMH Bergen, Egil Kaberuka-Nielsen, CMH Bergen |
| Workshop 2: Meeting the health needs of refugees in European countries – strategies for inclusion Facilitated by Sandra Schiller, HAWK Hildesheim, Salvador Simó, UVic-UCC Vic; Franziska Grünberg-Lemli, HAWK Hildesheim, Kim Roos, ZHAW Winterthur |
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| Workshop 3: Refugee health: Online interprofessional team-based learning Facilitated by Emer McGowan, Trinity College Dublin, Sarah Quinn, Trinity College Dublin, Michel Landry, HVL Bergen |
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| 16.30 – 17.00 (CET) | Summary of the workshop results and closing (Livestreamed) Sandra Schiller, Faculty of Social Work and Health, Hildesheim, Germany |
Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership
The Project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. PREP IP is led by the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) Norway in partnership with Bergen Kommune Centre for Migration Health Norway, HAN University of Applied Sciences (HAN) the Netherlands, HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HAWK) Germany, Independent Doctors Association (IDA) Turkey, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Ireland, Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic) Spain.