EUPHAM module is highly
specialized training course on EU public health in the era of increased global
public health dangers and migration crisis. As patterns of migratory movement
alter, the impacts on physical and mental well-being become great, both among
the migrant community, but also the host/transit state. The effects which a
migration crisis may have on local public health policies in the host or
transit country are even greater in cases in which a specific state lacks
integrated public health policies which are not aligned with EU standards.
Countering such inconsistencies is a special challenge for the states of the
Western Balkans where local health policies are not aligned with specific EU
standards and strategies in the field of public health and health protection of
migrants.
The aim of EUPHAM module
is to analyze the interplay between EU public health policies and global
migration. The module is addressed to students – bachelor, master and PhD
candidates of political science, public policy, migration studies and medicine,
but also interested stakeholders, namely public health officials, civil society
workers and policy makers who are entering the profession in public health
protection, work with vulnerable groups (notably migrants) or are interested in
acquiring more knowledge about the topic.
With this project we aim
to bring professional skills and theoretical knowledge in the area of Public
health in connection to the migration processes that are very current, close to
policies and organisational principles close to those in EU.
Knowledge acquired in
this training course will create possibilities for lifelong learning, improve
education-research –innovation triangle, create international openness, allow
students and overall academic and professional mobility, better data
collection, stimulate development of the multidimensional transparency tools
and improve access to funding. With this projects we aim to contribute to the
overall idea of lifelong learning and modernisation of a current programs.