Event
May 21, 2025
14:00 - 15:30
Geneva Health Forum at World Health Assembly 2025
Migration is often framed as a challenge—but it’s also a powerful driver of diversity, innovation, and resilience. This session calls on stakeholders to shift the narrative, recognize migrants as agents of their own health, and co-create inclusive solutions. In the context of the World Health Assembly, we’ll elevate lived experiences, foster dialogue, and seed new collaborations. Through participatory roundtables, we’ll tackle shared challenges and explore practical responses in mental health, research, and community leadership. Together, we can build momentum for dignity-based health systems that leave no one behind.
During this session JJ Keith, photographer, kindly shares his exhibition of portraits “Open Britain: Portrait of a Diverse Nation”. JJ Keith sets out the use of his camera to capture and celebrate the contributions migrants have made to the life in the UK within the healthcare system, and particularly the NHS, in this collaboration carried out with the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
To know more about JJ Keith’s work check out on LinKedIn jjkeithphotography and Instagram openbritain

Professor
4EU+ Alliance
Czech Republic

Director of the Health and Migration Department
World Health Organization
Switzerland

PhD Student.
Swiss TPH
Switzerland

Director
Geneva Center of Humanitarian Studies (UNIGE)
Switzerland

Psychiatrist
Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)
Switzerland

Fondatrice
ONG Le Goût de la Vie
Switzerland
Crédit photo : Flore Pratolini