Event

Changing the Story: Collaboration & Solutions for Migrant Health

May 21, 2025

14:00 - 15:30

Geneva Health Forum at World Health Assembly 2025

Presentation

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

Speakers

Khaled Ismail


Professor
4EU+ Alliance
Czech Republic

Santino Severoni


Director of the Health and Migration Department
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Anna Duchenko


PhD Student.
Swiss TPH
Switzerland

Karl Blanchet


Director
Geneva Center of Humanitarian Studies (UNIGE)
Switzerland

Javier Sanchis Zozaya


Psychiatrist
Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)
Switzerland

Jessica Fragniere


Fondatrice
ONG Le Goût de la Vie
Switzerland

Crédit photo : Flore Pratolini

Organizers

Event

Changing the Story: Collaboration & Solutions for Migrant Health