UNESCO Chair on Global Health and Education to continue work for four more years

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The UNESCO Chair on Global Health and Education, which the University of Huddersfield co-hosts, has received a further four-year mandate to continue its work to strengthen health promotion, prevention and health education.

It was founded in 2018 by Professor Didier Jourdan at the University of Clermont Auvergne in France, who is an expert in the field of school health promotion. The University of Huddersfield and Dr Nicola Gray, who is renowned for her work on young people’s health, joined in 2022.

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Dr Gray, Reader in Medicines and Health at the University of Huddersfield and Trustee of the  Association for Young People’s Health, commented: “In the 80^th anniversary year of the founding of UNESCO in London, it is fantastic to receive confirmation that the work we do in Huddersfield is of value to the UK National Commission for UNESCO, and UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.”