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The World Health Organization each year is sentencing one week in April for promoting the regular population level vaccination in the fight against the spread of the most common infectious diseases.  The Migration Health Department of our University – within the frame of its collaboration with WHO – is joining to this event with organizing/ hosting an international, scientific event.

On Wednesday, 24 April, between 10:00 – 14:00 hours, in the Dean’s Lecture Saale, we are hosting a webinar form international roundtable meeting. Beside the scientists of our University, the representative of WHO European Office, leading scientists of the Lisbon Nova University, Anglia ARU Manchester University and Belgrade University will provide online presentations. The event is open for personal as well as online participation. No in advance registration would be required. See below the detailed program and the technical instructions.

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World Immunization Week 2024 - 24 to 30 April 

World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed to protect people from vaccine-preventable diseases.

The goal of World Immunization Week is for more children, adults – and their communities – to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases, allowing them to live happier, healthier lives. 

This year World Immunization Week will celebrate 50 years of the Essential Programme on Immunization (EPI). 

More information on the 50th anniversary of EPI here.
Resources will be uploaded as available here. 

Kell-e és milyen szektorokba a külföldi munkavállaló? Felkészült-e Magyarország a vendégmunkások áradatára? Szempontok, melyek túlmutatnak a gazdasági érdekeken és szükségen. Vendégem Szilárd István professzor, a Migrációs Egészségügyi Tanszék vezetője

A BESZÉLGETÉS MEGTEKINTÉSÉHEZ KATTINTSON A KÉPRE:

A 2022. február 24-én megkezdődött orosz-ukrán háború hatására újabb menekülthullám érkezik hazánkba. Ennek nem csupán nemzetbiztonsági, hanem közegészségügyi vonatkozásai is vannak, ahogy azt már a 2015-ös szíriai háborúnál is tapasztalhattuk. A jelentős számban országunkba érkező menekült megfelelő egészégügyi fogadása és ellátása elengedhetetlen. A téma kapcsán a Pécsi Tudományegyetem Általános Orvostudományi Kar Migrációs-egészségügy Tanszékének tanszékvezetőjével, Prof. Dr. Szilárd Istvánnal beszélgettem.

Dr. Erika Marek, senior lecturer at the Department of Operational Medicine, University of Pecs, as a part of her ’János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ and ‘ÚNKP-19-4 Bolyai + New National Excellence Program’ research activities, has conducted interview study among Hungarian healthcare workers together with dr. Reka Kalmar, previous undergraduate medical student (since 2019 MD). The purpose of their study was to explore how health providers’ implicit racial bias may impact Roma patients’ health according to healthcare workers’ views.

Please, find below a short summary of their study:

 This research was supported by János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The support period of this stipend is 2017/09/01-2020/08/31. „Supported by the ÚNKP-19-4 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology” and University of Pecs, Medical School, PTE ÁOK-KA [No.2017-

Dear Participants of our previous, traditional WHO Immunization Week round-tables,

Dear Colleagues, Dear Website Visitors 

The current COVID-19 Pandemic underlines the high relevance of WHO traditional program, sentencing one week of each year for the importance of population level vaccination programs.  (I would recommend you to study the last paragraph, as a very relevant hypothesis of professor Ternák’s introductory article!)  That is why even among the current challenging conditions we would like to keep the traditions and aim to provide you a virtual way of information exchange. Pls. feel welcome to study the selected scientific reviews, focusing now on the current epidemiological situation.

We – as always – would also like to turn your attention on the most vulnerable people, and you are welcome to join to the ‘Leaving no one behind in the Covid-19 Pandemic: an urgent global call to action for inclusion of migrants & refugees in the Covid-19 response’ initiative.’ (See the paper below!)

If you would like to join with a relevant paper to the list below, you are most welcome!

We do believe that in April 2021 we will meet you in person again during the WHO Immunization Week round-table at University of Pécs.

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Istvan Szilard and the WHO Collaborating Centre’s team at University of Pécs Medical School

• Subjective: Questions to be answered after Covid-19
• COVID-19: Immense necessity and challenges in meeting the needs of minorities, especially asylum seekers and undocumented migrants
• Graphs showing the day-to-day development of the Covid-19 pandemic
• Delivery of immunization services for refugees and migrants (2019)
• A review of evidence on equitable delivery, access and utilization of immunization services for migrants and refugees in the WHO European Region (2017)
• Leaving no one behind in the Covid-19 Pandemic: an urgent global call to action for inclusion of migrants & refugees in the Covid-19 response
• Guidance on routine immunization services during COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO European Region (2020)
• UK to begin clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine this week
• DRAFT landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccine:
  • 23 April 2020 Publication
  • Current Publication
• Europe’s migrant containment policies threaten the response to covid-19
• Covid-19: undocumented migrants are probably at greatest risk
• COVID-19 Conversations
• Sharpening the global focus on ethnicity and race in the time of COVID-19
• Before the pandemic ends: Making sure this never happens again

People on the move, whether they are economic migrants or forcibly displaced persons such asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced persons (hereafter called migrants & refugees), should be explicitly included in the responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This global public health emergency brings into focus, and may exacerbate, the barriers to healthcare these populations face. Many migrant & refugee populations live in conditions where physical distancing and recommended hygiene measures are particularly challenging. The Covid-19 pandemic reveals the extent of marginalisation migrant & refugee populations face. From an enlightened self-interest perspective, the Covid-19 disease outbreak control measures will only be successful if all populations are included in the response. It is counter- productive to exclude migrant & refugee populations from the preparedness and response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Statements from UNCHR (https://bit.ly/39YRB7V), IRC (https://bit.ly/34pOaWE) and a joint statement from OHCHR, IOM, UNHCR and WHO (https://bit.ly/2K7usG9) also call for the rights and health of migrants and refugees to be protected in the Covid-19 response.

Scope and purpose of the WEB based conference entitled:

Dr. Erika Marek, senior lecturer represented our department and gave oral presentation at the 2nd International Congress of Health Workforce Education and Research organized by the European University Cyprus in Nicosia, Cyprus between 9th - 10th May 2019.

The title of the presentation: Medical students’ self-assessed level of intercultural competence: first results of a Hungarian survey.