Report on the High-level Meeting on Health and Migration: 17–18 March 2022, Istanbul

Abstract

With the current Strategy and Action Plan for Refugee and Migrant Health in the WHO European Region soon expiring, the 2022 High-level Meeting on Health and Migration, attended by representatives of the WHO Regional Offices for Europe, Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, governments, partner agencies and civil society, served as a platform to design the vision for refugee and migrant health in the coming years. The sessions revolved around the political framework and consolidated high-level commitments to action on health and migration. Some of the sustained and emerging issues were explored and key priorities for moving forward were identified. The focus on the five core pillars of transformative action led subsequently to more in-depth work on the technical details, sharing lessons and practices to make health a reality for all. The unanimous endorsement of the outcome statement, including the five pillars, emphasized once more the strength of international and interregional cooperation on health and migration in times of multiple and ongoing health and humanitarian crises.