Strengthening implementation of catch-up vaccination and multi-disease screening for new migrants

Abstract Dr Hargreaves will discuss the current guidance for EU/EEA countries on public health considerations for newly arrived migrants, with a specific focus on catch-up vaccination delivery across the life course in mobile populations. She will explore current initiatives and best practices to ensure child, adolescent and adult refugees and migrants are included in catch-up planning and delivery for missed vaccines and missed doses and to align them with the host country vaccine schedule.

In this presentation, Dr Orcutt, will outline the health system responses needed to respond effectively to the health needs of forcibly displaced populations -from initial health assessments to the longer term -and the role that research can play in ensuring evidence-informed policies and practice. She will present the main areas of the WHO's new global research agenda on migration and health and outline how translating evidence into implementation is essential to improve the health of migrants. Dr Hargreaves will discuss the current guidance for EU/EEA countries on public health considerations for newly arrived migrants, with a specific focus on catch-up vaccination delivery across the life course in mobile populations. She will explore current initiatives and best practices to ensure child, adolescent and adult refugees and migrants are included in catch-up planning and delivery for missed vaccines and missed doses and to align them with the host country vaccine schedule.
Abstract citation ID: ckac129.116 Community engagement to co-design and deliver public health interventions in newly arrived migrants Alison Crawshaw will talk about her participatory research that uses design thinking to develop community-based strategies to improve health outcomes in migrant populations. She will summarise the benefits of using community-based approaches and co-designing public health initiatives with affected migrant communities, bringing in lessons learned from a recent project with the Congolese community in London.
Abstract citation ID: ckac129.117 Health care provision to migrants: what did we learn from the Ukraine, Afghan, and Syrian crises?

Apostolos Veizis
A Veizis 1 1 Intersos, Lancet Migration European Hub, Athens, Greece Contact: a.veizis@intersos.gr Dr Veizis was involved in the immediate health care provision to Ukrainian people fleeing to neighbouring countries including Poland and Moldova, as well as health care provision to Syrian people residing in Greece, working for the nongovernmental organisation INTERSOS and previously MSF. He will discuss his experiences to date in terms of immediate and long-term provision to these groups and the role of both NGOs and mainstream health services in meeting the needs of forcibly displaced migrants to Europe.

2.P. Round table: Covid-19 pandemic: the rise or downfall of public health
This year, we are celebrating 30 years of the European Public Health Association. But celebrating this after over two years of COVID-19 and the Russian reinvasion of Ukraine, invites us all to reflect on the use, misuse and non-use of public health. Over the years, our approach to public health has evolved. At the start of the 20th century, public health emphasized the inequalities created by the environments in which people lived, including housing, sanitation, and nutrition. By the end of the century, this extended to the political and commercial determinants of health and the concept of planetary health, which would later be encapsulated by the 2016 Vienna Declaration on Public Health. Given this comprehensive approach, supported by a much greater body of knowledge produced by many disciplines, public health should have been in the driver's seat when the world was hit with COVID-19. But it was not. Its expertise was often absent from COVID-19 response teams. Policies were often driven by panic in the face of visions of overwhelmed hospitals. Restrictions on mixing were essential until more was known about this new virus but there were failures to appreciate the impact that these measures would have on those already disadvantaged, many in precarious employment in public-facing jobs and overcrowded accommodation. As a consequence, existing health inequalities 15th European Public Health Conference 2022 iii51