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Continuity in crisis: Innovations for cardiometabolic disease care in humanitarian settings
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22 April 2026 Apr 22, 2026

Join Elrha as they share findings from their latest report, highlighting innovations for cardiometabolic disease care in humanitarian settings, and exploring the challenges and barriers to implementing and scaling these innovations.

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Scaling what works: Delivering impact through partners
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24 March 2026 Mar 24, 2026

Our latest webinar, co-hosted with Spring Impact, is supporting humanitarian innovation leaders to better understand partner-led scale, and to navigate this transition in complex, fast-moving environments.

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Beyond the virus: Social and behavioural science lessons from mpox
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18 March 2026 Mar 18, 2026

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Strengthening evidence-based decision-making in humanitarian innovation
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10 February 2026 Feb 10, 2026

This webinar will introduce and walk participants through a practical, field-tested set of tools designed specifically for humanitarian innovators. Developed through a participatory process with innovation teams across multiple countries and contexts, the toolkit helps teams move beyond data collection towards making better decisions: collaboratively, adaptively, and with confidence.

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Designing decisions using Futures and Foresight
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05 February 2026 Feb 05, 2026

This webinar will introduce a grounded, practical futures-thinking approach designed for humanitarian innovation and research teams working under pressure exploring how futures thinking can support better decisions when certainty is no longer available and the system itself feels unstable or “unmoored”.

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Gender based violence (GBV) Innovation Webinar series: Using tech to reimagine GBV training and service delivery in the Arab Region
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26 November 2025 Nov 26, 2025

Join us for our 2025 Gender-based Violence (GBV) Innovation webinar series that will showcase two projects from our GBV Tech Innovation Challenge, and share lessons learnt from all four projects across the cohort.

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Bridging the gap: Advancing safe and comprehensive abortion care in humanitarian settings
Ágora Bogotá Convention Center, Bogotá, Colombia
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04 November 2025 Nov 04, 2025

Join experts exploring how to advance safe, comprehensive abortion care in humanitarian settings – addressing political, practical, and funding barriers with new evidence and policy recommendations.

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Research and innovation priorities for climate adapting humanitarian WASH
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26 August 2025 Aug 26, 2025

Join us, Oxfam and the ADAPT Initiative at World Water Week for our online session on August 26th 2025 from 14.00-15.00 BST / 15:00-16:00 CET, titled Research and innovation priorities for climate adapting humanitarian WASH. In this 60-minute webinar we will share key findings from a new report, which is a first-of-its-kind agenda highlighting 11 research and innovation priorities for adapting humanitarian WASH response to climate change. This is based on a global consultation with the humanitarian WASH sector to generate actionable research and innovation priorities for climate-resilient solutions.

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The 2025 Humanitarian Health Research Forum
Emara Ole-Sereni, Nairobi, Kenya
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07 May 2025 May 07, 2025

Elrha’s R2HC programme and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) will co-host the 3-day Research Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, from 7-9 May, 2025. This collaborative event, for invited attendees, will focus on "Bridging Global Health Research and Humanitarian Response in a Climate-Impacted World."

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Designing decisions using Futures and Foresight
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05 February 2026 Feb 05, 2026

This webinar will introduce a grounded, practical futures-thinking approach designed for humanitarian innovation and research teams working under pressure exploring how futures thinking can support better decisions when certainty is no longer available and the system itself feels unstable or “unmoored”.

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Bridging the gap: Advancing safe and comprehensive abortion care in humanitarian settings
Ágora Bogotá Convention Center, Bogotá, Colombia
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04 November 2025 Nov 04, 2025

Join experts exploring how to advance safe, comprehensive abortion care in humanitarian settings – addressing political, practical, and funding barriers with new evidence and policy recommendations.

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2019 Research Forum Hub
Royal Holloway, University of London
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10 September 2019 Sep 10, 2019

The Research Forum is a place where you can collaboratively explore some of the common challenges associated with undertaking public health research in humanitarian crisis and help identify potential solutions.

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In Focus: The role of the humanitarian sector in navigating ethical decisions in Afghanistan
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26 June 2023 Jun 26, 2023

Join us for a new In Focus series, to discuss the findings and recommendations of a new rapid review, published by Humanitarian Outcomes, In Focus: The role of the humanitarian sector in navigating ethical decisions in Afghanistan.

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Slipping away? A review of humanitarian capabilities in cholera response
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21 March 2023 Mar 21, 2023

Join us for a virtual discussion on the findings and recommendations of this review published by Humanitarian Outcomes, Slipping Away? A review of humanitarian capabilities in cholera response. This review is supported by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub, and funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

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Health systems responses to COVID-19: How can we meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced people?
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09 November 2020 Nov 09, 2020

As part of the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) programme will host an online panel discussion exploring how health systems can effectively deliver public health responses to COVID-19 which meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced people (IDP).

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Regional launches: Solutions for addressing humanitarian needs - insights from regional consultations on the role of research and innovation
Multiple locations
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05 November 2023 Nov 05, 2023

Join us and our partners for a series of regional events where we explore the role of humanitarian research and innovation (HRI) at multiple levels in developing culturally and contextually appropriate responses. We will share insights from consultations examining the perceptions of regional and national humanitarian actors, and shed light on priority topics and areas that need HRI attention. The events are open to all to register and attend, however if you are a humanitarian actor, donor, researcher, innovator or practitioner these events could provide specific regional insights that could inform what you fund, how best to prioritize and topical areas of research.

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From research to impact in the humanitarian sector: learning from R2HC case studies
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13 September 2023 Sep 13, 2023

Having been in operation for a decade, our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crisis (R2HC) programme has produced a collection of detailed case studies documenting the impacts of completed research studies on humanitarian policy and practice. In this 90-minute webinar we brought together experts from the humanitarian research, policy and practice sector to examine the lessons learned from the case studies and from their own experiences on the research-to-practice pathway.

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Webinar series: New approaches to addressing gender-based violence in humanitarian settings
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12 September 2023 Sep 12, 2023

Join us for a webinar series where we will be showcasing a range of Elrha-funded innovations in humanitarian gender-based violence programming. If you are a donor, innovator or practitioner, this series could inform you of what to fund, how best to innovate, and how to adopt new innovations.

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Launch of the report “WASH in Humanitarian Crises: Setting the research agenda up to 2030”
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05 July 2023 Jul 05, 2023

The “WASH in Humanitarian Crises: Setting the research agenda up to 2030” serves as a guide for researchers, humanitarian practitioners and funding agencies, providing a prioritised list of research questions that, when answered, will contribute to improved WASH policy and practice in humanitarian crises.

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Setting research priorities for the next decade of non-communicable diseases in humanitarian response
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04 July 2023 Jul 04, 2023

We hosted a webinar on Wednesday, 4 September 2024, to launch our report: “Research Priorities for Non-Communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Crises: Focus on Cardio-Metabolic Syndrome”. The event shared key findings from the report and heard from experts representing the research, practice and patient communities for NCDs in humanitarian settings.

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The state of the humanitarian and innovation ecosystem - first look at insights from a multi-level global consultation
Hybrid: Geneva, Switzerland or virtually (Zoom)
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27 April 2023 Apr 27, 2023

As part of this year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) we will be hosting a hybrid event to share emerging findings from our flagship initiative, the Global Prioritisation Exercise (GPE).

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Setting priorities for a 10-year research agenda for MHPSS humanitarian response
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17 January 2023 Jan 17, 2023

To address the need for more evidence of what works to support MHPSS programming in humanitarian settings, a priority research agenda taking us to 2030 has been developed by key MHPSS stakeholders. The result is a list of 20 most critical research questions to support MHPSS response. We shared these results with a community of practice at a webinar on 17 January 2023.

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How to Scale: Tactics to Enable the Adoption of Humanitarian Innovations
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23 November 2022 Nov 23, 2022

This online event will launch the third paper in our Scaling Series, How to Scale: Tactics to Enable the Adoption of Humanitarian Innovations, which provides a playbook of tactics for innovators who are aiming to scale through enabling other organisations to adopt their innovations. These tactics are also useful for innovators who are seeking to scale their innovation to other teams, offices and locations within their organisation that have not been involved in developing or testing the innovation. The panel discussion will be held on Wednesday 23 November 2022, 12:00pm – 1:00pm GMT.

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Exploring Innovation Opportunities in Solid Waste Disposal (12 October)
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12 October 2022 Oct 12, 2022

Join us at this year's Global WASH Cluster (GWC) Satellite Event as we launch our new Innovation Opportunities in Solid Waste Management report. The event will convene WASH coordination platform members and humanitarian partners to discuss the report’s findings and explore the role of sectoral and inter-sectoral coordination in addressing them.

  1. Humanitarian Innovation Forum 2025; photo by Elrha