In line with the Action Plan on the Integration of Third-Country Nationals and within the EC Directorate-General for Health & Food Safety (DG SANTE)’s Health Programme, the MIG-H Training project was launched in December 2017.

Coordinated by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ, with technical lead by the Migration Health Division (MHD) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office in Brussels, and in collaboration with the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), this tendered initiative is to be implemented in Slovenia and 9 other European countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Norway, Serbia and Spain).

This Regional programme focused on the development of advanced specific training modules on communicable diseases and mental health, for health professionals, law enforcement officers and trainers has the overall objective of assisting frontline staff to develop key competences, which can support them in providing more appropriate health care to migrants and refugees.

The purpose of the programme is to develop, pilot and evaluate the respective training package for trainers and for trainees. The training modules developed will complement available training modules previously created by IOM MHD RO Brussels within the Equi-Health action as well as those from the Migrant and ethnic minority health training package (MEM-TP), for which IOM was project partner.