COVID-19 impacts on unemployment and well-being: the imperative for working together on health and labour policies

Between 2-3pm CET on Friday 16 July 2021

Join to discuss the impacts of unemployment on health and the importance of developing symbiotic strategies in health and labour sectors for tackling both unemployment and health in the face of pandemics and other crises.

Opening:

• Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General, UHC/Healthier Populations Division
• Dr Orielle Solar, Dr Gerry Eijkemans, PAHO/AMRO
• Dr Alison Schafer, Department of Mental Health and Substance Use
• Dr Nicole Valentine, Department of Social Determinants of Health

Panel moderated by Dr Gerry Eijkemans:

• ILO projections and patterns of unemployment in the Latin America Regions and main labour policies of redress
• Dr Gerhard Reinecke, Senior Specialist on Employment Policy, ILO Santiago, Chile
• Unemployment and mental health - why both important for recovery – Mr David Finch, Assistant Director, Healthy Lives, The Health Foundation
• Labour markets and pathways for recovery that mitigate unemployment – Dr Marcela Meléndez, UNDP Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean