ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This initiative is produced by the Global Programme
on Health and Migration under the strategic lead
and supervision of Santino Severoni (Director, Global
Programme on Health and Migration, Office of the Deputy
Director-General, WHO headquarters), the ApartTogether
Consortium led by Ghent University (coordinated by Ilse
Derluyn and An Verelst) and the University of Copenhagen
(coordinated by Morten Skovdal) and the Migration and
Health programme of the WHO Regional Office for Europe,
under the leadership of Gundo Weiler (Director, Country
Support and Emergencies Division) and Robb Butler
(Executive Director, Office of the Regional Director).
(Antonino Chiarenza), Radboud University Medical Centre,
the Netherlands (Maria van den Muijsenbergh), and
Independent Researcher, the Netherlands (Kenneth E.
Miller).
Rifat Hossain (Global Programme on Health and Migration,
WHO headquarters) was responsible for the coordination
and execution of the initiative, with the valuable assistance
of Marie Wolf (Consultant, Global Programme on Health
and Migration, WHO headquarters) and support of Jozef
Bartovic and Elisabeth Waagensen (Migration and Health
programme, WHO Regional Office for Europe).
WHO coordination of administrative procedures and the
publication of the report provided by Simona Melki and
Susanne Nakalembe (Global Programme on Health and
Migration, WHO headquarters).
The survey was initially piloted in the WHO European Region
and further developed and expanded globally by the Global
Programme on Health and Migration and disseminated
with the support of all WHO regional offices.
The ApartTogether Consortium includes Ghent University,
Belgium (Anastasia Botsari, Saskia De Jonghe, Stéphanie
De Maesschalck, Ilse Derluyn, Marina Rota, Eva SpiritusBeerden, An Verelst, Robin Vandevoordt and Sara Willems),
University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Signe Hviid Hansen,
Nina Langer Primdahl, Rasmus Luca Lyager Brønholt,
Morten Skovdal and Linnea Waade Biermann), Maynooth
University, Ireland (Rebecca Murphy), University of South
Florida, United States of America (Beatriz Padilla), Uppsala
University, Sweden (Natalie Durbeej, Fatumo Osman
and Anna Sarkadi), Sussex University, United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Charles Watters),
Lisbon University, Portugal (Adriano de Almeida, Catia
Branquinho, Ana Cerqueira, Maria Emilia, Sandra Estevão,
Susana Gaspar, Tania Gaspar, Margarida Gaspar de Matos,
Fabio Guedes and Gina Tomé), University of Toulouse,
France (Julia de Freitas Girardi, Yagmur Gökduman, Rachid
Oulahal, Frédéric Rodruiguez, Filipe Soto Galindo and
Gésine Sturm), University of Sevilla, Spain (Rocio Garrido,
Virginia Paloma), National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens, Greece (Elisabeth Loannidi, Katerina Vasilikou),
Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale of Reggio Emilia, Italy
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Ghent University and the University of Copenhagen
contributed to the development of the report, with input
from the Consortium members and technical review by
Rifat Hossain, Santino Severoni, Soorej Puthoopparambil
(Uppsala University, Sweden), Daniel Lopez Acuna, ,
Kanokporn Kaojaroen, Richard Alderslade, Palmira
Immordino and Simona Melki.
In addition, many WHO staff provided invaluable support:
Idabat Dhillon, Marta Feletto, John Grove, Catherine
Kane, Devora Kestel, Rokho Kim, Bente Mikkelsen, Leanne
Margaret Riley, Inka Weissbecker and Teresa Zakaria (WHO
headquarters), Ernest Dabire and Lokombe Elongo (WHO
Regional Office for Africa), James Fitzgerald, Camila Polinori
and Ciro Ugarte (WHO Regional Office for the Americas/Pan
American Health Organization), Ali Ardalan, Awad Mataria,
Tonia Rifaey and Slim Slama (WHO Regional Office for the
Eastern Mediterranean), Lin Aung (WHO Regional Office for
South-East Asia) and Kira Fortune (WHO Regional Office for
the Western Pacific Region),
The International Organization for Migration and United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Ann Burton
and Pieter Ventevogel) contributed to the review of
the final document. Note that the survey methods
and the conclusions and recommendations do not
necessarily reflect the views, official policy or position of
the International Organization for Migration or of United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Others who were instrumental in promoting the survey in
their areas were Khadichamo Boymatova (WHO Country
Office Tajikistan), Abdullah Al Mahmud and Mohammad
Tareq (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), Lisa Grace
Bersales (University of Manila, Philippines), Amer Shehadeh
(Al Istiqlal University, West Bank and Gaza Strip), Leena
Merdad (King Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia), Helen Oyiera (Kenya) and Rafael Cespedes (Chile).