The World Health Organization has just outlined crucial research priorities for better refugee and migrant health. 

After a year-long consultative process with over 180 key stakeholders from all regions representing expertise from diverse backgrounds and migration and displacement contexts, five key research themes were identified as global priorities to be addressed over the next five years:

• Ways to scale up access to services and achieve inclusive universal health coverage, especially: evidence on effective health financing models and how health systems can better respond to the diverse needs of people on the move.
   
• Actions to make health emergency preparedness more responsive to the needs of migrants and those forcibly displaced, particularly: effective and sustainable health care models in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries and models of UHC in protracted displacement contexts.
   
• Better understanding of the determinants of health and ways to address them, particularly on: the impact of living and working conditions as well as restrictive immigration policies on the health of migrants, refugees, and other displaced people.
   
• More visibility for under-researched groups of migrants and forcibly displaced populations, for example: children, people in immigration detention, or people who are internally displaced.
   
• New ways to collaborate in research and translate research into policy and practice.

The Global research agenda includes a roadmap that sets out multisectoral and multilevel actions that should be undertaken at the global, regional and national levels. It also includes a toolkit for other actors to adapt and expand upon the agenda at regional, national and local levels.

For further information, please read the global research agenda on health, migration and displacement below or read the following press release.