UNITAR and Empower School of Health celebrate 2026 graduates in Geneva
For UNITAR, this graduation is a concrete illustration of the Institute's mandate: to build the capacity of individuals, institutions and organisations, especially in the Global South, and to convene expertise from across the UN system, academia and the private sector to do it. Ebru Canan-Sokullu, Deputy Director of the Division for People and Social Development at UNITAR, conferred certificates alongside Paul Lalvani and Daniel Nazarov, Senior Programme Coordinator at UNITAR.
The Empower School of Health partnership is one of the flagship co-branded programmes managed by UNITAR's Division for People and Social Development. Since its launch, it has become a reference point for how the Institute delivers accessible, workforce-relevant, online postgraduate education at scale, reaching senior officials in more than 45 countries in a single cohort, with a deliberate concentration on Least Developing Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and countries in special situations, while maintaining the academic and administrative standards expected of a United Nations training institute.
The 45 countries represented in the cohort include more than 20 LDCs, several SIDS, and a significant number of countries in conflict, post-conflict or otherwise fragile situations, among them Haiti, South Sudan, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso, Myanmar and Iraq. Land Locked Developing Countries across the Sahel, the Great Lakes and Southern Africa are also strongly represented. These are precisely the contexts in which health supply chains are most fragile and in which the presence of well-trained senior officials makes the largest difference to whether medicines, vaccines and diagnostics actually reach patients.
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