Global health challenges are becoming increasingly complex and interconnected. Climate change, health inequalities, humanitarian crises, demographic transitions, and emerging health threats require responses that go beyond the capacities of any single institution, sector, or discipline.
Addressing these challenges calls for new forms of cooperation that bring together a diversity of actors, knowledge, and perspectives. Governments, civil society organisations, communities, researchers, healthcare professionals, development partners, and private-sector actors all have a role to play in shaping more effective, equitable, and sustainable health responses. Strengthening dialogue and collaboration across sectors, disciplines, and levels of action is essential to translate knowledge into practice and support collective action for health.
The conference will explore emerging approaches to cooperation in global health and the ways partnerships can foster innovation, strengthen health systems, and contribute to improved health outcomes.
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The workshops will provide space for sharing research findings, field experiences, project implementation, policy initiatives, and innovative ideas. They will aim to foster exchange between actors working in different sectors and contexts, and to identify practical pathways for strengthening cooperation in global health.
Contributions are welcome from researchers, practitioners, community organisations, civil society actors, public institutions, development partners, and private-sector stakeholders. Submissions based on research, programme implementation, partnership experiences, policy processes, field practice, and innovative proposals are encouraged.
Forty years after the Ottawa Charter, health inequalities remain strongly linked to social, economic, commercial, and environmental determinants of health. Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and other environmental challenges are profoundly affecting health and wellbeing, often exacerbating existing inequities and disproportionately impacting the most vulnerable populations.
Addressing these challenges requires moving beyond healthcare services alone. Health promotion offers important opportunities to strengthen community capacities, foster participation, build healthier environments, and support collective action on the determinants of health.
This conference will explore how health promotion and community engagement can contribute to healthier, more equitable, and more sustainable societies. It will examine the ways communities, civil society organisations, public institutions, researchers, and practitioners can work together to address environmental challenges and improve health outcomes.
Discussions may include, but are not limited to:
The conference aims to bring together scientific knowledge, community experiences, operational practice, and field initiatives to foster dialogue, mutual learning, and collective action.
Contributions are welcome from researchers, practitioners, community organisations, civil society actors, public institutions, and development partners. We encourage submissions based on research, programmes, field experiences, community initiatives, advocacy efforts, and other forms of practice-based knowledge.
Armed conflicts and humanitarian crises have major consequences for health systems and access to care. In many contexts, civilian populations, medical facilities, and healthcare professionals face violence, displacement, supply disruptions, and difficulties accessing essential services.
These situations directly challenge the capacity of local, national, and international actors to protect populations, maintain health services, and respond effectively in unstable environments. At the same time, they highlight the importance of strengthening cooperation with local actors and communities, supporting health workers, and developing innovative approaches to ensure continuity of care in crisis settings.
The conference will examine the challenges of access to healthcare in conflict contexts and the role of humanitarian, scientific, institutional, and community actors in responding to these crises.
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The workshops will give significant space to research findings, operational experiences, lessons learned, and civil society initiatives. They will aim to strengthen dialogue and cooperation between local actors, humanitarian organisations, researchers, and decision-makers in order to better connect scientific expertise, humanitarian action, and international advocacy.
Contributions are welcome from researchers, practitioners, humanitarian organisations, community groups, civil society actors, public institutions, and development partners. Submissions based on operational experience, programme implementation, field practice, and practice-based evidence are encouraged alongside academic research.
