Connecting for innovation and equity in global health
EAGxBerkeley 2024 will take place September 7-8, 2024 at Lighthaven in Berkeley, CA. The conference will focus on a diverse range of cause areas, local community building, and knowledge sharing. It will offer networking, workshops, presentations, and small group gatherings for around 500 attendees dedicated to addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges.
Join Alliance member GAIA for a reception in Menlo Park to honor GAIA Medical Advisory Board Member Dr. Dean Winslow with the GAIA Global Citizen Award for his exemplary contributions in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Starting Delaware’s first multidisciplinary clinic for HIV patients in 1985, leading the US COVID-19 Testing and Diagnostic Working Group, and serving as a Professor and Vice Chair of Medicine at Stanford University since 1998 are just a few highlights in Dr. Winslow’s extraordinary career.
Effective global cooperation is increasingly critical to our survival but difficult to achieve in an atmosphere of mistrust, using outdated structures that no longer reflect today’s political and economic realities. The Summit of the Future is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future. In September, world leaders will convene at the United Nations to adopt the Pact for the Future, which will include a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations as annexes.
The 2024 Concordia Annual Summit is taking place on September 23-24, 2024 at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. Its theme for its 14th Annual Summit is Navigating a New Era, providing the preeminent forum for the private sector and equipping the Concordia community with the network and platform to understand the unique challenges and opportunities presented by today’s global environment – along with the tools and partnerships to build for tomorrow.
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) community will reconvene September 23-24, 2024 in New York City for the 2024 Annual Meeting. Timed to coincide with the U.N. General Assembly, CGI brings together business, government, and civil society leaders to drive progress on climate resilience, inclusive economic growth and recovery, health equity, the full participation of women and girls, and humanitarian response efforts to crises around the globe.
Join the International Confederation of Midwives for the ICM Regional Conference Africa and Eastern Mediterranean from September 24-26 in Kigali, Rwanda. The Africa and Eastern Mediterranean conference will bring together in Rwanda midwives and stakeholders from the region, with the goal of creating a supportive and adaptable community in today’s ever-changing world.
Join ReSurge International and SkinCeuticals for a special screening of their short documentary about the Pioneering Women in Reconstructive Surgery program on Tuesday September 24, 2024 at 5:00 PM in New York City. This special screening of the award-winning documentary, 'A Place at the Operating Table,' features Dr. Thandi Munaiwe. Meet Dr. Munaiwe and the newest cohort of Pioneering Women in Reconstructive Surgery (PWRS) at this special event.
Join the UC Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (UC TRAC) for the 3rd Annual Bay Area Tuberculosis Science (BATS) Symposium, co-sponsored by Alliance members UCSF Center for Tuberculosis and UC Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases. BATS brings together TB investigators at UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford University and the SF Department of Public Health to highlight established and early-stage investigators in the UC TRAC community with the intention to build community and foster collaboration.
Join the Global Health Council, along with Panorama Global, Population Council, and the Global Climate & Heath Alliance for a UNGA79 side event, 'Missing Link for Sustainable Futures: Gender-Responsive Climate Policies'. This event will provide thought-provoking dialogue among policymakers, funders, researchers, and civil society stakeholders on solutions to the climate crisis’ impact on gender equality and health equity goals, and presents an opportunity for participants to: engage with experts who are uncovering and collecting the latest evidence, explore messaging for moving climate policies toward gender and health equity, and recommend actions toward COP29 and beyond.
Join ReSurge International for their 2024 Transformations Gala: Closing the Gap. This gala is a night of hope celebrating their mission to build, scale, and sustain reconstructive surgical capacity to provide life-changing care to those with the greatest need. Proceeds will benefit the life-changing work they are doing across the globe to close the gap to reconstructive surgical care once and for all. ReSurge’s annual gala is attended by up to 400 guests, including world-renowned reconstructive surgeons, venture capitalists, as well as Silicon Valley philanthropists.
Join CHEST 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts from October 6th-9th. This year's keynote speaker is Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, Co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health, Director of the Program in Global Public Policy at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and World Health Organization Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health. She will speak on the effects of climate change on human health and health systems. CHEST 2024 brings together key experts in the topics that affect your patient care, including: artificial intelligence, biologics for severe asthma, the vaping epidemic, therapeutics for advanced COPD, and sleep disorders.