Connecting for innovation and equity in global health
Join Alliance member UCSF at a conference designed for healthcare providers interested in starting careers in global health or integrating global health into their existing practices. The two-day conference will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to successfully navigate domestic topics, such as project funding and job negotiation, and international topics, such as partnership building and program development.
Join Alliance member UCSF for their Global Child Health Lecture Series. Over a span of two-weeks, a series of conversations about the state of child health around the world will be held to discuss topics such as Digital Diagnostics in Global Health, Climate Change, Health, and Equity, Pediatric Sepsis in Resource-Limited Settings, and much more.
Join Alliance member Global Health Council to learn about the upcoming 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78), its purpose, processes, procedures, and pathways for Civil Society (CS) engagement. This webinar will also provide opportunities to discuss the calendar of events for UNGA 8, the High-Level Meetings (HLMs) and other post-HLM activities.
Join Alliance member Stanford University for conversations with thought leaders from academia, business, policy, and journalism as they present their Big Ideas that will shape the future of medicine. In this inaugural Big Ideas Conference, four theme areas were selected by a committee of Stanford faculty. Each theme will feature four speakers giving a 15 to 30 minute talk on a transformational Big Idea followed by a conversation with the speaker.
Join Alliance member Stanford Wood Institute for the Environment for an event as a part of their Environment & Energy Panel Series. In 2023, we have seen extreme heat records around the world. Stanford scientists and other climate experts will discuss what we know about extreme heat and the range of possible future scenarios we should reasonably prepare for. They will discuss the health implications of extreme heat for people, especially vulnerable populations, and highlight additional significant impacts on the planet and nature.
For the first time, the UN General Assembly will convene three High-Level Meetings on health during its 78th session (UNGA 78) in New York in September 2023. Currently, the world is off track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) health targets by 2030. UNGA78 is an historic opportunity for world leaders to place health back on the high-level political agenda as they recommit to ending tuberculosis (TB), delivering universal health coverage (UHC) and strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, according to the World Health Organization.
Join Springboard for the second session of their two part webinar exploring how social and behavior change (SBC) programs can use digital technology to gain insight to inform program design and implementation. This session will explore how AI is changing the digital landscape, as well as the opportunities and challenges with AI adoption in SBC. This includes how it powers big data, the ethical considerations and future potential. Speakers include Alliance member Viamo’s Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Lukas Borkowski, and the CEO and Founder of Quilt.AI, Anurag Banerjee.
Join Alliance member UCSF for the 5th annual UCSF/ZSFG Refugee Health Symposium: Refugee Migration Through the Generations. Hosted by The Refugee and Asylum Seeker Initiative (RAHI) at UCSF, this virtual symposium brings together refugee health experts across disciplines in an annual opportunity to discuss current issues and ongoing research in refugee health. This year the symposium will showcase the health impacts of forced migration across generations, with speakers from different waves of refugee migration over the past several decades, from the 1970s to present.
Join Alliance member Stanford’s King Center on Global Development for a presentation with Professor of Oceans Giulio De Leo. His talk will cover the progress made in reducing and eliminating schistosomiasis, a disease caused by water-borne parasitic worms. More than 250 million people are currently infected, with 90% of cases in sub-Saharan Africa. His presentation will discuss targeting the environmental reservoir of the disease: the water snail population.
Join Alliance member ETR for their 15th annual YTH Live Global conference. This premier event centers on the convergence of youth, technology, and health, and invites young people and adults to the same, equal space to share innovative ideas, new technologies, and transformational research. The purpose of the conference is to bring the most cutting-edge innovation from young people directly to audiences that can learn from and support their work.
Join the Alliance, PSI, PATH, UNICEF, Google and other members at the second annual Africa Health Tech Summit - Digital Health: Empowering People, Transforming Communities held in Kigali, Rwanda this upcoming October. Organized in partnership with the Africa CDC and SmartAfrica, the conference will explore how digital health can transform healthcare delivery across Africa.
The NetHope Global Summit 2023 provides an in-person experience hosted in Munich, Germany—with high-level interactive plenaries, in-depth solutions-focused sessions, opportunities for networking, exhibition, and spontaneous connection followed by a subsequent virtual gathering featuring Member-led sessions accessible across time zones, all fostering strong global cross-collaboration and innovation and embodying the 2023 theme of Collaborate. Innovate. Impact.
