Connecting for innovation and equity in global health
The Skoll World Forum shines a spotlight on some of the most promising solutions and impactful social innovations and connects leaders who are driving social progress around the world. The Forum will take place April 1–4 in Oxford, UK and online. Together, attendees will explore opportunities to unite and drive enduring change.
Led by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, #WHWWeek calls for increased investment in all cadres of the health workforce and advocates for prioritizing human resources for health on the global agenda. It is an opportunity to highlight the crucial role that sustained leadership and long-term investments in the health workforce play in achieving resilient health systems and advancing development goals.
Join ETR for the next 3 in 30 webinar where it will share three tips in thirty minutes on Building Youth-Adult Partnerships to Advance Adolescent Health.
Join Global Health Council on World Health Day for an insightful webinar on the burden of perinatal mental health globally. The webinar will highlight national efforts to optimize perinatal mental health care.
Human health sits at the center of the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification. The Forecasting Health Futures Global Summit 2025 will convene experts and influencers on April 8-10 from across these domains to advocate for a more unified approach to mitigating that triple threat, and to explore coordinated adaptation strategies that can save lives today and build health systems fit for the future.
Join Stanford Biodesign for a discussion that goes beyond the traditional healthcare model to involve public health, economics, community engagement, policy, and more. Sara Olsen, founder of SVT Group ― an advisory firm that supports clients to measure their social and environmental impact ― will discuss what impact assessment is, the emerging discipline of impact management and valuation, why it is specifically important in health care, and what some useful tools and resources are to help you bring your whole vision forward as you scale.
Partners In Health (PIH) invites you to a screening of the highly acclaimed documentary, Bending the Arc, which follows the work of extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work nearly 40 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all.
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced its third annual Global Health Symposium will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, on April 10th – 11th, 2025. Centered on the theme of Delivering on the Promise of Health Equity, the Symposium will bring together experts from across the globe and from within Harvard University to discuss some of the most pressing issues around global health.
Join Vital Strategies for a webinar launching its new report, Prioritizing Evidence Gaps: Air Pollution and Health Impacts of Climate Action. Current evidence suggests climate actions will result in larger health gains via air pollution reductions than via CO2 and temperature reductions. At the same time, more research is needed to precisely assess the effectiveness of clean air and climate actions being taken, considering how actions reduce specific health-damaging source emissions. Vital Strategies and Wellcome Trust conducted a rapid scoping activity to identify and prioritize gaps in the evidence base that may be limiting cities' and countries' abilities to demonstrate the health impacts of climate mitigation actions targeting combustion-source air pollution.
Rouella Mendonca, an entrepreneur, changemaker, and Director of Product for Artificial Intelligence Technologies at Audere, is leading the way in ensuring communities across the globe have access to quality healthcare while creating pathways for all women and girls to live healthier and fulfilling lives. Please join Patrick J. McGovern Foundation on Friday, April 11th at 1pm EST for a conversation between Rouella and McGovern's Storytelling and Advocacy Lead, Yolanda Botti-Lodovico.
Join Pacific ADA Center staff members as they explain your rights as a person with a disability in health care. Topics covered will include accessibility of hospitals and doctors' offices, medical equipment accessibility, transfer assistance, effective communication, and telehealth visit accessibility.
Join the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for an insightful webinar on making online communication more accessible and easy to understand. Designed for medical providers, this session will highlight common barriers people with disabilities face when accessing important health information.
Join the San Francisco Community Health Center for a spectacular evening of festivity, friendship, and FUNdraising. Their Show of Hope Gala will take place on Friday, April 18, 2025 at Hyatt Regency San Francisco.
Join PHI, CA4Health and partners to celebrate ENACT Day, which brings together community leaders and partners from across California to connect, learn from each other, and collectively educate decision-makers about opportunities to create healthy, safe, and equitable communities for all Californians.
Join UCSF IGHS on April 23 to hear from David McIver, PhD. Human-driven land use change (LUC) increases disease spillover and drives viral evolution. This research links LUC to the emergence and spread of Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) and Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV).
YIDP Digital Education & Wellness Symposium is a high level event with a carefully curated audience, under the theme: Navigating the Digital Landscape: Promoting Wellness in Education, Home & Workspace. Why Attend? -- Inspiration, Education, Conversation, and Networking.
Webinar attendees will learn best practices for effective mentoring in the context of academic and research centers and understand how they can become involved in the CUGH Mentorship Program. The webinar presenters will discuss desirable attributes of mentors and mentees, frameworks of successful mentoring relationships, and potential challenges and resolutions in mentoring relationships.
Join the North Carolina Global Health Alliance for the first ever Global Health Futures Symposium on Friday, April 25 from 8:30 am-12:00 pm ET. Be in community with your peers across the global health & foreign aid sectors as we explore the unknown future of global health, discuss our own role in shaping it, and hear from leaders on how global health experts can adapt their skills for new - but complementary - career paths.
The Bay Area World Malaria Day Forum hosted by the Malaria Elimination Initiative at the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences will be on Friday, April 25th from 9-11 a.m. PDT at UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus. This will be a hybrid event. If you are able to attend in-person, please join for breakfast beginning at 8 a.m. A reception will be held from 11 a.m. to noon directly following the Forum.
The Global Development Research Symposium showcases student creativity, achievement and research from diverse disciplines of study across Stanford University. The symposium will feature the work of scholars, including those who have received funding from the King Center over the last year.
School-based health centers and wellness centers are key to building health and education equity for California’s children and youth. The California School-Based Health Alliance’s (CSHA) statewide School Health Conference in Anaheim April 28-29 is an opportunity for health practitioners, educators, and advocates to connect and learn how to best support students with increased access to health care at school.
Join Stanford CIGH on April 30th for this Global Health Research Spotlight featuring Ami S. Bhatt, MD, PhD, discussing her collaborative, community-engaged research efforts to map the African gut microbiome.
Rise Up is thrilled to invite you to its Evening of Impact on April 30, 2025, from 6:00–8:00 PM at The Progress. At this unforgettable celebration, you’ll hear directly from visionary Rise Up Leaders who are driving transformative change in their communities—expanding education, improving health care, and creating economic opportunities for women, girls, and gender-nonconforming people worldwide.
Strengthen your team’s outbreak response and prevention capabilities with this interactive, three-week virtual workshop from PHI’s Population Health Innovation Lab. Equip your team with actionable strategies to integrate health equity, optimize data, and foster collaboration.