Connecting for innovation and equity in global health
Join Alliance member WHO for their Technical Webinar Series on Climate Change and Health. These webinars will integrate training, experience sharing, interactive activities and group discussion with the aim of building capacity for implementation at country level. Webinars will take place from April 24th to October 23, and recordings of past webinars will be made available on their webpage.
Join Alliance member JSI for a webinar focused on immunization and malaria prevention, control, and treatment as the world prepares for a new horizon of malaria prevention. The malaria vaccine has shown to be a potentially powerful tool in the prevention toolkit, but there are important considerations for successful rollout and sustained implementation. Strong partnership between EPI and NMCPs, communities, and other public and private partners is essential.
Join London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for an event that will discuss career opportunities in planetary health with speakers from a range of sectors including NHS, academia, government agencies and international organizations. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear about and discuss their career paths, a typical working day, the skills required and how their roles contribute to planetary health.
Join Alliance member Street Business School for their Wildfire Virtual Workshops. These LIVE virtual training sessions led by Street Business School's best Global Trainers are held every Wednesday for eight weeks, with additional workshops added to the schedule regularly.
Alliance member UCSF is offering a course focused on human-centered design. Human-centered design is a discipline incorporating the human needs perspective to solve problems in public health and medicine. Learners will learn and follow a design process, applying methods focused on building empathy, translating needs into solution requirements, creative ideation, prototype development and testing, and planning for implementation. Deadline for registering for this Fall term course is May 1st, 2024.
Join the Mastercard Foundation and the WILD Network for their 2024 Women’s Global Leadership Forum. The event will equip attendees with the tools and inspiration necessary to fulfill their leadership potential and be a changemaker in their arena. Attendees will gain transformative insights to be more effective in their work and to foster a culture of inclusive leadership within their organization and across the industry.
Join Alliance member ETR for a webinar to learn about three actionable tips in 30 minutes on Organizational Visioning that Centers Transgender/Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Communities. In this conversation, ETR will be joined by Jordan Blaza Olsen (she/her), Capacity Building Manager at Transgender Strategy Center (TSC), and Crispin Torres (he/him), Capacity Coach at TSC, who will discuss organizational visioning that is made by and for TGNC leaders.
Join Alliance member UCSF for an overview of PEPFAR’s HIV sciences priorities, with updates from Ingrid Katz, Director for Behavioral Sciences and Mike Reid, Chief Science Officer for President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Emergency Relief (PEPFAR) / Global Health Security and Delivery (GHSD).
Join Alliance member Stanford for their Climate Change and Human Mobility Conference. This two-day conference will convene scholars, researchers, and practitioners whose work focuses on the convergence of climate change, environmental disasters, and human mobility. Conference sessions will cover climate-driven migration, public health impacts of climate change, climate displacement law and policy, climate change impacts on indigenous and other vulnerable communities, among other topics. Conference events will also include a film screening and networking opportunities.
Join Alliance member UCSF for a two-day course that will introduce and apply key concepts of Implementation Science in a small group setting. This course will provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge and skills, as well as meet and collaborate with other Implementation Science researchers. Learners will complete this course with concrete examples applying relevant Implementation Science theory to their own research area.
Join us for the second convening of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s 2024 Discussion Series on AI and Global Health. The convening will offer insights from thought leaders, innovators, and changemakers who are navigating the potential of AI to power a dynamic shift to prioritize service delivery over data collection.
Join Alliance member Stanford for RAISE Health Symposium 2024 which will explore AI's potential to transform medicine and spotlight critical challenges to ensuring that AI is developed safely, responsibly, and for the benefit of society. This symposium will host an essential discussion about the role of artificial intelligence in our health and will provide opportunities to hear from world-class experts and gain insights about AI’s next chapter and strategies for navigating the responsible advancement of AI in biomedicine.
Registration has closed. Read key takeaways. Join the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Stanford University's Center for Innovation in Global Health on Wednesday, May 15 from 9-10am PT for this co-hosted global health career panel. Attendees will hear global health leaders from our multi-sector Alliance and will gain insights on their diverse career journeys. The […]
STAT's 2024 Breakthrough Summit West will provide opportunities to engage in conversation about what the next two decades will bring in medicine. The summit will allow attendees to join in on high-level, interactive sessions that will peer into the mists, looking at GLP-1 drugs for psychiatry, a new age of individualized gene editing, and the potential of artificial intelligence to reduce the failure rate of inventing new medicines.
Join Alliance member UC Davis for a a virtual emergency consultation aiming to inform policy and inspire coordinated action on combating Avian Influenza. Through a One Health approach we will develop a pathway for cross-sector collaboration in infectious disease preparedness and response efforts.
Join Alliance member Stanford for a conference focused on brainstorming solutions of three major sources of pollution while emphasizing their effects on human health: coal-fired industry, wildfires, and plastic. With current models of industrialization and consumption degrading the environment and polluting the world, this conference will put forward a solutions-oriented interdisciplinary research agenda to foster a healthier and more sustainable future.
The McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health has proudly offered short courses for students and professionals for nine years. With 15 in-person and virtual courses to choose from, the summer institute provides sources of professional development for those working in universities, clinical settings, research institutes, non-profit organizations and industry. They also provide supplemental material for current students looking to learn more.
The Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s Annual Meeting will bring together members to discuss pressing global health issues, including: innovations and investments for women's health equity, overcoming barriers in multi-sector global health partnerships, and putting health at the heart of global climate change action. Speakers include leaders from Wellcome Trust, Accenture Development Partnerships, Africa Health Business, Americares, Cross-Border Impact Ventures, Gilead Sciences, Google, Merck for Mothers, PATH, Roche Diagnostics, and more.
Join Alliance member Africa Health Business (AHB) for their 2nd Africa Women's Health Symposium in Accra, Ghana with a focus on A New Dawn of Partnerships for Women’s Health. This event highlights opportunities to advocate to elevate women’s health in health system decision making, act through partnership to eliminate barriers to healthcare access for women, and advance existing innovations and initiatives to better women’s health on the continent.
Join the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. The AI for Good Global Summit is the leading action-oriented United Nations platform promoting AI to advance health, climate, gender, inclusive prosperity, sustainable infrastructure, and other global development priorities.
Join Alliance member PHI's Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) for a 2-day Community Action to Fight Asthma (CAFA) Virtual Summit. Day 1 will feature opening remarks by California Senate Majority Leader, Lena A. Gonzalez, followed by a panel on MediCal’s asthma policies and a presentation on the latest scientific research on indoor air quality. Day 2 will feature a panel on asthma and climate change policy, a training on advocacy, and opportunities to meet with California policymakers to educate them about asthma.
During the Brazil G20 3rd Health Working Group Meeting, PATH and partners are hosting a co-branded event to galvanize discussions around localization of digital innovation, and how AI as an emerging technology can support a shift in the center of gravity for product development in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Learn more and register.