Événements Canadian Conference on Global Health 2024 / Conférence canadienne sur la santé mondiale
The Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH) is an annual conference that brings together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, trainees and other professionals to discuss pressing global health issues. The conference provides a platform for sharing knowledge, best practices, and innovations in global health research, policy, and practice.
The 2024 CCGH is a hybrid conference to be held online and in-person from October 25 to 27, 2024 at the Simon Fraser University, downtown Vancouver campus, BC, Canada.
2024 Conference Theme : Poly-crisis and global health: How can we improve human health and equity while protecting the planet?
The quarter of a century from 1990 to 2015 saw remarkable and unprecedented gains in global health. Progress was, however, uneven, with the poorest countries not making sufficient progress. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, sparked more optimism for accelerated and equitable progress across human development indicators, including the global health and planetary ones, in the global north and south indiscriminately.
In recent years, the world has experienced a series of economic, social, geopolitical, and environmental shocks that have impacted our development, well-being, and collective future. In Canada, we have seen inequities being exacerbated by concomitant crises affecting our health, education, housing, and ecological systems. The current global context is particularly challenging: the COVID-19 pandemic added an additional source of complexity; increasing state-sponsored violence over the past three years, such as in Artsakh, Ethiopia, Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, has also raised concern among humanitarian health communities due to its multi-layered impact on civilian populations as well as the growing impunity of the state perpetrators of this violence. It is estimated that a combination of these shocks will result in 2.1 billion people living in fragile or extremely fragile countries by 2030.
This combination of events, the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme climatic events, degradation of food and land systems, global instability precipitated by war and conflict, high energy prices, and inflation, have stalled, and even reversed progress. This has been termed as “poly-crisis”, an interconnected web of simultaneous adversities manifesting interdependently in a globalized world. Through complex and interrelated pathways, these critical events impact our health and well-being, and our planet.
For the Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH) 2024, we are inviting researchers, practitioners, policymakers, advocates, students, and others within the global health community, as well as from other fields and those with lived experiences, to exchange learnings and ideas from research and practice on how this multifaceted challenge could be addressed to improve human and planetary health outcomes from a global public health perspective. CCGH has a strong history and track record of welcoming colleagues from outside of Canada.
