What’s Going on In the Global Health Community? Conferences, World Health Days, & More!

August 01, 2019

Over the last few weeks, GHC has been compiling a shortlist (not exhaustive by any means!) of major global health days and conferences coming up in the latter half of 2019. We hope this list helps you better plan your upcoming events, activities, and communications. If you would like to add your conference or event to our online calendar of events, please email us.

*Please note that we will once again host a Special Events Calendar for United Nations General Assembly health-related side events. Again, send us your event details to help us populate this calendar!

1-7: World Breastfeeding Week

6-9: 3rd Annual African Forum for Research and Education in Health Symposium (Lagos, Nigeria)

7: GHC Advocacy Update Webinar

10: World Suicide Prevention Day
12: Global Vaccination Summit (Brussels, Belgium)
16-19: WHO Regional Committee for Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark)
21: World Alzheimer’s Day
23-27: United Nations General Assembly (New York, New York)
23: High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (New York, New York)
23: Climate Action Summit (New York, New York)
29: World Heart Day
30-4: WHO Regional Committee for the Americas: Seventy-First Session (Washington, DC)

2-6: IDWeek 2019 (Washington, DC)
9-10: Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment Conference (Lyon, France)
10: World Mental Health Day (focus on suicide prevention)
11: World Obesity Day
14-16: CORE Group 2019 Regional Global Health Practitioner Conference(Nairobi, Kenya)
15: Global Handwashing Day
27-29: World Health Summit (Berlin, Germany)
28-29: World Infectious and Rare Diseases Congress (Bangkok, Thailand)

2-6: APHA Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

9-10: Women Leaders in Global Health Conference (Kigali, Rwanda)

12-14: International Conference on Population and Development (Nairobi, Kenya)

13-19: World Antibiotic Awareness Week

14: World Diabetes Day

17: World Prematurity Day

20-24: ASTMH 68th Annual Meeting (National Harbor, Maryland)

1: World AIDS Day

3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities

6: Global Health Landscape Symposium (Washington, DC)

9-11: Second Global Meeting of International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

9-12: WHO Global Meeting to Accelerate Progress on SDG target 3.4 on NCDs and Mental Health(Muscat, Oman)

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