Global Health in the Shifting World Economy

The Canadian Conference on Global Health remains the only annual conference in Canada that focuses primarily on global health and health in development, and the only Canadian peer review forum for knowledge building and program development related to global health and development. It is the primary space for Canadians working in global health to connect annually with each other and our partners in developing countries. 

The theme “Global Health in a Shifting World Economy” will specifically be examining the:

• The growing economic crisis in Europe and the impact on social welfare programs;
• Private/public partnerships;
• Economic growth with growing inequities in health;
• The role of state capitalism and the infusion of development aid;
• Existing and evolving global inequities in health and their expected and unexpected impacts on the world’s marginalized and vulnerable populations, including indigenous groups.

Plenary sessions and topic-focused symposia will be followed by workshops, special sessions, and oral and poster sessions to help facilitate knowledge dissemination in areas of global shifts in the economy and global health equity in local, national, and global contexts.