The 76th World Health Assembly will take place in May 2023. The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO). Attended by delegations from all WHO member States, it focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board.

The Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly is being held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 21–30 May 2023.

The theme of this year’s Health Assembly is: WHO at 75: Saving lives, driving health for all.

Pillar 1: One billion more people benefiting from universal health coverage

Pillar 2: One billion more people better protected from health ...

The 96th EGPRN meeting will be held at the University of Split, School of Medicine in Split, Croatia between 11 - 14 May 2023. The theme of this meeting is "Person-centred care and its outcomes in primary care".

The 17th World Congress on Public Health coincides with a critical juncture for our world. The COVID19 pandemic has indelibly altered our planet and our lives, exacerbating existing inequalities and alerting us to the threats of an unsustainable mode of production. Conflicts worldwide, from Ukraine to Afghanistan, from Syria to Ethiopia — to cite a few — have further destabilised the world, alongside the devastating consequences felt by all those directly affected. And together with the pandemic and the war, we have failed to mitigate the effects of climate change — the pandemic itself a potential consequence — with environmental disasters growing in frequency ...

IFIC Scotland and partners are delighted to announce the webinars in our Integrated Care Matters Series 7. This series will consider innovations in holistic and personalised approaches to integrated care and support.

Each webinar will be accompanied by a topic resource with links to further information. All who register will receive links to the recordings and topic resources.

Join us @IFICInfo #IFICScotland for #IntegratedCareMatters7

In April 2020, one month after many countries across the world went into lockdown and health and care systems in many countries were dealing with the consequences of the pandemic, the International Foundation for Integrated Care launched a webinar series over five months. We convened integrated care practitioners from across the world to share their immediate experience of coping with this challenge and the effect it was having on care and outcomes.

The International Foundation for Integrated Care are revisiting some of the webinars from the original series in the Autumn 2022. We will be bringing together international panels to ...

The Spanish Ministry of Health is organising the International Conference on Primary and Community Care, to be held in Madrid on 28 and 29 November 2022, with the theme “The contribution of primary care to health systems”.

The conference will bring together stakeholders from around the world, including WHO, EU, and diverse national health systems and institutions, to highlight the role and value of primary care, by reflecting on:

• The value of primary care from the angle of international organisations.
• Current international challenges and experiences of primary care delivery.
• The Spanish Primary and Community Care Action Plan 2022-2023.
• Valuing human ...

IFIC Scotland and partners are delighted to announce the first webinar in our Integrated Care Matters Series 7. This series will consider innovations in holistic and personalised approaches to integrated care and support.

Each webinar will be accompanied by a topic resource with links to further information. All who register will receive links to the recordings and topic resources.

This panel discussion opens our ten-part lunchtime seminar series, “Primary Health Care (PHC): The heart of every health system” that will run once a month throughout the 2022/23 academic year. 

The seminar series provides an overview of the key functions and features of PHC; its potential in achieving universal health coverage and its role in global health. Seminars are led by speakers working in a range of settings.

In this opening zoom-based session our panel of cross-country experts will consider what is stopping PHC from being the heart of every health system??? 

Drawing on their own research and experiences ...

Theme: Patient and public engagement in health services research Speaker: Dr Maria Santana, Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Calgary, Canada, and Advisor to GPCC. Host: Professor Joakim Öhlén, Centre Director GPCC.

Date and time: Thursday 29 September at 15.00-16.00 CET.

Place: Digitally via zoom or IRL at Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg. Attendance is cost free.

Dr Santana will provide an introduction to public and patient engagement in health research and examples on how this engagement has impacted health health care systems. In Canada, Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research was established to emphasize the importance for public and ...