Discover upcoming events, activities and learning opportunities in global health, international development, and gender equality.
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On February 9, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Children Believe is holding a virtual panel to explore the ongoing issue of irregular migration in Central America and Mexico.
Join Salanga and ADRA Canada for a free webinar during International Development Week on What is CoLMEAL?
Each year Cooperation Canada recognizes outstanding individuals and projects in the sector with three awards, the Karen Takacs Award for women’s leadership, the organizational and individual Innovation and Impact Awards in honour of Lewis Perinbam.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada, in partnership with Aga Khan Museum, offers this free professional development workshop for educators who are interested in teaching about global citizenship and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of art.
Get your popcorn ready: In celebration of International Development Week 2022, Partners In Health Canada is screening the all-time favourite global health and social justice film, Bending the Arc!
Join BCCIC member organization Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan (CW4WAfghan) to learn about the realities facing adolescent girls in the context of the current humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
Join us for a panel where we discuss SDG 4, Quality Education, from a Youth Perspective.
Join Justice Education Society’s International Development Week Panel on “An Intersectional Approach to Combating Gender-based Violence in Central America’s Northern Triangle” with guest speakers and experts from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
CAGH is collaborating with the Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNNTD) for International Development Week 2022 to host a webinar addressing the impact of NTD on the health of women and adolescent girls.
On Friday, February 11th, the Cuso Youth Engagement Advisory will host a speakers’ panel, “Youth, Speak Up! Perspectives on Global Development Issues.” Discussion topics will include Indigenous perspectives within International Development Studies, diversity, and inclusion.
Join us on February 11th, International Day of Women and Girls in Science, for an inspiring virtual panel with prominent Canadian women in science, technology, trades, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week (SRH Week) is a yearly campaign designed to raise awareness on sexual and reproductive health and promote resources to improve community health in Canada.
Join us for a conversation that will bring together Cuso International volunteers Rai Friedman and Carmencita Alcantara, who will speak about their personal volunteer journeys and their work in Ethiopia with the Agency for Civil Society Organizations.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada, in partnership with Aga Khan Museum, offers this free professional development workshop for educators who are interested in teaching about global citizenship and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of art.
On February 17, 2022 at 12:00 pm PST Days for Girls International will hold a special online event to celebrate this momentous milestone, hear the stories behind the numbers, and share our vision for 2022.
Social justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous coexistence within and among nations. We uphold the principles of social justice when we promote gender equality, or the rights of indigenous peoples and migrants. We advance social justice when we remove barriers that people face because of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or […]
The universal concept of the World NGO Day is to Celebrate, Commemorate and Collaborate - the various NGOs around the world, and the people behind them that contribute to society all year around. World NGO Day is to inspire people to become more actively involved within NGO sector and encourage a greater symbiosis between NGOs […]
A panel discussion with the leaders and experts of maternal health advocacy!
This conversation will be an open discussion about the impact of the pandemic on women's economic security!
Join us this month as we celebrate successes and learn from challenges presented by African, Black and Caribbean (ABC) presenters.
Together|Ensemble is Canada’s national conference devoted to tracking progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Creating a North American dialogue on urban sustainable development and the role of women in achieving the urban SDG.
As we mark this year’s International Women’s Day, WAGE invites you to join us, as we recognize and celebrate Women Inspiring Women.
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.
Doctors Without Borders and The Nocturnists present a virtual storytelling hour with aid workers across the Americas.
This webinar will bring together advocates and experts who have experience in building male engagement programs to discuss ways of incorporating men and boys in programming to end FGM/C.
The Feminist Economic Transformation Project (FET), is a participatory discussion series bringing together leaders and activists to vision key elements of feminist economic alternatives and futures across topics and regions.
The School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Bruyère Research Institute, WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity, and the International and Global Health Office (IGHO) are collaborating to host this monthly global health seminar.
Join us for a 90 minute solutions-oriented panel where participants will unpack the inherent inequalities and patterns of injustice that almost always fall along the lines of race, class, ability and gender and propose a way forward for a more just, intersectional and inclusive global climate response.
This side event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women focuses on women leaders at the forefront of action on climate-resilient food systems globally, with responses from Canadian women in agriculture.
Addressing the interconnections between gender equality, the environment and sustainable development is crucial for SRHR and elevating the voices of women is central.
As climate-exacerbated natural disasters continue to increase in frequency and intensity around the world, the effects of climate change are more clear than ever - and women and girls are most susceptible to their impact.
This two-part series on public engagement brought to you by the Inter-Council Network examines current practices in public engagement and explores alternative practices for a more decolonial, anti-racist and feminist approaches in public engagement.
This two-part series on public engagement brought to you by the Inter-Council Network examines current practices in public engagement and explores alternative practices for a more decolonial, anti-racist and feminist approaches in public engagement.
The Summit, part of the Together for Learning campaign, will offer a unique opportunity to learn from the educational experiences of displaced youth and to engage with them as problem solvers and decision makers.
In recognition of World Tuberculosis Day, Plan International Canada invites you to participate in an upcoming virtual French-language session on March 30 at 9:30 a.m. EDT. Discuss women’s health, the importance of patient and survivor perspectives and gender equality as we work together to end tuberculosis in communities across Canada and around the world.
Join us for an insightful discussion on how youth in Canada can contribute to ensuring quality education for refugees as well as forcibly displaced children and youth around the world.
This year World Health Worker Week is April 4 - 8, 2022, and the theme is Build the Health Workforce Back Better.
Join us with your morning coffee on April 5 at 9AM EST for a virtual roundtable focused on vaccine equity.
Join IntraHealth International and a panel of experts to explore how we can better prepare for future pandemics and increase our global health security by investing in and supporting health workers around the world.
This conversation for Our Planet, Our Health brings us into a fuller, sensory immersion of the reciprocal relationship between care for our planet and ourselves.
It is celebrated annually and each year draws attention to a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world.
Despite being the majority in the profession, women in the health sector are paid 23% less than their male counterparts and millions of women are working unpaid or grossly underpaid in core health systems roles. Against this backdrop, Women in Global Health, in collaboration with the Frontline Health Worker Coalition, will hold a high-level event to launch WGH’s latest policy report, Subsidizing global health: Women’s unpaid work in health systems.
This event—the first of a series of quarterly CHW dialogues—will bring together CHWs from across sub-Saharan Africa in a knowledge-sharing conversation on what universal health coverage (UHC) looks like to them, how new policies have impacted their day-to-day work, and the impact of COVID on their ability to deliver essential health services.
During the webinar, we will explore the reforms needed to ensure that global health systems strengthen and cater to the fragile health structures of developing nations.
Join us in conversation with an inspirational woman leader in Global Health
Don’t let COVID-19 turn back progress on the health of women, children and adolescents.
Registration is now open for Plan Canada's Youth Summit!
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
Ahead of World Malaria Day, join us for this webinar to learn, take action, and mark the launch of our #FightForWhatCounts campaign!
World Malaria Day is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control.
Join the CVPD and UNICEF Canada for a webinar on the Road to Recovery for Routine Immunization: Lessons from COVID-19
Join us for CanWaCH Academy!
Join us for an enriching in-person evening of learning and networking designed for leaders and emerging professionals from across the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health (CanWaCH) membership.
Join us for our Virtual Forum and take part in three days of virtual presentations, panels and discussions focused on supporting your work of restoring Indigenous midwifery and birth.
Are you a CanWaCH member or sector partner? Join us for an enriching in-person evening of learning and networking designed for leaders and emerging professionals in Vancouver!
Speakers will delve further into the challenges, interventions and opportunities for school-age and adolescent well-being.
Speakers will delve further into the challenges, interventions and opportunities for school-age and adolescent well-being.
The 24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion (IUHPE 2022) will be held from May 15 to 19, 2022, in Montréal (Québec, Canada), and online, across the world.
The Guttmacher Institute will hold a 60-minute virtual briefing on Wednesday, 17 May, 2022 , at 10:00 a.m. ET to highlight key findings of the study, related policy recommendations and the use of the new evidence for advocacy purposes.
Spur Change, in partnership with l’Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale (AQOCI), is inviting small and medium organizations (SMOs), educators and youth from coast-to-coast-to-coast to its Annual National Conference “Peace: Beyond the absence of war” which will take place from May 17 to 19, 2022 at the Bonaventure Hotel, in downtown Montreal.
Did COVID-19 impact contraceptive use? Don't miss an excellent introduction to longitudinal analysis as PMA and IPUMS use PMA data to examine whether the COVID-19 pandemic impacted contraceptive use.
Chat & Connect with an inspiring global health leader
Join the Equal Futures Network, a CanWaCH initiative, for an interactive incubator session exploring meaningful youth engagement in the lead up to our first-ever gender equality summit, Equal Futures 2022, from June 7-8, 2022 in Ottawa.
OBJECTIVES: 1. To present the latest research on COVID-19 vaccination coverage across Ontario. 2. To discuss the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period, with a focus on how to support families navigating vaccination decisions. 3. To support those working with pregnant and expectant families in making informed COVID-19 vaccination-related decisions throughout […]
Pandemic Periods and Girls Health Ed are partnering to bring you a thought-provoking and action-orientated discussion in observance of Menstrual Health Day on May 27.
We are excited for you to join us at this premier gathering of global thought leaders, innovators and social entrepreneurs as we use evidence and experience to debate and advance solutions that drive social impact!
Join Results Canada for a civil society roundtable with Winnie Biyanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS.
In-person networking opportunity to discuss findings from the Foreign Policy By Canadians research, analysing findings from an Alberta lens
The summit will provide an in person forum for the gender equality movement in Canada to come together, in all its diversity, to build connections, strengthen capacity, share expertise, and shape a path towards a fairer and more equitable Canada.
The 2019–2020 Global Resources Report: Government & Philanthropic Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities is coming soon!
Using a feminist lens, the seminar panel will discuss the needs of displaced persons and broader, media coverage, humanitarian response and foreign policy.
Are you interested in global surgery? Want to hear from interdisciplinary surgical providers and #healthcare professionals from around the world? Come to the Bethune Round Table 2022!
On June 23, Aga Khan Foundation Canada is pleased to host Nature-based Solutions, Climate Resilience, and the SDGs, welcoming a panel of experienced practitioners who aim to reduce climate risks, advance climate resilience, and support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
You are invited to our next virtual town hall in recognition of World Refugee Day 2022.
In honour of World Refugee Day, join us on Saturday, June 25, 2022, from 12:30 to 3:00 PM ET, to deepen your understanding of equality and human rights and the connection to the refugee crisis.
Registration is now open for Plan Canada's Youth Summit!
The VCE is an informal, interactive, and community-driven opportunity for you to engage with the wider IATI Community.
Engage in a discussion about the implementation of the SDGs, the shortcomings in implementation for those left furthest behind, and best practice responses to emerging threats to LGBTI+ communities.
CommunityFirst approaches to health and social issues among Inuit communities
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Women’s political leadership is critical for achieving the SDGs, including improving gender equity and SRHR in UHC outcomes. Join us for a virtual discussion tackling these issues on the sidelines of the UN High-level Political Forum.
On Wednesday, July 13, at 12pm ET, four member agencies of the Humanitarian Coalition will be hosting a Twitter Space to discuss the causes, context and response to the hunger crisis.
Join the Country Advocacy Working Group and the Interagency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises for a dynamic discussion on navigating the unique challenges of delivering sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian and fragile settings
July 21st is the day that we are looking forward to welcoming you in and starting on this journey together.
We cordially invite you to the 10th UCG Edition on Diabetes and Endocrinology Conference set up on July 27-28, 2022 in Dubai, UAE and Online. The theme of the conference is “Deliberate the important research and ongoing practices to reduce Diabetes”.
AIDS 2022 will take place from 29 July to 2 August 2022, with pre-conference meetings beginning on 27 July 2022.
Registration is now open for Plan Canada's Youth Summit!
On 23 December 1994, the United Nations General Assembly decided, in its resolution 49/214, that the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People shall be observed on 9 August every year. The date marks the day of the first meeting, in 1982, of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations. On this day, people from around the […]
Patient case studies, interactive trivia, and group discussions on the subject of gender bias in health experiences and medical care.
On August 12th, 2022, the 1st IDEAS for Gender Equality Community Building Event will be held in beautiful downtown Toronto, Ontario
WGH will be hosting, in partnership with other CSOs, four regional town halls in selected regions where there are high numbers of humanitarian emergencies that expose communities to Sexual Exploitation Abuse and Harassment
Nous sommes très heureux de vous confirmer que la 9ième édition du Congrès International d'Épidémiologie, initialement programmée en 2020, aura lieu du 18 au 20 août 2022, sur le campus de l'Université Laval à Québec (Canada). S'ajoute également une journée de pré-congrès, le 17 août, visant particulièrement les étudiant.e.s et les jeunes professionnel.le.s. Nous avons hâte de vous accueillir en sol […]
World Water Week is the place to explore new ways of managing water and tackle humanity’s greatest challenges
The 13th International Conference on the Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Handbook promotes health equity and aims to bring the health of mothers and their children to the forefront as, too often, social barriers make mothers feel invisible.
Medical Herstory's Feminist Research Conference featuring researchers, activists, lived experience panels, and workshops!
Lucky Iron Fish is hosting a digital lunch and learn session to showcase their latest data and research on the use of the Lucky Iron Fish to address iron deficiency anemia. Lucky Iron Fish offers a novel tool for iron deficiency anemia and provides in-depth training and resources for program implementation. Over the past 4 […]
In recent months, we've heard our members share the complexities and challenges of engaging communities and harnessing the power of social media to amplify their social impact. The Equal Futures Network, a CanWaCH initiative, has been working with the team and community at the On Canada Project to design a resource that helps leaders, communications practitioners, and social media managers […]
Learn the successful journey to becoming an international volunteer, connect with a community of change makers and volunteers and get your question answered by staff and past volunteers from: The International Bureau for Children’s Rights, Crossroads International, l'UPA Développement international, le Programme CLÉ, Co-Operative Development Foundation of Canada, Youth Challenge International, Veterinarians without Borders, Cuso […]
Engage with the Population Council and invited experts from UN-Habitat, PSI, and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in a panel discussion regarding urban disparities in SRHR, and the challenges and opportunities for leveraging the urban context to tackle these disparities. Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are a critical component of […]
Engage with the Population Council and invited experts from UN-Habitat, PSI, and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in a panel discussion regarding urban disparities in SRHR, and the challenges and opportunities for leveraging the urban context to tackle these disparities. Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are a critical component of […]
