Health is Global Symposium Programme

The Health is Global Research Symposium will take place on 21 and 22 October 2026 at the McEwan Hall.

health is global symposium

Wednesday 21 October

Location: McEwan Hall


Location: Main auditorium, McEwan Hall 

300 years of the world in Edinburgh and Edinburgh in the world. 


Location: Main auditorium, McEwan Hall

Health - a global commons, a global currency, a global asset. 


Location: Main auditorium, McEwan Hall 

How should we achieve equity and inclusion in global mental health partnerships in changing times (Global Mental Health Collaborative) 


Location: Main auditorium, McEwan Hall 

Gender Equity Determines Health – lessons from respiratory health in Asia (RESPIRE)


Location: Main auditorium, McEwan Hall 

Panel of Partner Leaders discussing multi-disciplinary research, policy making, global impact and reach 


Location: Robing Room, McEwan Hall

Please let us know in the Eventbrite registration form if you would like lunch. 


Main Auditorium: Pesticides and Methanol Poisoning (Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention) 

Foyer 5: Climate change and infectious diseases - a multi-country spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of climate variables in Brazil, Uganda and Nepal 

Foyer 4: AI and Health care – designing applications in Kenya, Mauritius and Scotland

 


Main Auditorium: Protecting health and wellbeing in a warming world – experiences from India 

Foyer 5: Toolkits to determine equitable outcomes - ETHICA-4Ps, Conceptualising Centrality SHIFT-SHARE

Foyer 4: AMR and conflict (AMR Forum)


Location: Main Auditorium, McEwan Hall 

Can we predict what is coming down the line for health globally in a fractured world? 

 


Location: Main Auditorium, McEwan Hall


Thursday 22 October

Location: McEwan Hall


Location: Main Auditorium, McEwan Hall 

 


High Commissioners and Ambassadors Panel. 

How can the collective work of universities working in partnership contribute to country specific agendas - including the following Health is political,  Health drives justice, Health builds trust, Health underpins economy, Health creates and sustains community, Health as diplomacy, Co-Benefits: Tackling climate change can improve health for all


Location: Robing Room, McEwan Hall 


Main Auditorium: Building equitable and resilient global health research partnerships: lessons from Botswana (BSRHI)  

Foyer 5: Challenges and lessons learned in Global Health Research

Foyer 4: Indigenous knowledges – different and new ways of knowing  


Main Auditorium: The Future of Health Research in Africa - responding to epidemics and pandemics (TIBA) 

Foyer 5: Stroke research in low and middle income countries – case study from Nepal 

Foyer 4: Palliative Care in primary health care - lessons from Argentina  


Location: Robing Room, McEwan Hall 

Please let us know in the Eventbrite registration form if you would like lunch. 


Presentation of the Alumni Future Health Papers


Location: Main Auditorium, McEwan Hall

Ministry of Health, Gambia, and the MRC Gambia – the impact of insecticide treated bed nets on malaria control. 


Designing with compassion for compassionate outcomes for a healthy people, healthy animals and a planet - how investing in health improves economic, social and geopolitical outcomes for the most underserved. 


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