The evolving landscape of global health funding and shifting priorities are redefining how we work together. Countries are reshaping how they address the direct impact on critical health infrastructure by strengthening new and existing collaborations between governments and the private sector. Vaccine delivery is one area where these partnerships are already achieving positive results. Join us for a focused discussion on how nations are advancing local vaccine manufacturing to accelerate health equity. Our panel of experts will offer insights into what national ownership looks like for vaccine development and distribution today, especially as traditional donor support declines. Whether you are a current or future health professional, policymaker, advocate, or researcher, you will gain valuable perspectives on how countries are shaping the future of vaccines and health systems amid shifting global support.

Since the early stages of his career, Joseph P. Gone has been examining depression and problem drinking within his own community on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. During this work, he interviewed a cultural traditionalist named Traveling Thunder, who linked substance abuse challenges to the historical and ongoing impacts of Euro-American colonization on community life. Building on these insights, Professor Gone proposes an alternative Indigenous mental health discourse, an “alter-Native psy-ence”, that contests and recasts mainstream psychiatric concepts and reframes “mental health” problems as postcolonial disorders.