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2026 Global Health Symposium
April 16, 2026
The Harvard Global Health Institute’s annual Global Health Symposium provides the opportunity for faculty, staff, and students across Harvard’s schools, institutes, centers, departments, and affiliated hospitals, as well as an international community of health professionals, academics, and civil society, to connect and engage in meaningful conversations around some of the most pressing global health issues in an inclusive hybrid experience.
On April 16, 2026, the Harvard Global Health Institute will host its 4th Annual Global Health Symposium, “Global Health Forward: Strength Through Innovation and Collective Action,” at the Smith Campus Center. This year’s gathering brings together leading voices in global health, humanitarian response, public policy, and health systems strengthening to examine the most urgent challenges shaping health worldwide.
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced its third annual Global Health Symposium will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, on April 10th -11th, 2025. Centered on the theme of Delivering on the Promise of Health Equity, the Symposium will bring together experts from across the globe and from within Harvard University to discuss some of the most pressing issues around global health.
The theme of this year’s Symposium is Partnerships in Action, which seeks to highlight innovative, action-oriented, and collaborative approaches aimed at achieving global health equity. David Walton, MD, MPH, the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator for the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, and Rocio Saenz, MD, the Executive Director of the Network of the Americas for Health Equity, will be this year’s keynote speakers.
More than 700 individuals from around the world joined a wide variety of sessions in person or online throughout the day at HGHI’s inaugural Global Health Symposium: Global Health Equity Through Community Engagement. Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director, Africa CDC, served as the event’s keynote speaker, highlighting Africa’s New Public Health Order.
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