10th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference

10th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference is organized by Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) and will be held from Mar 08 - 10, 2019 at Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Pre-Conference will be held on Mar 07, 2019
These half and full-day satellite sessions convene leaders and specialists to collaborate and address big global health challenges. 

Satellite Sessions:
• 3rd Annual Global Surgery Day
• 7th Annual Global Cancer
• Emergency Health Care Systems
• Global is Local
• Gender Equality
• Building GH Masters Curricula
• Global Health Education
• Child Migration, Health, Nutrition
• Planetary Health
• Advancing Global Health Careers?? and more...?

Registration for satellite sessions (March 7, 2019) are separate from registration for the conference (March 8 -10, 2019).

Conference Description:
The theme is, Translation and Implementation for Impact in Global Health. The meeting will bring together leaders across a broad range of areas to share with us what we can do to overcome the knowledge-needs gap, scale up evidence-based solutions and impact public policies so we can effectively address the pressing global challenges we face. Attendees will have many opportunities to engage, learn, contribute and collaborate with each other in a dynamic, inspiring environment.  

There will be continuity with previous conference sub-themes, so we can build on previous efforts across: planetary health- One Health- environmental health; governance and institution strengthening; infectious diseases; non-communicable diseases and the social determinants of health. We will also introduce new areas that reflect the meeting’s theme.

Our annual meeting has become the world's leading academic global health conference. It will bring together leaders from universities, NGOs, think tanks, the private sector and government. Over 1800 global health practitioners, faculty, professionals, and students from academia, NGOs, governments, foundations, and the private sector, representing diverse fields including: medicine, nursing, public health, veterinary sciences, engineering, business, law, public policy, urban planning, natural sciences, environmental studies, economics and more will be in attendance.

Session Topics:
• Universal Healthcare
• Human Rights, Global Health-based Governance   
• Disaster Risk Reduction / Community Resilience 
• PAHO Commission on Equity, Health Inequalities 
• Palliative Care – Global Health Priority  
• Training Overseas: Unethical to Illegal Behaviors  
• Quality of Care: NASEM Report  
• Lancet Commission on TB  
• Health Care of Refugees  
• Migration & Health 
• Mentoring in LMICs 
• Healthy Cities, Urbanization
• Gun Violence in the Americas
• Gender Equality in Global Health

Program Tracks:
• Governance, Human Rights, Ethics, Global Health Law, Violence, and Migration.
• Human Resuorces, Health Systems, Strengthening Public Institutions, Global Health Economics
• Translation and Implementation Science
• Non-Communicable Disesaes & Communicable Diseases
• Planetary Health, One Health, Environmental Health, Climate Change
• Social Determinants of Health
• What Works/What Doesn't Work: Examples of high Impact Development/Global Health/Environmental Programs