The sixth edition of the Global Community Health Annual Workshop will take place online on 9, 10 and 11 June 2026.
The health of Mother Earth is inextricably linked to human health and wellbeing. Climate change impacts vulnerable communities the most. It deepens inequalities and threatens both environmental and human health. These challenges also offer opportunities for collective action on the local level, innovation, and climate justice.
This year’s workshop, ‘Connecting planetary health, climate justice, and community health: from knowledge to impact’, invites participants to explore the links between planetary health and community health and wellbeing. We will look into mobilizing communities, including the involvement of young people, as agents of change, ensuring that climate solutions are just, accessible, and impactful taking into account indigenous perspectives. By bridging knowledge with action, we aim to inspire collaborative strategies that address the root causes of environmental degradation while fostering healthier, more resilient communities.
Audience
The Global Community Health Annual Workshop provides a space where community health practitioners, activists, policy makers, and researchers can learn and improve their skills. In 2025 over 500 participants from all regions of the world participated.
سخنرانان
We are honoured to have excellent contributors from all over the world. A preview of the contributors:
- Eliana Martínez Herrera – Lecturer and researcher at the National School of Public Health, University of Antioquia, Colombia
- Mélanie Boivin – Executive Director Centres Mamik, Québec, Canada
- Prof. Richard Osborne – Distinguished Professor of Global Health and Equity, Global Health and Equity Development Hub, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Australia
- Dr. Rudolf Abugnaba-Abanga – Research Fellow in Planetary Health, WAC-SRT, University of Business and Integrated Studies, Ghana, and University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Sarah Michaud – Promote Health Now Association, Morocco
- Adil Mansouri – Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Morocco
- Mary Ann Manahan – PhD Fellow, Conflict Research Group, Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
- Christelle Eugénie Gnimassou – Founding president of the NGO Triomphe de l’Intérieur, Benin
- Mafoko Phomane – Environmental Health Campaigner, groundWork, Friends of the Earth, South Africa
Format of the workshop
The online workshop will take place on 3 consecutive days, 3½ contact hours per day. To accommodate participants from all different time zones, the workshop will be offered twice a day.
- Block 1 will run from 10.00 – 13.30 Paris; 16.00 – 19.30 Beijing; 18.00 – 21.30 Melbourne.
- Block 2 will run from 16.00 – 19.30 Paris; 7.00 – 10.30 Los Angeles; 11.00 – 14.30 Buenos Aires
The workshop uses an interactive format ensuring active participation through a series of online lectures, combined with community heath hubs.
Community health hubs
The community health hubs (working groups) are offered in different languages including English, French, Spanish and possibly other languages. During the community health hubs participants can share experiences, build their regional and global networks and work on their individual assignments.
We encourage participants to gather locally and organise their own local community health hubs. They can follow the central lectures online together and then continue their discussions live in the local community health hubs.
Assignment
Participants can submit an individual assignment on their learnings of the workshop. Each assignment will be assessed and can be published on the Chair website, for future reference. After approval of the assignment participants will receive a certificate of attendance.
Language
The online lectures are held in English, French or Spanish. For translation into 50+ languages, including English, French, Spanish, Persian, Arabic and Chinese, we use an AI based translation app.
Registration free of charge
The Community Health Workshop will take place online and is free of charge. Practitioners, students, activists, policy makers and researchers from different backgrounds from all over the world are welcome to join. Participants need to register using the online registration form. Registration will close on Thursday 4 June 2026, 16.00 CEST.
Organisers
Organisers are the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, University of Clermont Auvergne, University of Huddersfield, EHESP School of Public Health, International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), Réseau Francophone International Pour la Promotion de la Sante (RÉFIPS), European Public Health Association (EUPHA) و Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht.
More information
For more information about the workshop, please visit the dedicated webpage.