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  • Saving Children’s Lives in Global Health: When Public Health Measures Are Not Enough

    2nd floor Auditorium, Children's National Health System 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Featured Speaker: Peter A. Meaney, MD MPH, Associate Professor, Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pediatrics at Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Director, Center for Global Pediatric Clinical Care Public health measures improve the wellbeing of communities. Vaccination campaigns and the promotion of family planning are two examples. However, sustainable health initiatives are sparse in low and […]

  • Duke University Conference on Decolonizing Global Health 2020

    Love Auditorium @ Levine Science Research Center 450 Research Drive, Durham, North Carolina, United States

    For anyone interested in global health, public health, or diversity training. Livestream the conference at the link below. As described by Duke: "Global health as we know it today – in our research, our practice, and our programming – is the newest configuration of what was once ‘tropical health’ and ‘colonial medicine’. Yet in most […]

  • Research, Education, and Innovation Week 2026

    2nd floor Auditorium, Children's National Health System 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Each year, Children’s National Research Institute (CNRI) hosts Research, Education and Innovation (REI) Week to showcase the wide array of research and education programs occurring throughout the institution. This week-long celebration includes over 300 poster presentations, guest lectures, educational workshops and panel discussions. REI Week began in 2000 as a Research Day in order to […]

  • World Malaria Day

    “Zero malaria starts with me” After more than a decade of steady advances in fighting malaria, progress has levelled off.  According to WHO’s latest World malaria report, no significant gains were made in reducing malaria cases in the period 2015 to 2017. The estimated number of malaria deaths in 2017, at 435 000, remained virtually unchanged over […]

  • World Asthma Day

    World Asthma Day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma to improve asthma awareness and care around the world. World Asthma Day takes place on the first Tuesday of May. The inaugural World Asthma Day was held in 1998.

  • International Children’s Day

    The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 to be International Children’s Day in 1925. It is usually marked with speeches on children’s rights and wellbeing, and other events involving or dedicated to children.

  • World Refugee Day

    Every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror. World Refugee Day is an expression of solidarity with people who have been uprooted from their homes by war or persecution. Held every year on June 20th, we commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees.   

  • World Population Day

    What is World Population Day? World Population Day, which seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987.

  • World Humanitarian Day

    "Every year on World Humanitarian Day, we shine a spotlight on the millions of civilians around the world whose lives have been caught up in conflict. On this day we also take a moment to honour the brave health and aid workers who are targeted or obstructed as they set out to help people in […]