2025: CUGH's 16th Annual Conference

Innovating and Implementing in Global Health for a Sustainable Future

From February 20 – February 23, 2025, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) held its annual in person global health conference in Atlanta, GA. The host institutions were Emory University, University of Georgia, and the University of Alabama Birmingham. Its theme was “Innovating and Implementing in Global Health for a Sustainable Future”. The conference agenda was filled with 170+ speakers and more than 40+ panels across various topics, disciplines, and countries that addressed many of the contemporary health challenges that we face today. We had over 13 Satellite Sessions at CUGH 2025 that spanned a wide range of topics. The conference convened individuals across sectors, organizations, and disciplines to share knowledge, build skills, or develop action plans to address specific global health challenges we face today.

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CS01 – Strengthening Nursing Excellence in Guyana: Addressing Attrition Through Recognition and Professional Development

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CS02 – Reflection in Global Health Essays

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CS07 – Oral Abstracts Presentations: Research, Education, Translation and Implementation Science, Bridging Research to Policy, Innovation and Research

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CS09 – Creating Equitable Partnerships Through Policy: Overcoming Federal, State, and Institutional Barriers to Bidirectional Global Health Education Exchanges

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CS10 – The Geriatric Tsunami: Care Needs of the Elderly and Potential Ways to Address Them in LMICs

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CS11 – Using the Social Determinants of Health to Guide Global Health Outcomes: ACHIEVE/LAUNCH FIC Global Health Alumni’s Work in the Field

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CS12 – Micro and Macro Plastic Perils: Human and Planetary Health Risks and Solutions

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CS13 – Oral Abstracts Presentations: Communicable Diseases, Pandemic Prevention, Detection and Response, Emerging Infectious Diseases

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CS15 – Introducing the Nature Commission on Quality Health Information for All: A Call for CUGH Attendee Input

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CS16 – Building a 21st-Century Healthcare Workforce: Innovations and Equity to Address Global Needs across High and Low-Middle Income countries.

CS17 – Addressing the Impact of Climate-Related Extreme Weather Events on Non-Communicable Diseases Around the World

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CS18 – Why Latin America Needs Its Own CDC

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CS19 – Global Health in a Divided World: Policy Debates in Health Journals

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CS20 – Global Health in China: Opportunities and Challenges for Continuing Collaboration

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CS21 – Empowering Geriatric Health: Integrating Social Determinants into Global Public Health Strategies

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CS22 – Learning Objectives and Competencies for Global Health

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PL04 – Plenary 4: Universities and the “Public Health System”: How Can They Do Better Together?

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CS24 – Global Health Humanities: Developing Curricula for LMICs That Align With Indigenous Knowledge and ‘Other Ways of Knowing’

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CS25 – Minority-serving Institutions Programs to Reduce Health Inequities

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CS28 – Advocacy for Global Health Partnerships: Towards Equitable Global Health Partnerships

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CS29 – Oral Abstracts Presentations: Environmental Determinants of Health, Planetary Health, One Health, Environmental Health, Climate Change, Biodiversity Crisis, Pollution

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CS30 – Equity and Safety for AI in Global Health

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PL06 – Plenary 6: Leveraging Implementation Research for Equity in Global Health

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CS32 – Research in LMICs: How to get started and how to keep going

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CS33 – Health Workforce Protection – Perils at the Frontline

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CS34 – Global Health 2050: Insights from the 3rd Report of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health 3.0

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CS36 – Partnering with Faith Communities to Strengthen Trust in Public Health – Georgetown Commission on Faith, Trust, and Health

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CS37 – Oral Abstracts Presentations: Governance, Political Determinants of Health, Diplomacy, Law, Anti-Corruption, Human Rights, Strengthening Public Institutions

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CS40 – Enhancing Cardiac Surgery Capacity in Africa: Insights, Challenges, and Strategies

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CS42 – Long Covid: An Emerging Global Health Crisis

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CS43 – Leveraging AI for Health Literacy and Patient Empowerment: Transforming Global Health Communication

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CS44 – Oral Abstracts Presentations: Global Health Education

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CS45 – Community Based Education to Enhance Readiness of Health Science Graduates to Realities in the Workplace: Experience from Ethiopian Universities

Recorded Session

Welcome and Keynote Presentation: What the Global Health Community Can Do to Improve Public Health Outcomes Across the Americas Given the Rise in NCD’s (with Keynote Speaker Dr. Rhonda Sealey-Thomas)

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Plenary 1: Building the Future: Strengthening Community, Workforce, and Monitoring the Pulse to Predict, Prepare, and Prevent Pandemics and Address Emerging Infectious Diseases.

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Plenary 2: Tackling Social Determinants: Challenges, Opportunities and Sustainable Solutions for Global Health.

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Plenary 3: Impacting Global Health Challenges in a World in Turmoil

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Plenary 4: Universities and the “Public Health System”: How Can They Do Better Together?

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Plenary 5: Transformative Solutions for Planetary Health

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Plenary 6: Leveraging Implementation Research for Equity in Global Health

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The Great Global Health Debate: Be It Resolved That Academia Should Be Engaged In Politics?

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CUGH 2025 Global Health Awards Ceremony

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Final Keynote: The Importance of Responsible Governance to Achieve Sustainable Global Health Outcomes (with Keynote Speaker Paige Alexander)

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