Videos & Webinars
Canada’s Leadership in Global Health: Advancing Gender Equality and SRHR
OctobER 2025
Join the Canadian Association for Global Health (CAGH) for a powerful discussion showcasing Canada’s leadership in shaping global health policy, research, and action—particularly in advancing gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Youth Action on Climate, Water & Neglected Tropical Diseases
June 2024
This webinar hosted in partnership with the Canadian Network for NTDs and our very own Climate Change and Health Working Group (CCHWG) will explore the connections between climate change, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), and access to clean water and sanitation, and what it means for our health. These three key challenges in global health are interconnected and require sustained efforts by governments and citizens to address. This webinar will also explore examples of integrated approaches to NTD prevention in the Americas and Asia. It will also take a look at the role of youth action on climate, water and sanitation, and NTDs as essential for building a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable future for all.
Climate change & health
October 2022
This exciting panel discussion brings together four authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Sixth Assessment Report. Join us as we explore the science behind climate change decisions, including ways the IPCC reports can be leveraged to support global health policy, action and decision-making at COP27.
Digital Storytelling as a Tool in Global Health
September 2022
Digital storytelling is a participatory visual media creation methodology that guides participants in the creation of their own short films, and has been used by health researchers across many disciplines as a tool for knowledge generation, education, advocacy, and as a therapeutic intervention. This session briefly explores the theoretical foundations, ethical principles, and creative process of digital storytelling as well as provides examples of digital stories created and facilitated by local Ugandans in partnership with Mbarara University of Science and Technology, the University of Calgary, and Common Language Digital Storytelling.
Innovation Transformed by Participatory Action Research
may 2022
This webinar was a collaboration between CAGH's Working Group on Climate Change and Health (WGCCH) as well as CoPEH-Canada. CoPEH-Canada is a community of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the understanding, teaching, and application of ecosystem approaches to address current challenges to health and sustainability.
Homelessness, Climate Change, & Health Disparities
April 2022
Dr. Sean Kidd addresses the physical and mental health implications of global climate change. This overview is provided alongside an exploration of the implications of climate change for health inequities with a particular focus on inadequately housed and unhoused populations globally. Examples from a response framework, generated through global think tanks and systematic reviews, will be described.
Climate Change & Health: A Nigeria Perspective
march 2022
In this presentation, community members from the Nigeria-Canada Research Partnership discuss the impacts of climate change on health from a Nigerian perspective. They also address the country's vulnerability to pollutants, the role it has with regards to the Paris Agreement, and provide solutions and proposals.
Reflecting on the Complex Links between the Ecological Crisis & Displacement/Migration
march 2022
In this presentation, Dr. Andrea Cortinois discusses how the ongoing and deepening global ecological crisis is rapidly becoming one of the most significant drivers of displacement/migration. The links between the two phenomena are complex and only partially understood. The webinar also briefly discusses the complexity, contextualization and suggests key questions relevant to both research and action.
Sparking Global Collaboration: The Cochrane Climate-Health Working Group
February 2022
In this presentation, Denise Thomson will talk about the enthusiasm that sustains the group’s work and why it believes that evidence synthesis and knowledge translation are so important. Denise will describe some of the projects, particularly a three-year initiative that will shortly get underway with the Office of National Statistics at the National Health Service (UK), on developing standards and models for describing the interaction of climate and health in global official statistics.
Addressing NTDs for the Health of Women & Adolescent Girls
FEbruary 2022
This joint webinar takes a look at preventing and treating soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis in adolescent girls and women of reproductive age, and the new WHO policy on deworming for this key population.
Climate Change & Health: Where is Canadian Global Health Research?
january 2022
This webinar will address how today’s children experience the health impacts of climate change throughout their lifetime.
