The theme for 2025 is “Back to the Future: Systems, Societies, Solutions”. With this topic, the organization wishes to explore how the global health field might reclaim and reimagine progress when many hard-won gains risk being lost.

The conversation will be framed across three interconnected dimensions:

• Systems: governance, regulation, and financing for health
• Societies: ethics, equity, and citizen agency
• Solutions: technologies and scientific breakthroughs

Together, these lenses will help practitioners ask: How can the world find its way back to a sustainable and just future for global health?

Illustrious speakers

Four speakers will share their reflections on the 2025 theme. They are:

• Dr Moses Mulumba: Director and Associate Professor (Ahaki Institute)
• Dr Maryam Shahmanesh: NIHR Global Research Professor (University College London) & Director of Implementation Science (Africa Health Research Institute)
• Dr Brooke Nichols: Associate Professor of Global Health (Boston University School of Public Health)
• Dr Rogier Sanders: Professor of Virology (Amsterdam UMC)