New Delhi, September 22-23, 2025 – Experts, youth leaders, grassroots activists, researchers, funders, and representatives from civil society from India, Nepal, and beyond called on global institutions to put solidarity at the heart of health systems, warning that resilience cannot be achieved through top-down strategies alone.
August 4th, 2025- Webinar Recap
26 June 2025- The Global Health Solidarity Open Forum took place on June 25, 2025, under the theme ‘A Solidarity of the Shaken? From Despair to Collective Action’. The virtual gathering brought together over 150 attendees including researchers, civil society organisations and activists, practitioners, and scholars from 33 countries. The event aimed to explore how solidarity can shape responses to global health challenges amid shifting political and funding landscapes.
30 April 2025- The Global Health Solidarity Project hosted its third bi-monthly webinar, bringing together leading voices from the worlds of activism, law, and art to explore the theme: "Artistic and Activist Understandings of Solidarity During Times of Trouble."
Solidarity in Action: Newsletter Sheds Light on Rural Women’s Assembly Summer School
8th April 2025 – The second bi-monthly webinar hosted by the Global Health Solidarity Project convened scholars and activists from diverse backgrounds to explore the complexities of solidarity in global health.
Titled Solidarity and Adjacent Concepts, Lessons and Practices from the Pacific Region, the session spotlighted Indigenous frameworks of care, ethical dimensions of trust in health research, and the role of allyship in advancing the rights of marginalised groups, including sex workers.
Trondheim, Norway – At the heart of the 2025 International Student Festival in Trondheim (ISFiT) was a powerful call to action: reclaiming agency and rethinking solidarity in global health. Under the theme, “POWER”, the Global Health Solidarity project played a central role in sparking dialogue on how young people can drive change.
San José, Costa Rica – The Mesoamerican Workshop on Solidarity and Global Health, held on 26–27 February at San José’s Museo Calderón Guardia, brought together activists, scholars, and policymakers from across Latin America to challenge conventional notions of solidarity in global health. The event, organised as part of the Global Health Solidarity Project, facilitated groundbreaking discussions on how solidarity must be reimagined in the face of colonial legacies, capitalist structures, and systemic inequities shaping health outcomes.
Excerpt by Dame Catherine Healy, delivered at the solidarity workshop held in Brisbane November 2024.
The long road to recognition
On the 5th of February 2025, the University of Nigeria Nsukka hosted an expert workshop bringing together an interdisciplinary and diverse group of academics and researchers in Igbo studies to explore conceptualisations of solidarity in the Igbo context. Organised by scholars from the University of Ghana, the University of Oxford (Prof. Caesar Atuire, Ms. Imogen Brown) and the University of Nigeria Nsukka (Rev. Fr. Prof.