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Upcoming Events 

3 - 16 June 2023 
IGU CONFERENCE ON HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: CHANGES, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD in Bucharest and Danube Delta, Romania

Past Events

12-14 September 2022
GeoSaúde 2022 Congress
Inequalities in health, inequalities in the territory: challenges for Portuguese-speaking countries in the post-pandemic context", which will take place face-to-face in Lisbon, Portugal and online." 

O Congresso GeoSaúde 2022, mantém o tema acrescentando-se umas notas sobre o contexto de pós-pandemia que pode trazer novos contributos para a discussão: “Desigualdades em saúde, desigualdades no território: desafios para os países de língua portuguesa em contexto de pós-pandemia”, nos dias 12, 13 e 14 de setembro de 2022, que decorrerá presencial em Lisboa, Portugal e online.

18-22 July 2022
 IGU/UGI Centennial Congress in Paris, France
The International Geographic Union will reach its ​100th anniversary in 2022. To celebrate this creation, the evolution of the discipline over the last century, and its contemporary and future significance, the French Committee of Geography (CNFG) is organizing an extraordinary conference, gathering geographers from all the continents.
19-24 June 2022
International Medical Geography Symposium 2021 in Edinburgh, Scotland
16-20 August 2021
34th International Geographical Congress, Istanbul, Turkey
25-28 September 2019
The 3rd CEGOT International Meeting, with the topic Territorial Cohesion and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Coimbra, Portugal
 4-5 July 2019
Contempory Issues in Food and Food Security 
An International Conference of the Hungry Cities Partnership (supported by the IDRC and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) and the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau
in Maputo, Mozambique
27-28 June 2019
Interdisciplinarity of Health and Healthcare, Lodz, Poland

30 June - 05 July 2019
International Medical Geography Symposium 2019, Queenstown, NZ

19-21 June 2019
Geosaude, Blumenau, Brazil
more information here
25 -26 September 2018
International Seminar Geography  & Health, held at Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil


4-6 June 2018
IGU Thematic Conference dedicated to the centennial of the Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

2-5 August 2018

Pre-Conference Workshop on Health, Healthcare and the Environment, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

6-10 August 2018
International Geographical Union Regional Conference " Accounting for Difference",
Quebec City, Canada

17-19 March 2017

Xth IGU International Thematic Conference Urbanization, Health & Well Being and Sustainable Development Goals, Hyderabad, India

27 June - 1 July 2017
VIII National Symposium of Health Geography, V International Forum of Health Geography, Dourados, Brazil
Health on the Border and the Frontier(s) of Health
. English description and program here

2-7 July 2017
17th International Medical Geography Symposium, Anger, France

11-15 September 2017
IGU Thematic Conference on Land Use/Cover Changes, Biodiversity, Health and Environment, Local and Regional Development
,  Bucharest & Tulcea, Romania

26-29 September 2017
14th International Conference on Urban Health, Coimbra, Portugal 
Health Equity: The New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals


14-16 December 2017
12th International Seminar on Medical Geography " Health, Ethics and Migration"  in Perugia, Italy / supported by IGU CHE21-25 August 2016
The 33rd International Geographical Congress - Shaping Our Harmonious Worlds, Beijing, China

Information on the Beijing, China IGU Travel Grant Program

18-21 August 2016
Pre-Conference to the IGC on Health Geography, Xi'an, China - more information here! 
Information on the Beijing, China IGU Travel Grant Program

5-10 July 2015
International Medical Geographic Symposium (IMGS), Vancouver, Canada

14-16 August 2015
Pre-Conference Commission on Health and the Environment, Vladimir, Russia
Registration here 


17-21 August 2015
International Geographical Union (IGU) Regional Conference, Moscow, Russia.

22-25 September 2015
VII Geosaude, Brasil


18-20 December 2014
XI Geomed on Health Management, Perugia, Italy
Infos on registration and abstract submission here personal form for registration here

19-22 October 2014
World Health Summit 2014, Berlin, Germany

18-22 August 2014
International Geographical Union (IGU) Regional Conference, Kraków, Poland

14-17 August 2014
Medical Geography Forum, Warsaw, Poland
Health and Environment IGU Commission workshop prior the IGU Meeting in Krakow, Poland

21-24 April 2014
GEOSAUDE Health Geography Congress for Portuguese speaking Countries, Coimbra, Portugal

6 March 2014
Healthy-Polis Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Environmental Health and Sustainability, Manchester, United Kingdom
Provisional Programme

4-7 March 2014
International Conference on Urban Health, Manchester, United Kingdom

17 - 20 November 2013
2nd GRF One Health Summit, in Davos, Switzerland

One Health - One Planet - One Future 
Risks and Opportunities 

October 2013
Annual student workshop on Global Environmental Change and Urban Health at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Hosted at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

11-13 September 2013
International Conference on Intra Urban Dynamics and Health 

4-9 August 2013
IGU Regional Conference Kyoto, Japan
Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth Future

7-12 July 2013 IMGS 

XVth International Symposium in Medical/Health Geography (IMGS) in Michigan

11 July 2013 IGU CHE meeting during IMGS in Michigan
Minutes of the meeting here

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