The Network: Towards Unity For Health

01/08/2026

🌍 Calling all health education leaders! 📢

Applications are open for the TUFH Teaching Fellowship 2026 — an exciting opportunity to partner with global education innovators and adapt the Health Workforce for the Public Good (HWEPG) course for your region! 🚀

📚 Through weekly live sessions and ongoing mentoring, Teaching Fellows will:
✨ Build curriculum design and teaching skills
✨ Access and adapt proven course materials
✨ Develop a localized implementation plan
✨ Join a global network advancing socially accountable health workforce education

🗓 Deadline to apply: January 16, 2026
👉 Learn more & apply: https://thenetworktufh.org/tufh-teaching-fellows-2026/

🎓 Whether you’re connected to a TUFH Centre of Excellence or working to strengthen health education in your context, this fellowship is your chance to lead, innovate, and create impact.

01/08/2026

📣 Call for Abstracts:

Have an idea, project, program, or experience you want to share? Submitting an abstract for TUFH 2026 is easy—and it’s your opportunity to present to a truly global audience.

TUFH 2026 brings together educators, practitioners, policymakers, students, and community partners from around the world to learn from one another and strengthen health systems through collaboration and innovation.

🧭 Theme:
Bayanihan for Health Equity: Co-Creating Social Innovations for Responsive & Resilient Health Systems
Inspired by the spirit of Bayanihan, this year’s conference centers collective action, shared learning, and community-rooted solutions.

🔍 We welcome abstracts on:
• Community-driven health systems
• Equity by design in technology, data, and education
• Strengthening the global health workforce
• Turning policy into practice through local partnerships

🎤 Ways to present:
Oral Presentations • Workshops • TUFH Talks • TUFH Documentaries

✨ Whether you’re sharing research, practice-based insights, teaching approaches, or lived experience, your voice matters. The process is straightforward, and submitting an abstract is a simple way to join a global conversation.

📅 Abstract deadline: February 28, 2026
🌍 Join us in person or virtually at TUFH 2026.

🔗 Submit your abstract and be part of the movement.
https://tufh2026.com/abstract/

01/07/2026

📢 1994 – Sherbrooke, Canada 🇨🇦

🏛️ Hosted in Sherbrooke, Canada, this conference focused on advancing healthcare education and rural health initiatives.

💬 Were you there? Share your memories in the comments! 👇

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01/06/2026

📢 Call for Abstracts – IDD/Autism/Behavioral Integrated Health Summit at

Are you advancing research, practice, or policy in intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, or behavioral integrated health? 🌍
Submit your abstract to present at the IDD/Autism/Behavioral Integrated Health Summit, part of the TUFH 2026 Conference, and share your work with a global audience of educators, practitioners, researchers, and system leaders.

🗓 Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2026
🎤 Presentation formats include oral presentations, panels, and workshops
👉 Submit your abstract and be part of shaping the future of integrated health

In partnership with Woods System of Care and Mollie Woods Hare Global Center of Excellence

🔗 Learn more & submit: https://tufh2026.com/idd-autism-behavioral-integrated-health-summit/

01/06/2026

Teamwork Among First-Year Health Sciences Students in an Interprofessional Course: A Contact Theory Perspective

🤝 How does interprofessional education impact teamwork? This study applies contact theory to analyze student collaboration.
🔗 https://educationforhealthjournal.org/index.php/efh/article/view/130

Teamwork among first year health sciences students in an interprofessional course: a contact theory perspective. Article Sidebar PDF HTML XML Published: Dec 11, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.62694/efh.2024.130 Keywords: teamwork, interprofessional education, contact theory Main Article Content Adibah...

12/30/2025

Exploration of Global Community-Based Medical Education Curricula: A Scoping Review

🌍 How is community-based medical education implemented worldwide? This scoping review analyzes different curricula models.
🔗 https://educationforhealthjournal.org/index.php/efh/article/view/142

Exploration of global community-based medical education curricula: a scoping review Article Sidebar PDF HTML XML Published: Dec 11, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.62694/efh.2024.142 Keywords: scoping review, Medical students, curriculum, Community-based Medical education Main Article Content Vinayagam...

12/23/2025

Impact of Rural and Remote Clinical Placements on Future Intention to Practice

🏥 Can rural clinical exposure shape future careers? This study examines how placements influence medical students’ decisions.
🔗 https://educationforhealthjournal.org/index.php/efh/article/view/116

Impact of rural and remote clinical placements on future intention to practice Article Sidebar PDF HTML XML Published: Dec 11, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.62694/efh.2024.116 Keywords: Allied health students, Medical students, placement, rural, remote, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Main Arti...

12/17/2025

🌍 Register Now!

The 26th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC26) will take place in Birmingham, UK, April 13–15, 2026, under the theme:
🎯 “Integrated Care for All: Promoting Health and Wellbeing Through Diversity.”

📘 More info: www.integratedcarefoundation.org/ICIC26

🤝 TUFH Members receive a 20% discount on delegate registration! (contact secretariat@thenetworktufh.org)

The International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC26) takes place in Birmingham, UK from 13-15 April 2026.

12/16/2025

Medical Students’ Satisfaction Towards Videos as Flipped Classroom Materials

📺 Are videos effective for flipped classroom learning? This study evaluates medical students’ perspectives on video-based education.
🔗 https://educationforhealthjournal.org/index.php/efh/article/view/100

Medical students’ satisfaction towards videos as flipped classroom materials Article Sidebar PDF HTML XML Published: Sep 8, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.62694/efh.2024.100 Keywords: flipped classroom videos, student satisfaction Main Article Content Heba S. Omar MD, PhD, New Giza University and Ca...

12/11/2025

We are excited to announce the release of Education for Health Vol. 38 No. 4 (2025)!

This issue brings our mental health series to a close with an important contribution from the TUFH Community of Practice for IDD Population and Complex Care. The group sheds light on gaps in autism care and workforce education, opening the door to a global dialogue on better approaches and inclusive training.

You will also find a diverse range of articles, including innovations in obstetrics and gynecology clerkships, comparative AI use in health education, gender bias, teledentistry, public health leadership, surgical innovation, and student-led research from across the world.

Dive into the new edition and discover fresh insights shaping the future of health professions education.

https://educationforhealthjournal.org/index.php/efh/issue/view/8

12/09/2025

Assessment of Medical Interns in India Using Directly Observed Procedural Skills (DOPS) in the Workplace

🩺 Can direct observation improve medical intern training? This study explores how DOPS enhances skill assessment in India.
🔗 https://educationforhealthjournal.org/index.php/efh/article/view/102

Assessment of medical interns in India using Directly Observed Procedural Skills in the workplace Article Sidebar PDF HTML XML Published: Sep 8, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.62694/efh.2024.102 Keywords: DOPS, DOPS assessment, assessment clinical procedures, clinical procedures medical education, med...

12/09/2025

🌏 Join Us in the Philippines for TUFH 2026! 🇵🇭

We’re excited to announce that TUFH 2026 will be co-hosted by The Network: Towards Unity for Health and the University of the Philippines Manila!

✨ Theme: Bayanihan for Health Equity: Co-Creating Social Innovations for Responsive & Resilient Health Systems

Experience the Filipino spirit of communal unity (“Bayanihan”) as we come together to co-create stronger, fairer, and more resilient health systems worldwide.

📢 Be part of the movement:
🔹 Register now (Early Bird Discount): tufh2026.com/registration
🔹 Submit your abstract: tufh2026.com/abstract