Date:
October 30, 2025
Location:
Hart House, University of Toronto
Register:
Our first symposium, hosted October 2024, proved to be an important opportunity for our community to gather, develop connections, and learn from each other. We are thrilled to be hosting our Second Annual Symposium on October 30, 2025!
Registration Now Open
Symposium tickets will include continental breakfast and lunch.
Early-bird price*:
- $25 for students
- $100 for Collaborative Centre members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
- $125 for non-members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
Price after September 26*:
- $50 for students
- $125 for Collaborative Centre members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
- $150 for non-members (faculty, researchers, clinicians, healthcare administration)
*Early-bird pricing ends September 26, 2025.
A limited number of bursaries to subsidize registration cost are available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend. Please fill out this form to be considered:
Call For Panels
We are looking for individuals or groups to host panels. Please submit your panel ideas by March 14, 2025. Notifications will be sent out by April 4, 2025.
- Please submit your topic idea for a panel, which you would intend to host at the Symposium. Hosting will involve (1) populating the panel with 3-4 expert speakers (some of whom might be selected from paper submissions responding to the panel’s objectives, see below), (2) coordinating with speakers to ensure coherence and determine sequence of presentations and (3) on the day of, ensure speaker introductions and discussion moderation.
- Panel topics may vary widely but should be related to the climate change and health, planetary health, one health, sustainable healthcare, and related issues. For ideas, please see a summary of our 2024 Annual Symposium.
- Panels will run for 75 minutes and will typically include at least 3 speakers.
- Panel hosts may submit a fully populated panel, but we encourage submissions that are not fully populated. Hosts of these accepted panels will be asked to review and – where appropriate – accept high quality presentations that meet panel objectives, and which are submitted in response to our call for papers.
- A title for the panel
- An abstract that does not exceed 300 words, which provides an overview of the issues/topic to be covered (please note, hosts will have the opportunity to revise this description when all speakers are confirmed)
- 2-4 high-level learning objectives
- Panel submissions open: January 30, 2025
- Panel submissions deadline: March 14, 2025
- Notification: April 4, 2025
- Presentation and poster abstract submissions open: April 7, 2025
- Presentation and poster abstract submissions deadline: May 30, 2025
- Notification: June 27, 2025
- Late breaking and poster submission deadline: August 29, 2025
A scientific committee will review and select panels for the Symposium. At that point, we will open a call for papers/posters identifying the successful panels, and will invite the submission of papers that either (i) align with the topics and objectives of the selected panels, or (ii) address different topical issues.