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✨ AfrIPEN 2026 — Save the Date ✨

Mark your calendars as we prepare to gather Africa’s interprofessional community under the theme:
🌍 African Wisdom, Global Relevance: Reclaiming Interprofessional Futures
From partnership building and pre-conference engagement to dynamic conference sessions, AfrIPEN 2026 will bring together educators, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers committed to strengthening collaborative practice across the continent.

📅 Key dates to remember:
• Abstract submissions close: 31 March 2026
• Abstract outcomes released: 30 April 2026
• Registration deadline: 30 June 2026
• Partnership Building Day: 31 August 2026
• Conference: 1–3 September 2026

Join us at the University of the Western Cape as we rise together toward interprofessional futures shaped by Africa.

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☕🌍 Interprofessional Global Café | Free Registration

Seeing IPE Through the Student Lens:
Perceptions, Challenges, and Opportunities

What does interprofessional education really look like from the student perspective?
Join our next Interprofessional Global Café for an open, interactive conversation exploring how students experience IPE – what works, what challenges remain, and where the real opportunities lie.

🎤 Guest Speaker:
Sivapriya Ramakrishnan
University of Sharjah (UAE)

🎙 Moderator:
Doreen Herinek
IP.Global | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

📅 27 February 2026 (Friday)
⏰ UTC 09:00 | GMT 09:00 | GST 13:00
💻 Zoom | Free registration

This Global Café invites educators, researchers, students, and practitioners worldwide to exchange perspectives, learn from lived experiences, and reflect together on the future of interprofessional learning.

👉 Register for free: https://interprofessional.global/ip-global-cafe-27-feb-2026/

Let’s listen to student voices and shape IPE together. 🌱

GLOBAL CAFE VIDEO

Transforming Interprofessional Education with Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation: A Case Study in Nursing and Pharmacy

26 January 2026

Presenters: Teresa Maggard Stephens, Marc Lapointe, Dawn Terzulli, Kristen Poston, Medical University of South Carolina

Read more: https://interprofessional.global/ip-global-cafe-vr-simulation/

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MkRhZU_XfQk

Global Café - Jan 2026 - Transforming IPE with Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation 26 January 2026PresentersTese StephensMarc LapointeDawn Michelle TerzulliKristen Poston(All presenters are affiliated with the Medical University of South Ca...

🌍 Global Café Recap | Interprofessional Learning in Immersive VR

Today’s Global Café brought together an inspiring international group of educators, clinicians, and researchers to explore how immersive virtual reality simulation (IVRS) can transform interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

Building on a rich interprofessional case study, the session sparked thoughtful discussion on how virtual environments can support authentic teamwork, shared decision-making, and learning with, from, and about each other across professions. The exchange highlighted not only technological innovation, but also the pedagogical and relational dimensions that make immersive learning meaningful.

A sincere thank you to our speakers and panelists for sharing their expertise, and to all participants for the engaged dialogue, critical questions, and global perspectives that truly define the Global Café spirit.

We are grateful to everyone who joined us today and helped make this session such a success. More Global Cafés are coming soon — we look forward to continuing these conversations across borders and professions.

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✨ AfrIPEN 2026 ✨

SUBTHEME 3: Reclaiming Power: Decolonial Pedagogies in IPE
This subtheme invites us to reflect on the histories and power structures that have shaped health professions education. It asks how we might embrace decolonial approaches that centre African voices, restore equity, and cultivate dignity within learning spaces.
By reclaiming power, we reimagine interprofessional education as a site of liberation: one where collaboration is built on justice.
Join us at the University of the Western Cape, 31 August – 3 September 2026, as we rise together toward interprofessional futures shaped by Africa.

Reimagine health professions education with us in Singapore.

The SingHealth Duke-NUS Education Conference 2026 (SDEC 2026), in collaboration with the APIPEC Network, takes place 25–26 September 2026.

The programme will spotlight innovative skills development, competency-based learning, and best-practice approaches across Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region.

📣 Call for Abstracts & Proposals 📣 is now open
🗓️ Extended deadline: 6 March 2026

We welcome submissions from healthcare educators, clinicians, researchers, and learners worldwide.

👉 Submit here (by 6 March):
https://www.singhealthdukenus.com.sg/conference/SDEC2026/Submissions/Call-for-Submissions

Why attend?
🌍 Connect with global educators
🤝 Explore interprofessional learning innovations
🎤 Share your work with an international audience

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at SDEC–APIPEC 2026.

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12th International Conference on Interprofessional Practice and Education
Nicosia, Cyprus, June 14-18, 2027

Hosted by Interprofessional.Global, International Network for Health Workforce Education (INHWE) and European University Cyprus

🚀 Ready to experience how immersive VR can elevate Interprofessional Education (IPE) in a practical, scalable way?

Join our Interprofessional.Global Café (free, on Zoom) for an engaging case study from Nursing and Pharmacy featuring colleagues from the Medical University of South Carolina.

🗓 26 January 2026 (Monday)
🕗 St Louis (CT) 08:00 | 🕘 Charleston (ET) 09:00 | 🌍 UTC/GMT 14:00
🎥 Zoom | ✅ Free registration

🎯 Topic
Transforming Interprofessional Education with Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation: A Case Study in Nursing and Pharmacy

🎙 Speakers (MUSC)
Tese Stephens • Marc Lapointe • Dawn Michelle Terzulli • Kristen Poston
🎤 Moderator: Eman El-labbad (Ain Shams University)

💬 Expect a Global Café vibe: short inputs, real discussion, and space to connect across professions and regions. Bring your questions and curiosity.

Read more and register for free: https://interprofessional.global/ip-global-cafe-vr-simulation/

📣 Call for Hosts | All Together Better Health (ATBH) XIII – 2029 🌍🤝
Interprofessional.Global warmly invites initial Expressions of Interest to host the ATBH XIII Conference in 2029.

ATBH conferences welcome up to 900 delegates from around the world, including health and social care professionals, educators, policymakers, students, and service users and carers—united by a shared goal to improve health outcomes through collaboration.
✅ Eligibility to host:
Interested organisations should:
• Be active in health and/or social care and/or higher education in these fields (or be a regional IPE/CP network or consortium)
• Be willing to work closely with a regional network represented on Interprofessional.Global
• Assume full financial responsibility for the conference
• Commit to delivering a 3-day conference (between May–November 2029, dates agreed with Interprofessional.Global)
• Provide an accessible international venue with accommodation for at least 500 delegates over three days
• Preferably demonstrate a strong track record in IPE and collaborative practice, nationally and internationally

📅 Deadline for ATBH 2029 host proposals: 1 September 2026
Applications are also welcome for 2031 (and 2033).

💡 If your organisation is ready to convene the global IPECP community and shape the future of collaborative practice, we would be delighted to hear from you.

More Information: https://interprofessional.global/hosting-atbh/
Contact: [email protected]

🗓️ Next conference: ATBH XII will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus (14–18 June 2027) 🇨🇾

📣 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/

🌍 Big news for the global IPECP community

🇨🇾 Cyprus will host ATBH XII in June 2027 — the world’s leading conference on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP).

🎓 Hosted in Nicosia, ATBH XII will be co-hosted by
🤝 International Network for Health Workforce Education (INHWE)
🏥 European University Cyprus (EUC)

✨ ATBH brings together health and social care
👩‍⚕️ practitioners
👨‍🏫 educators
🔬 researchers
🎓 students
🧭 policy makers
🧑‍⚕️ service users, and
…all committed to advancing collaborative, people-centred care.

ATBH XII will feature:
🎤 plenary sessions
🧩 interactive workshops
🎯 student challenges
📌 poster presentations
🌐 global networking opportunities

👥 More than 500 delegates from around the world are expected.

🏛️ This will be the first time ATBH is hosted in Southern Europe, highlighting the region’s growing leadership in innovation, collaboration and interprofessional learning.

💬 Leaders from INHWE, EUC, SE-IPEN and Interprofessional.Global emphasise that ATBH XII will
🤝 strengthen global partnerships
📚 connect people, evidence and practice
💡 foster innovation in education and service
⚖️ promote teamwork, equity and people-centred care
🌎 drive sustainable improvement in health and social care systems

🔗 More information: atbh.org