We are very pleased to announce that the 5th International Online Conference of Health Workforce Education will take place online on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th January 2027. The event is the 5th iteration of our online conference since we started during the covid pandemic. This two-day event is held to promote interdisciplinary, intercontinental co-operation and critical understanding of the latest research and practice in the field of health workforce education, training and development.
Conference Theme: Future of Healthcare Education
Conference Programme (Coming Soon)
Abstract Book (Coming Soon)
During a time of great change for global healthcare systems the future education of healthcare professionals is key to ensuring long term sustainability for populations. International institutions have called for policies that allow for the education of flexible health professionals capable of dealing with the ever-changing healthcare environment. A multi-stakeholder and interprofessional approach to tackling this issue is paramount to ensuring this takes place. Educators must ensure that they employ the most effective teaching methods, researchers must identify the right skill combinations for future professionals, and policy makers must make effective changes to national and international planning and legislation.
The health workforce faces several complex challenges at local, national and global levels. At the global level, a key challenge is the increasing number of mobile healthcare workers who are challenging country-based health workforce education and planning. At a national scale, research projects have identified that education and training must adapt to the skill requirements needed to keep the health workforce compatible with policy plans. Therefore, at a local level, educators must assess their curricula, the approaches they take to teaching and the assessment methods that they implement. The health workforce education community is already attempting to address some of these challenges, for example by moving towards interprofessional teaching, competency-based training programmes, and clinical reasoning education techniques, but there is still much work to be done.
The INHWE Online Conference of Health Education and Research encourages participants to discuss the diverse possibilities and challenges of "Future Education of Healthcare Professionals" with international colleagues. The online event would welcome presentations adopting local, national and/or international perspectives on:
Conference Sub-Themes
On the portal dedicated to abstract submission, authors are encouraged to use the "Keywords" field to categorise their abstracts/short papers under one or more of the following sub-themes:
One Health
Interprofessional Education
Intercultural Education
Intergenerational Training
Research in the Education and Training of Health Professionals
Digital Skills and Technology in Healthcare and Education
Health Workforce Policy & Research
Leadership & Health Management
Communication, Person-Centred Approach, Holistic Care
Planning and Organisation
Problem Solving
Team-based Learning (TBL)
The deadline for abstract submission falls on Monday 16th November 2026. If you need further assistance with submitting your abstract(s), please contact us at matteo.vezzosi@inhwe.org.
Registration opens on Monday 16th November 2026.
Please note: the 5th International Online Conference of Health Workforce Education is free to attend, with a "Pay What You Want" model, which we hope will open the event up to our diverse and wide-ranging membership. The PWYW model helps us cover running costs but is in no way to be understood as an obligation for participants, who are more than welcome to attend the event entirely free of charge.
Registration deadline: online registration closes on Monday 4th January 2027. Late registrants can contact us at matteo.vezzosi@inhwe.org but we cannot guarantee requests made less than a week prior to the event.
The INHWE Network is a free membership community that brings together healthcare educators and researchers from all disciplines with an aim to improve the education and training provided to health workforce professionals across the globe. Non-members are warmly invited to sign up on https://inhwe.network/ today and take advantage of our free services, discounts, and limited time offers for Members.