PHC Annual 1-Day Health Ethics Conference 2025

Join us for the 2025 Annual 1-Day Ethics Conference. We acknowledge with gratitude and humility that this event will take place on the traditional and unceded homelands of the Coast Salish people, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). 

Healthcare systems worldwide are confronted by echoes of past injustices that continue to shape the landscape of health ethics today.

This conference seeks to trace the roots of health care and health ethics and understand the impact this history has on equity-owed groups. Our conference aims to not only highlight the historical origins of injustice but also to spotlight contemporary efforts with the goal of rectifying and preventing the impact of inequity and recurrence.

Attendees will explore how historical injustices have persisted and changed shape in health ethics over time, and will take part in thoughtful dialogues about how to reimagine what it means to engage in ethical decision-making and approaches through voices that have been historically overlooked and unheard. By focusing on re-imagining and revising ethical frameworks and interventions, the conference will challenge participants to rethink traditional paradigms and develop innovative strategies that address systemic inequities. 

Through a comprehensive exploration, spanning past, present, and future, this conference will illuminate pathways towards more equitable and ethical health care systems.  

Call for Abstracts

We invite abstract submissions for poster presentation that are relevant to the conference theme: traversing health inequities in health ethics. 

Students, health care providers, policy makers, academics, researchers, and others who are interested in health ethics are invited to submit an abstract to showcase projects, practice approaches, and research at the intersections of health care ethics, historical contexts, and equity. 

Submissions due by January 13, 2025. Authors will be notified by February 14, 2025.  Email: ethicsconference@providencehealth.bc.ca 

Meet some of our Faculty!

Venue: Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in downtown Vancouver