GLOBAL CAFE VIDEO
The Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE) Collaborative
28 May 2026
Presenters:
Andrew Wiss – The George Washington University- Milken Institute School of Public Health
Mary Showstark – Yale University
Gérard Filies – University of the Western Cape; AfrIPEN
Luzaan Kock-Africa – University of the Western Cape
Hanlie Pitout – Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University; AfrIPEN
Farhin Delawala – AfrIPEN
@IPEAfrica
Moderator:
Suzy Plows – Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE); University of Nottingham
@CAIPEUK
View on YouTube: https://t.co/vCq3UXkmZW
Learn more and view on website: https://t.co/h8OOHtNSXY
🌍☕ Join us for the next https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6 Café!
This month, we are excited to welcome an outstanding international panel discussing the 🌐 Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE) Collaborative and the future of digitally connected interprofessional learning.
Together with colleagues from the 🇺🇸 USA, 🇿🇦 South Africa, and beyond, we will explore how virtual collaboration can strengthen interprofessional education, global partnerships, and collaborative practice across health professions.
🎤 Featuring contributions from:
✨ Andrew Wiss
✨ Mary Showstark
✨ Gérard Filies
✨ Luzaan Africa
✨ Hanlie Pitout
✨ Farhin Delawala
Moderated by ✨ Suzy Plows (CAIPE UK)
📅 28 May 2026
🕓 16:00 CET
💻 Online via Zoom
🆓 Free registration
We are looking forward to another inspiring global conversation bringing together educators, researchers, practitioners, and students passionate about interprofessional education and collaboration.
👉 Register now via: https://t.co/h8OOHtNSXY
#InterprofessionalEducation #IPE #VIPE #HealthcareEducation #CollaborativePractice #HealthProfessionsEducation #GlobalHealth #Interprofessional #DigitalLearning #InterprofessionalGlobal #Networking #HealthEducation
🌍☕ Join us for the next https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6 Café!
We are delighted to invite you to an inspiring conversation on
ATBH XII – Collaborative Virtues: Building Resilient Teams Through Shared Values
This session will explore how shared values can strengthen collaboration, resilience, and teamwork across health professions and global contexts.
🎤 Speakers
David Smith
Director, International Network for Health Workforce Education (INHWE)
Elizabeth O. Johnson
Dean, School of Medicine, European University Cyprus
🗣️ Moderator
Alla El-Awaisi
https://t.co/1mfPdReVfG Board Member
📅 30 April 2026, Thursday
🕒 St. Louis 06:00 | UTC 11:00 | London 12:00 | Nicosia/Doha 14:00 | Singapore 19:00
💻 Zoom Video Communications
✅ Free registration
This Global Café offers a valuable opportunity to connect with colleagues worldwide and engage in dialogue on collaboration, values, and resilient teams in health professions education and practice.
We look forward to welcoming you there.
🔗 Registration and details via the IPG site
https://t.co/8oYwwZMS4L
#InterprofessionalEducation #Collaboration #Teamwork #Resilience #ATBHXII
https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6 stands with the World Health Organization on April 7th, World Health Day 2026, where we collaborate to unite and mobilize the world under the theme “Together for health. Stand with science.” celebrating the power of scientific collaboration to protect the health of people, animals, plants, and the planet.
This year‑long campaign spotlights both scientific achievements and the multilateral cooperation needed to turn evidence into action.
Learn more: https://t.co/r8VdZKSmIC
#WorldHealthDay #StandWithScience #interprofessional #collaboration #international #global
https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6 supports International Women's Day 2026 and its theme of ‘Give To Gain'
When we give, we gain.
Together, let's help forge gender equality through abundant giving.
The IWD 2026 Give To Gain Campaign encourages a mindset of generosity and collaboration.
Give To Gain emphasizes the power of reciprocity and support. When people, organizations, and communities give generously, opportunities and support for women increase. Giving is not a subtraction, it's intentional multiplication. When women thrive, we all rise.
Whether through donations, knowledge, resources, infrastructure, visibility, advocacy, education, training, mentoring, or time, contributing to women's advancement helps create a more supportive and interconnected world.
Read more: https://t.co/wCAGozPvqs
#IWD2026 #Global #interprofessional #collaboration #GiveToGain
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://t.co/LrrLAtvtlJ
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.
#HealthProfessionsEducation #InterprofessionalEducation #CollaborativePractice #CompetencyBasedEducation #HealthcareEducation
⏰ Tonight at 23:59 is the deadline to submit an abstract for the AMEE Conference 2026 and the Integrated Ottawa event.
Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your work and be part of an international community of health professions educators.
🚨 https://t.co/ZGnLzKHykl
Connect with All Together Better Health (ATBH) XII on social media!
Instagram and Twitter: @atbh_org
Facebook: https://t.co/Ia2JY4N0xB
12th International Conference on Interprofessional Practice and Education
Nicosia, Cyprus, June 14-18, 2027
🚀 Ready to experience how immersive VR can elevate Interprofessional Education (IPE) in a practical, scalable way?
Join our https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6 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://t.co/ZMQn1ugLnt
#InterprofessionalEducation #IPE #CollaborativePractice #VirtualReality
📣 Call for Hosts | All Together Better Health (ATBH) XIII – 2029 🌍🤝
https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6 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 https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6
• Assume full financial responsibility for the conference
• Commit to delivering a 3-day conference (between May–November 2029, dates agreed with https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6)
• 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://t.co/hz94iurIVO
Contact: [email protected]
🗓️ Next conference: ATBH XII will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus (14–18 June 2027) 🇨🇾
#ATBH #Interprofessional #InterprofessionalEducation #CollaborativePractice #IPECP
📣 Call for Abstracts: TUFH 2026
Have an idea, project, or experience to share? Submitting an abstract is easy and gives you the chance to present to a global audience 🌍
🧭 Theme: Bayanihan for Health Equity
📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2026
🔗 https://t.co/EAEsljTzb6
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) @INHWE_Network and 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 https://t.co/G4MzDs9es6 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: https://t.co/uocNykQKaR
@ATBH_org
#ATBH #ATBH2027 #InterprofessionalEducation #CollaborativePractice #IPECP
GLOBAL CAFE VIDEO
“Coffee without pain”: IPEC-Care Program for Chronic Pain
5 December 2025
Presenters
Mariana Cozer Siviero
Fernanda Brenneisen Mayer
Moderator
Anthony Breitbach
Read more: https://t.co/kVuy9DledT
YouTube link: https://t.co/Qttr0xDook
Interesting and informative https://t.co/1mfPdReVfG Café this morning presented by Mariana Cozer Siviero and Fernanda Brenneisen Mayer highlighting the "Coffee Without Pain" IPEC-Care Program’s interprofessional approach to chronic pain in Brazil!
#international #interprofessional #scholarship
NEW PUBLICATION!
Summary of data from the 2024 Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) Regional Summit engaging stakeholders from academia and industry around the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Core Competencies, Version 3 (2023).
Engaging to Build Readiness for Interprofessional Clinical Practice: Utilizing a Stakeholder Engagement Model to Develop Action Strategies
Justin H. Rigby; Amber Boyd; Anthony Breitbach; Sarah L. Canham; Genevieve Pinto Zipp
Journal of Allied Health
Access article here: https://t.co/OSEr0o1vCE
Grateful for the opportunity to virtually present on the Saint Louis University IPE Program on an Interprofessional panel in Turkey with international colleagues Dr. Jan-Jaap Reinders, Dr Vikki Park, Dr. Hossein Khalili and Dr. Michael Sy for the XVth National I. International Medical Education Congress hosted by Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Faculty of Medicine. Thank you to Dr. Giray Kolcu and Dr. Mukadder İnci Başer Kolcu for the invitation!
#international #interprofessional #collaboration
@SLU_IPE@SLUHealthNews@InterprofGlobal
An esteemed panel of global health professionals shared their time and expertise with Saint Louis University students in IPE 2100 Interprofessional Education and Healthcare in a Global Context on November 20, 2025 to discuss the health care systems in their respective countries.
Moderator: Dr. Alison Power (UK)
Panelists: Dr. Luzaan Kock-Africa (South Africa), Dr. James Debenham (Australia), Dr John H.V. Gilbert (Canada), Dr Vikki Park (UK), Dr. Jan-Jaap Reinders (Netherlands) and Dr. Michael Sy (Philippines)
Watch panel on YouTube: https://t.co/nOQWnv7Uio