Every WHYI program is designed to accelerate your journey from emerging professional to global health decision-maker, with real credentials, real networks, and real impact.
Quarterly events featuring ministers of health, WHO officials, and emerging health innovators. The WHYI Speaker Series brings the most influential voices in global health directly to the next generation.
Sessions are offered in both virtual and in-person formats, giving members flexible access wherever they are. All sessions are recorded and distributed as podcast and YouTube content.
Ministers, WHO officials, and health innovators in conversation with the next generation.
Youth-led committees, mentorship, and structured community for serious public health professionals.
WHYI Connect is a curated professional community organized around issue-based committees, each youth-led and meeting monthly. Members join the committee that matches their passion and build deep expertise alongside peers who share it.
Each committee meets monthly, is led by an emerging professional, and focuses on a specific area of global health. Members may join one or more.
Examining structural drivers of health disparities and advancing policy solutions across racial, economic, and geographic lines.
Focusing on gender-responsive health systems, maternal health, reproductive rights, and women's leadership in global health.
Centering Indigenous perspectives, sovereignty, and self-determination in health policy, with a particular focus on Canada's Indigenous communities.
Exploring the intersection of environmental change and public health, from air quality to heat stress to climate-displaced populations.
Advancing global mental health policy, reducing stigma, and developing youth-led advocacy strategies at local and international levels.
Building skills in health diplomacy, international negotiations, and multilateral engagement with WHO, UN, and global health institutions.
Analyzing lessons from COVID-19 and building frameworks for global health security, early warning systems, and equitable vaccine access.
Exploring digital health, health technology, and systems strengthening across low- and middle-income country contexts.
The most prestigious program WHYI offers. Competitively selected delegations attend major international health and diplomatic forums, representing the next generation on the world stage and producing substantive policy recommendations.
Delegates complete a 6 to 8 week pre-delegation training program in policy writing, diplomacy skills, and issue-specific deep dives before attending their assigned forum.
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Application dates, cohort sizes, and training schedules will be announced to members first. Join free now to be first in line.
From application to the international stage, a complete pathway for emerging health diplomats.
Two days. Hybrid format. The brightest emerging minds in global health together.
The WHYI Annual Summit is a two-day hybrid flagship conference bringing together emerging voices in global public health with established leaders, policymakers, and innovators.
WHYI is building a network of in-person bilateral health discussions in cities across Canada and the United States, bringing the global health conversation to emerging leaders where they live and work.
Building world health bilateral discussions, city by city.
Founding membership is free for year one. Join now and get priority access to every program, delegation, and city event we launch.