PHC Annual 1-Day Health Ethics Conference 2026

Join us for the 2026 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). 

PHC’s 2026 Annual Health Ethics Conference will bring together scholars, clinicians, and community voices to examine the complex relationship between truth, trust, and ethics in healthcare. 

Through a series of presentations, this conference event will explore themes such as: 

• The rise of misinformation and dispute of ‘facts’: How has public trust in scientific and medical information eroded, and what can be done to repair it?
• Truth and Reconciliation in healthcare: Whose stories get told and what truths have been excluded or erased from healthcare discourses? How do we confront historical and ongoing harms to build pathways for justice, accountability, and healing?
• The ethics of truth-telling in clinical encounters: Navigating transparency, uncertainty, and the moral obligations of clinicians. 

This event invites dialogue across disciplines and communities to critically reflect on how health ethics can be reimagined in an age of uncertainty. Participants will leave with practical tools, fresh perspectives, and a renewed commitment to fostering trust in healthcare. 

Join us as we ask: Who owns the truth - and how do we build a more just and trustworthy healthcare system?   

Join us at the beautiful Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue located at 580 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC on April 24, 2026.

A 2 min walk from Waterfront Station, guests will have easy access from Vancouver International Airport (YVR) via the Sky Train, the North Shore via the Sea Bus, and communities served by the West Coast Express.

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Call for Abstracts

If you want to submit an abstract that might be relevant to the theme of the conference, please reach out to us at ethicsconference@providencehealth.bc.ca

PHC's 2025 Annual Health Ethics Conference has concluded! 
Thank you to all those who helped make the event a huge success!

Take a look at our 2025 conference (this event was held on April 11, 2025)

Echoes of the Past: Traversing Inequities in Health Ethics

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

This conference traced the roots of health care and health ethics and made an attempt to understand the impact this history has on equity-owed groups. This conference aimed 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 explored how historical injustices have persisted and changed shape in health ethics over time, and took 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 challenged participants to rethink traditional paradigms and develop innovative strategies that addressed systemic inequities. 

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

Meet some of our 2025 Speakers!