MedGlobal’s 2026 Conference & Gala brings healthcare leaders, humanitarian experts, medical professionals, advocates and supporters together in Chicago on 16–17 October 2026. The Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk hosts the annual gathering, whose theme is “Collaboration for Good: Innovation and Impact in Global Health.” The official announcement frames collaboration as a practical response to challenges that cannot be solved by a single organisation, sector or country.
The two-day conference focuses on expert panels, professional exchange and learning around humanitarian health. Announced areas of discussion include emergency response, attacks on healthcare, displacement, maternal and newborn health, mental health, innovation and locally led humanitarian action. These subjects connect immediate clinical needs with the longer-term task of strengthening health systems in communities facing crisis. The emphasis is on shared experience and partnerships rather than a single clinical subspecialty.
The published speaker list includes Kenneth Roth, Jeremy Konyndyk, Rabih Torbay, Leonard Rubenstein, Annie Sparrow, Steve Weine, John Kahler, Feroze Sidhwa, Toni Biskup and Zaher Sahloul. Verified institutional biographies identify expertise spanning human rights, refugee protection, humanitarian response, public health, psychiatry and clinical care. These contributors reflect the meeting’s intention to bring health professionals into conversation with advocates and organisations working across the wider humanitarian landscape.
An evening gala follows on 17 October, providing a separate setting for supporters and colleagues to connect around MedGlobal’s work. The official announcement states that 11.5 CME credits are available, but does not identify the accrediting body in the reviewed material. This is recorded as an organiser statement rather than a verified local accreditation award; no SCFHS claim is made.
A detailed timed scientific program, workshop timetable, abstract call, ticket price and named sponsor roster were not published on the supplied announcement page. Speaker affiliations in this listing come from official biographies where verified; missing credentials or personal LinkedIn profiles have not been guessed. The conference is filed under Public Health because its core subject is global and humanitarian health, while the gala is clearly identified as the associated evening activity rather than a separate medical education course.
