Two co-researchers of the CRÉ will soon be participating in a summer school titled “From Individual Health to Global Health: Multiple Perspectives”, which will be held at Université Laval from May 4 to 8, 2026.

This summer school offers an interdisciplinary program combining lectures, seminars, reflective work, and public lectures. It is open to graduate students in philosophy, the humanities, the social sciences, theology, and religious studies, as well as to graduate students in the natural sciences who are interested in the social and conceptual issues in the health sciences.

Provisional schedule:

• Defining Health: Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Department of Philosophy, ULaval)
• The Anthropocene and Global Health, Caroline Laberge (Faculty of Medicine, Québec City University Hospital, ULaval)
• One Health: Promises, Challenges, Limitations, Cécile Aenishaenslin (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UdeM)
• Social Epidemiology and Inequality, Luc Faucher (Department of Philosophy, Director of the Institute for Health and Society, UQAM)
• Public Health, Élodie Giroux (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Lyon III)
• Ecosystem Health: A Scientific Concept? Antoine C. Dussault (Department of Philosophy, Collège Lionel-Groulx)
• Mental Health and Contemporary Discourse, Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (Department of Philosophy, ULaval) and Félix Lebrun-Paré (Quebec National Institute of Public Health)

To register and for more information about the event, click here.

*Please note that this summer school will take place in French.