The CAHH Health Humanities Rounds, launched in January 2026, offer CAHH members access to synchronous, online educational opportunities that bring together scholars, health professionals, educators, artists, learners, and community members working in the health humanities. These interactive rounds create space for shared learning, critical dialogue, and reflection across disciplines.

Upcoming Rounds

Rounds will resume in Fall 2026

Past rounds

May 2026: Breast Cancer in the Academy: Coalitional survivorship for health advocacy - Panel discussion featuring chapter authors

April 2026: Creating Space, CAHH’s annual national conference, was held April 19-21, in Ottawa, and featured four plenary sessions. See the conference program for details.

March 2026: Brooke Holmes (Department of Classics, Princeton University) - The tissue of the world: The nature of ancient sympathy

February 2026: Elamin Abdelmahmoud (author, host of CBC’s Commotion) - The question is the answer: Literary approaches to communication for medicine

January 2026: Shane Neilson (poet, physician, scholar) - You can’t get the news from poems, but you can learn to love the Type 1 diagnostic reasoning that can be found there