International Medical Geography Symposium

🏨 Have you secured your accommodation for IMGS 2026 yet?
Enjoy discounted accommodation options at the Holiday Inn and the Toronto Metropolitan University residences using the group code IMGS2026.
📅 Note: the special rate at the Holiday Inn Toronto Downtown Centre is only available until May 9th, and the cutoff date for booking a residence room at TMU is May 12th.
Explore your options and book your stay here:
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The deadline for IMGS 2026 abstract submissions and field trip registrations is March 31st 11:59 pm (Toronto time). We look forward to your contributions and participation. For registration or to submit your abstract, visit the website: https://event.fourwaves.com/2026imgs/pages

Only 7 days left to submit your abstract for the IMGS 2026 Conference!
We have a range of exciting special paper sessions for you to consider.
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⏳ 3 Weeks to Go!

Abstract submissions for the IMGS 2026 Conference are open. We invite submissions for both oral and poster presentations.

To submit:

1️⃣ Register for the conference

2️⃣ Identify a Special Session that aligns with your research

3️⃣ Submit your abstract

We look forward to receiving your abstract and learning more about your research.

🏨 Discounted accommodation options are available for conference participants at the Holiday Inn Downtown Toronto and through Residences at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Take advantage of the special conference rates and book early to secure your stay here: https://event.fourwaves.com/2026imgs/pages/5a1125e9-6b2a-47d7-93ac-29dc37602e9d

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
Great news! The abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 31st!
There’s still time to share your research, showcase your work, and join insightful conversations shaping the field of medical geography. We welcome submissions for both oral and poster presentations.
Don’t miss this opportunity. Submit your abstract by March 31st!

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⏳ Two Weeks to Go - The countdown is on!
The deadline for abstract submissions is March 15th. We welcome both oral and poster presentations. This is your opportunity to share your research, connect with global scholars in medical geography, and contribute to critical conversations shaping the field.
🔗 Explore special sessions and submit your abstract here:
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Abstract Submissions Are Open!
The International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) 2026 invites you to share your latest research and join a global community advancing medical and health geography.
Both oral presentations and poster submissions are welcome.
🗓 Deadline: March 15th
🔗 Submit your abstract here: https://event.fourwaves.com/2026imgs/pages/

📣 Abstract Submissions Are Open!
Do you have research, ideas, or innovative work to share? This is your opportunity to showcase your scholarship, connect with peers, and contribute to meaningful dialogue.
🗓 Mark your calendar: Submission deadline is March 15th.

Submit your abstract today and be part of the conversation shaping the future.

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Here are the final two Special Session features!

12) (Un)healthy infrastructures: Embodiment, care and the complex politics of postcolonial health
- This session invites papers that rethink health infrastructures beyond clinics and hospitals to include fragile, informal, and embodied systems of care—such as mobility, housing, welfare, and “shadow care infrastructures”—that shape survival, repair, and abandonment. The organisers welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions, particularly from postcolonial, feminist, and decolonial perspectives, that examine how these infrastructures are produced, maintained, and unevenly distributed across racialised, gendered, and classed lines.

13) Researching Distress: Geographical Engagements within - and beyond - Treatment Gaps
- This session invites papers that critically engage with Global Mental Health by questioning dominant, metrics-driven framings of distress and the politics of whose suffering becomes visible. The organisers welcome geographical, theoretical, and creative contributions that explore alternative epistemologies of care, foreground postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, and reimagine how distress, care, and repair are understood across places and scales.

To explore the full list, session themes, and details, visit the website: https://event.fourwaves.com/2026imgs/pages/c37af4e2-2f00-4d01-bbdd-fe2ae70380b8

⏰ Reminder: Abstract submissions are due on 15 March 2026.

Special Session Series

Discover three featured sessions in our special session lineup below.

9) Necropolitical geographies: spaces of abandonment and survival

– This session invites papers from the Global North and Global South that examine the spatial politics of life, death, and decision-making through necropolitical lenses. Contributions may be theoretical, empirical, or methodological, addressing abandonment, withdrawal of care, weaponized nature, and practices of survival, resistance, and ethical research

10) Uncovering Trace within Geographies of Health and Wellbeing

- This session explores “trace” as a conceptual and methodological lens in geographies of health and wellbeing, connecting relational theories, place-based inequalities, mobilities, and lifecourse perspectives. We invite qualitative and critical work that examines how traces are made, erased, or contested across places—balancing salutogenic and pathogenic processes and reflecting on the value of “trace” as a conceptual tool for addressing complex societal challenges.

11) By Youth, With Youth, or For Youth? Creative Participatory Methods in Health Geography

- This session invites submissions of papers documenting experiences of conducting research with youth and young adults using creative participatory methods. Deadline for submissions for this session: February 20th 2026.

Learn more and explore the full details on the website: https://event.fourwaves.com/2026imgs/pages/c37af4e2-2f00-4d01-bbdd-fe2ae70380b8

✨ IMGS Special Session Series
Explore three exciting special sessions featured below, each addressing timely and thought-provoking themes. For full details, visit the website: https://event.fourwaves.com/2026imgs/pages/c37af4e2-2f00-4d01-bbdd-fe2ae70380b8

6) “Science, interrupted”
- This session invites participants to reflect on what it means to protect scientific integrity, academic freedom, and equity-oriented research when science itself becomes a site of political contestation.

7) Graduate Student Research on Environmental Change and Women’s Health
- Presenters will share community-engaged and place-based research on topics such as:
· Climate change and girls’ sport participation
· Environmental toxins and women’s health
· Endocrine-disrupting chemicals in personal care products
· Perceptions of air pollution and environmental exposure

8) Environmental (In)justice: Exploring the health impacts of environmental inequities and potential strategies of resistance
- The organisers invite dialogue on how health geography can contribute to environmental justice scholarship, inform policy and planning, and support efforts to advance more equitable and healthy places.