The Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity will host the Third Symposium on Integration Science on October 27, 2026, from 12 to 5 pm, with a reception to follow. The free symposium will take place at the Joseph B. Martin Center, located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston.
Symposium presenters will explore the potential that integration science—a growing field at the intersection of health-system design, service delivery, and social medicine—has for incubating global health equity strategies, as well as ongoing advancements to the PEN-Plus model, the most advanced application of integration science to date.
PEN-Plus, an integrated care-delivery model, enables low- and lower-middle-income countries to deliver care to people living in extreme poverty with severe, chronic noncommunicable diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, sickle cell disease, and childhood heart disease. Already 29 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean have initiated PEN-Plus, with 16 of them actively implementing the strategy across more than a hundred clinics.
The Center for Integration Science, in partnership with Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique, serves as the co-secretariat for the NCDI Poverty Network, a coalition of health, advocacy, policy, funding, and technical partners from around the world who seek to expand access to care—largely through PEN-Plus—for the world’s most vulnerable people, especially children, adolescents, and young adults whose conditions are life-threatening in the absence of treatment.
More details and a registration link for the symposium will follow.