The theme of the conference is: “Family Medicine Strengthens PHC – Creating Opportunities from Adversity”

As we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, our primary care health systems need significant strengthening. Those health systems led by family physicians are bouncing back better and stronger, and more committed to serving vulnerable populations.  With this in mind, we plan to focus on the following sub-themes during the congress:

• Strengthening comprehensive primary healthcare from the perspectives of person-centred and population health for all contexts – disease surveillance, health promotion and preventative services, as well as rehabilitative and palliative care.
• Sustainable quality improvement, to strengthening PHC, reducing risk and improving clinical outcomes.
• The economics of PHC – optimising financial, intellectual, and social capital
• The people of PHC: capacity building, interdisciplinarity, teamwork and resilience
• Embracing digital solutions, health entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to augment the provision of high-quality PHC.

The conference will provide sessions on clinical topics, talks by invited speakers, presentations of original research, discussions on ethics and poster presentations.