Events

Celebrated annually on 24 July, World Self-Care Day is a global awareness day coordinated by GSCF to highlight the vital role self-care plays in strengthening health systems and empowering individuals. Join organisations, policymakers, and communities around the world in promoting self-care through events, campaigns, and educational activities.

The Annual General Meeting brings together GSCF member organisations to review the Federation's achievements over the past year, approve strategic priorities, elect board members, and set the work programme for the year ahead. This closed meeting is open to representatives of GSCF member associations and manufacturing companies.

Quarterly meeting of the GSCF Regulatory Affairs Committee. Agenda includes updates on global regulatory harmonisation initiatives, self-care classification frameworks, post-market surveillance developments, and advocacy positions on emerging regulatory proposals impacting the self-care industry.

Quarterly meeting of the GSCF Environmental Sustainability Committee, coinciding with Earth Day. Members review progress against the GSCF Charter for Environmentally Sustainable Self-Care, share best practices on packaging reduction, eco-design, and supply chain decarbonisation, and set targets for the next reporting period.

GSCF participates as an official non-state actor in relations with WHO at the annual World Health Assembly. At WHA79, GSCF delivered constituency and individual statements on primary healthcare, maternal and child nutrition, antimicrobial resistance, and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases. This is the premier global health policy gathering of the year.

The annual Geneva Global Self-Care Forum brings together policymakers, industry leaders, healthcare professionals, and civil society to discuss innovations in self-care. The 2026 edition focused on digital health, regulatory harmonisation, environmental sustainability, and the role of self-care in achieving universal health coverage.

GSCF co-hosts this international conference exploring the intersection of self-care and universal health coverage. Sessions will examine evidence-based self-care interventions, health system integration, financing models, and policy frameworks that enable self-care to contribute meaningfully to UHC goals worldwide.

An academic-industry symposium showcasing the latest peer-reviewed research on self-care interventions, economic evaluations, and real-world evidence. The symposium features keynote presentations from leading researchers, panel discussions on evidence-to-policy translation, and workshops on research methodologies for self-care studies.

Bi-annual coordination meeting bringing together the chairs of all GSCF committees — Regulatory Affairs, Environmental Sustainability, Evidence Based Self-Care, Membership, and Communications — to align workstreams, share progress, and coordinate joint advocacy initiatives for the upcoming semester.

GSCF members and partners exhibit at the premier European trade fair for the self-care and over-the-counter (OTC) health products industry. The event features product showcases, regulatory updates, networking sessions, and policy roundtables exploring the future of responsible self-care and consumer health innovation.