NSHPCA Conference
On May 8, 2025, professionals, researchers, and community leaders came together for the NSHPCA 2025 Conference at the Halifax Tower Hotel & Conference Centre to explore this year’s theme: Cultural Implications of Death, Dying, and Grief.
This powerful hybrid event opened with an Indigenous welcome and featured deep, thought-provoking conversations on topics such as cultural safety in palliative care, racism as a public health crisis, intercultural competence, and grief within 2SLGBTQIA+ and African Nova Scotian communities. The event reinforced the importance of culturally sensitive care and created space for learning, reflection, and connection.
A full conference summary is now available and offers highlights from keynote speakers, workshop insights, and key takeaways:
Read the 2025 Conference Summary here.
We’re already planning for NSHPCA Conference 2026, and we look forward to continuing these vital conversations with even greater impact.
NSHPCA is situated in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Acknowledging the Mi’kmaq ancestral territory is our way of showing respect for and honouring our shared Treaty relationship. To uphold our duties and responsibilities as treaty people, we at NSHPCA are committed to building relationships with Indigenous organizations and peoples in Kjipuktuk.
We also recognize that Nova Scotia is home to over 50 African Nova Scotian communities, whose culture, heritage, and histories have been and remain an important part of this province for hundreds of years. As an organization that is guided by compassion, we will listen to and learn from the Black Nova Scotian communities.