Thank you for attending the 2017 U21 Health Sciences Group Annual Meeting hosted by the University of Johannesburg!

The theme for the 2017 annual meeting was 'Global Health: Challenges, Constraints and Implementation Models'. The meeting featured plenary sessions on the following topics: Global Health, Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health, Mental Health, Women and Children's Health, and HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis.

A one-day Doctoral Student Forum took place on Monday 18 September. On Tuesday 19 September, two workshops on current U21 HSG projects were scheduled: SDG workshop (morning) and Clinical Simulation (afternoon).

• See the final program of the meeting

• See the list of participants

A selection of presentations and reports from this meeting are listed below.

Tuesday 19 September

• Health based on Human Rights and a Sustainable Development perspective - Per-Olof Östergren (Lund University)

Wednesday 20 September

• Constraints to achieve global health - Per-Olof Östergren (Lund University)

• Provost's message to U21 HSG - Bairbre Redmond (Universitas 21)

Thursday 21 September

• U21 Health Sciences Summer School 2017 report - Sibusiso Mdletshe (University of Johannesburg)

• U21 Health Sciences Summer School 2018 overview - Cecilia Lundberg, Susanne Brokop, Martin Stafström (Lund University)

Friday 22 September

• Women's health: gender-based violence - Caroline Bradbury-Jones (University of Birmingham)

• Children's environmental health in South Africa - Angela Mathee (South African Medical Research Council)

• HIV/AIDS and TB in the South African population: lessons learnt and interventions - Geoff Setswe (Independent Public Health Consultant)

• Challenges with managing HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in a society with high levels of inequality - Geoff Setswe (Independent Public Health Consultant)