CLASI
I Conferencia Latinoamericana de Salud Indígena
I Latin American Indigenous Health Conference (LAIHC)
A regional platform to listen, connect, and build culturally relevant health solutions.
- ✓Centered on the health priorities, realities, and voices of Indigenous communities.
- ✓Designed to connect Indigenous leaders, researchers, health professionals, institutions, and civil society organizations.
- ✓Oriented toward recommendations, partnerships, and long-term regional impact.
About CLASI
A project designed to place Indigenous health at the center of the regional agenda.
Strategic objectives
A framework for visibility, collaboration, and impact.
Increase visibility of Indigenous health issues
Highlight key health challenges affecting Indigenous communities, including access barriers, malnutrition, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and structural inequities.
Promote inclusive and culturally sensitive health policies
Encourage policy dialogue that recognizes the specific needs, rights, knowledge systems, and realities of Indigenous peoples.
Strengthen knowledge, research, and evidence
Create a platform to share research, case studies, community experiences, and practical lessons that can inform better public health decisions.
Foster international knowledge exchange
Bring together diverse actors from across the region to exchange ideas, methodologies, experiences, and solutions with lasting potential impact.
Thematic areas
Key topics for a regional conversation on Indigenous health.
The project may be structured around thematic areas that integrate evidence, community experience, traditional knowledge, and institutional action.
Key topics for a regional conversation on Indigenous health.
The project may be structured around thematic areas that integrate evidence, community experience, traditional knowledge, and institutional action.
Access and equity in health
Geographic, economic, linguistic, cultural, and institutional barriers that limit timely access to health services.
Intercultural public policies
Policy approaches and care models that respond to the values, priorities, and needs of Indigenous communities.
Ancestral knowledge and health
Recognition of traditional knowledge, Indigenous medicine, and community-based practices of care and wellbeing.
Participatory research
Research methods that involve communities as active participants in the creation, interpretation, and use of knowledge.
Mental health and community wellbeing
Comprehensive approaches that consider territory, identity, memory, culture, social bonds, and collective resilience.
Regional partnerships
Collaboration among communities, universities, public institutions, NGOs, and international organizations.
Who this project seeks to engage
A space for multiple voices, sectors, and forms of knowledge.
Indigenous leaders and representatives
Community voices that contribute lived experience, territorial knowledge, and real priorities from Indigenous communities.
Public health professionals
Health teams, practitioners, program managers, and technical experts interested in intercultural models of care.
Researchers and academic institutions
Universities, research centers, faculty, and students working on health, territory, culture, equity, and public policy.
Governments and partner organizations
Public institutions, NGOs, cooperation agencies, and civil society organizations interested in contributing to regional impact.