In this engaging and wide-ranging conversation, the evolving role of the pathology workforce in global healthcare is explored. Drawing on perspectives from the WHO, Jim Campbell offers insights into how member states are advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a focus on strengthening the pathology workforce, fostering innovation and expanding opportunities across the sector.

Jun Professor Dr Roman David Bülow, Institute for Pathology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Germany discusses, the rapid integration of AI into pathology is transforming diagnostic workflows and training, requiring educators to prepare trainees for an AI-augmented future while preserving essential human judgment. Exploring the evolving landscape of AI education in medicine, with particular focus on pathology's unique challenges and opportunities.

Dr Thinn Hlaing, Consultant Chemical Pathologist & Country Director Myanmar, Global Health Partnership the talk highlights how the strength of any healthcare system begins with its diagnostic capacity yet, around the world ho many countries continue to face a critical shortage of trained pathology professionals. This talk celebrates a partnership between pathology teams in Myanmar and a UK NHS institution, united by a shared vision to bridge this gap through collaboration, technology and mutual learning.

Dr Shahin Sayed, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, Kenya discusses how at current training rates, it is estimated that countries in East, Central and Southern Africa would need more than 400 years to reach the pathologist-to-population ratios currently achieved in high-income countries. The establishment of the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA) aims to address this shortfall through the harmonisation of postgraduate curricula, accreditation and examinations across the region.

John Weldon, Director of Clinical AI at Deciphex, New York, discusses how computational pathology is moving beyond single-modality analysis toward multimodal and conversational AI systems. By integrating histology with clinical and molecular data, and enabling natural language interaction with complex cases, these approaches not only promise more personalised and accessible decision support, but also greater efficiency This talk highlights key innovations and emphasise the vital role of pathologists in guiding their safe and effective adoption.

This panel discussion explores the multifaceted challenges facing the global pathology workforce, the current workforce situation and why we are here, and the future and what we can do. The discussion will focus on the similarities, differences and difficulties experienced by low- and middle-income countries as well as high-income countries.

Amy Johnson, Workforce and Engagement Manager, the Royal College of Pathologists, this presentation will highlight the Workforce Strategy, its phased approach and the progress achieved so far toward building a well-supported pathology workforce capable of meeting current and future demands.

The keynote talk at our virtual conference for International Pathology Day in 2024 saw Professor Dame Sally Davies, UK’s Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance in conversation with Dr Noha Elsakka OBE, Vice President for Communication

The second talk at our virtual conference for International Pathology Day in 2024, delivered by Professor Angharad Davies RCPath Clinical Director of Publishing and Engagement.

The third talk to at our virtual conference for International Pathology Day in 2024 delivered by Professor Clare Chandler, Medical Anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The fourth talk at our virtual conference International Pathology Day 2024, delivered by Dr Wael F Elamin MBBS, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, Medical Director, M42, Abu Dhabi, UAE

The fifth talk at our virtual conference for International Pathology Day in 2024 delivered by Dr Justin Loke CRUK/AACR Transatlantic Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA

The roundtable discussion, chaired by College President Dr Bernie Croal, focused on global perspectives on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) drawing inspiration from the six-part webinar series hosted by the International Team last summer. Professor Samuel Taiwo, Professor and Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Nigeria, Professor Margaret IP Chairman and Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Daniel Thirion Full Clinical Professor, Pharmacist, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada and Mc

The lunchtime session at our virtual conference for International Pathology Day in 2024 was co-presented by Dr Natasha Ratnaraja, Chair of the Medical Microbiology and Medical Virology Specialty Advisory Committee, RCPath, Consultant in Infection, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire and Danny Scarsbrook, College Policy Officer.

This presentation demonstrates how climate change intersects with a range of other health threats with significant potential to generate and compound complex health security

This session comprehensively examined the tangible impact of climate change on the geographical distribution of dengue fever. With a focus on empirical evidence and epidemiological data.

The focus of this session was on the impact of climate change caused by global warming, its effect on the prevalence of diseases in tropical climates and the resulting challenges for blood transfusion services.

This talk explores how sustainability is the balance between the environment and the economy. Our changing climate has severe implications for public and planetary health and how as healthcare professionals, we have a responsibility to consider the way we practise and try to reduce any negative impacts of our practice.

The roundtable focuses on the topic of planetary health and what can be done to encourage evidence-based environmentally sustainable policies to promote human health, wellbeing and prosperity. The discussion explored food security and nutrition risks, antimicrobial resistance and the challenges posed by the climate change for world populations.

This presentation explains more about the College’s strategy to reduce carbon use across our operations, which will eventually lead to achieving net zero.

Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, engages in a dialogue on the importance of pathologists in outbreak response, including management of Ebola virus disease, COVID-19 and monkeypox. He will also discuss areas where further research, development and collaboration is needed.

India is diverse in culture and heritage as well as the facilities there are for diagnosing infectious diseases. Patients in the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic have been administered high doses of steroids and other immunosuppressive agents. This increases immunosuppression in the patient and the propensity to suffer from secondary infections, Dr Ranganathan N Iyer presents data from Indian centres who have experience in dealing with the diagnosis and outcome analysis of secondary bacterial and fungal infections in COVID-19 patients.

Mr Richard Skone-James and Dr Jean O’Driscoll deliver an inspiring talk about the vision The Tropical Heath Education Trust (THET) has of a world where everyone has access to healthcare. They achieve this by training and educating health workers in Africa and Asia, working in partnership with organisations and volunteers from across the UK. Highlighting some of the projects they have worked on over the last year, including a collaboration with the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ghana also supported RCPath's International Team.

Mr Russell Dacombe discusses some of the issues affecting laboratory diagnosis and surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in lower-middle-income countries. Focusing on how laboratories are critical to efforts to tackle global health challenges including antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Without accurate and timely data from laboratories the scale of AMR within populations is impossible to quantify. However basic bacteriology has been neglected in many LMIC settings owing to a focus on other important issues such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV.

The roundtable discussion revisits the College’s international work and projects, both past and present, that have successfully built capacity in laboratories, assisted with continued professional development and improved quality assurance systems. This includes prior to the establishment of the College’s International team. Looking to the future, College fellows who have made a significant contribution to the international activities of the College will also consider how the College and the global pathology community will need to evolve to meet the ever-changing needs.

This talk discusses the findings of The Lancet Commission on Diagnostics. This major work of a global multidisciplinary team of twenty-five commissioners from 16 countries were commissioned to examine the shared challenges of pathology and laboratory medicine (PALM) and digital imaging (DI) services.

Starting at the title of this talk Dr Tbakhi, gets us in deep in thought, about how ways of working and the environment in which a healthcare professional will operate in years to come is likely to be.

Professor Nasir Rajpoot Professor of Computational Pathology at the Computer Science department of the University of Warwick presents the work of his PHD students, which is an intriguing exploration, into how with an increasing number of NHS pathology labs being digitised in the UK, there is an explosion in the amount of pathology image data with linked clinical outcomes.

The roundtable panel discuss the need to leverage the power of digital pathology to establish practical solutions that will positively impact global health for everyone.

Associate Professor Clare Verrill and guest Dr Yuchun Ding, founder of X-WOW, discuss how X-WOW began its mission, the importance of education and raising public awareness about the essential role of pathology in healthcare services.

Professor Jo Martin shows how technology will be used to enhance learning and how the platform aims to incorporate the ability to host and view whole slide imaging (WSI) over the world wide web (virtual microscopy) to enable pathology tissue samples to be annotated and viewed as part of learning sets, mapped to the relevant curricula of the College, and hosted and maintained within the system.