The 2026 Annual MOLA Conference, Uniendo Nuestras Voces: Uniting Our Voices — Resilience. Solidarity. Collective Care., is an academic gathering that brings together Hispanic/Latino/a/e/x (LHS+)–identifying and affirming health professionals, educators, researchers, students, and community leaders committed to advancing immigrant health equity. The conference provides interdisciplinary education centered on structural determinants of health, language justice, culturally humble care, and community-rooted models of resilience that strengthen care for LHS+ and immigrant communities.

This year’s convening builds on the continued expansion of the Latino Health Symposium and reflects MOLA’s growing commitment to advancing equity-centered medical education and cross-sector collaboration. Held for the first time at the Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus on October 16–17th, the two-day conference will create space for participants to examine structural forces shaping health disparities, strengthen language-concordant and trauma-informed care practices, and develop partnerships that support long-term systems change for immigrant communities.

Through dialogue, skill-building sessions, and community-centered engagement, the conference highlights resilience not only as an individual trait but as a collective practice grounded in solidarity, multilingualism, cultural identity, and shared responsibility for advancing justice-centered care.