2026 Annual National Summit
Proactive Health in Action
We can’t afford to keep waiting until people get sick before taking health seriously.
The Annual Canadian Health and Fitness Summit unites communities, leaders, and organisations to help Canada shift from reactive to proactive health.
A Gathering for People Who Want Practical Progress
If you care about prevention, movement, wellbeing, and healthier communities, this Summit is designed to help turn shared concern into meaningful action.
Over two days in Ottawa, the Canadian Health and Fitness Institute will convene a cross-sector group of public leaders, community organisations, researchers, youth voices, national partners, and corporate leaders to explore what works, what scales, and what Canada can implement now.
This is not a political rally; it’s a non-partisan forum for content, dialogue, relationship-building, and practical follow-through.
Canada’s health challenges aren’t just clinical. They’re cultural, structural, and deeply practical.
Many Canadians are moving too little, sitting too much, and living in environments that make healthy choices harder than they should be. Too often, we respond after health declines instead of building systems, communities, and habits that help people stay well longer. The result is growing pressure on individuals, families, communities, and the health system.
It shouldn’t be this hard to build a healthier Canada.
What You Can Expect From The Summit
The CHFI Summit exists to move the health conversation forward in a practical way:
Explore real-world case studies in prevention and proactive health
Learn from leaders working across the community, research, youth, corporate, and public sectors
Build relationships that can lead to stronger collaboration and future partnerships
Surface ideas and models that communities and institutions can actually implement
Help shape the next chapter of Let’s Move Canada and CHFI’s national priorities
Program themes:
The next generation, movement, and mental well-being
Healthier communities where people live, learn, work, and play
Prevention as a sustainability strategy
Translating evidence into implementation
This Summit isn’t just about discussing what’s wrong. It’s about finding what works, strengthening the relationships needed to move it forward, and helping build a healthier, more proactive future for Canada.
What You Can Do
Canada’s health won’t change on its own. For our loved ones and communities to become healthier, happier, and more resilient, we need to take a proactive approach to active living.
In-person attendance for the Summit is invitation-only. However, CHFI will make the discussion’s highlights and its results available shortly afterwards for you to view, share, and act on in your community.
Here are simple steps you can take to help translate the Summit’s results into active living in your community:
1. Support Proactive Health
Sponsor the Summit or donate to CHFI to strengthen Canada’s active living initiative.
2. Stay Connected
Receive updates on the Summit and more ways to get involved.
3. Move More, Live Better, and Thrive
Join your community in getting active and staying active.
Be Part of What Comes Next
The future of Canada’s health will change because leaders, communities, practitioners, and partners decide to build something better together.
Your support helps make the healthy choice the easy choice in your community.