[Comment] The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings

American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At a time of unprecedented nationalist and far-right politics in some countries, many people working in global health increasingly encounter an unsafe environment for meetings and conferences, especially those who are considered as others, such as citizens of the Global South, immigrants, refugees and Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and racialised minorities.