We are pleased to offer you a broad range of options for showcasing your work at DPH 2026!
Conference Aim
Relaunched in 2025, the International Digital Public Health Conference series (DPH) is a world leading annual interdisciplinary event on research and innovation in digital public health.
Since its establishment in 2008, DPH has become a well known venue presenting cutting edge interdisciplinary research and innovation driven by real world needs, aiming to improve public health through the application of novel technology at the individual, community and global levels. Unique in bringing together audiences from Public Health, Computer & Data Science, AI, MedTec, and stakeholders including the WHO, industry, startups and NGOs, DPH enables cross-fertilization of research and innovation in digital public health, offering unique knowledge exchange and fantastic networking opportunities.
DPH is hosted by the UCL Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies (dPHE).
DPH 2026 themes
The themes include but are not restricted to:
Disease Surveillance, Early Warning and Pandemic Preparedness
- Models and tools for Early Warning and Response to outbreaks
- Harnessing Big Data and Mobile Technology for Pandemics Preparedness and Response
- Digital One Health and Vector-borne Diseases Surveillance
- Disease Modelling and Digital Disease Detection
- Epidemic Intelligence
- Digital public health tools for disasters and emergencies
- Citizens science, participatory surveillance and crowdsourcing
- Impact of Climate Change on public health
Artificial Intelligence in Public Health
- Machine Learning and Gen-AI in Public Health
- Responsible AI in health
- LLMs and Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) LLMs for public health
- Ethical challenges of AI in public health
- Reasoning Language Models (RLM) for health
- Statistical and ML approaches for recommender systems and personalisation
- Multi agents Systems
- Uncertainty and bias in AI systems for public health
Digital Technology for Training and Behaviour Change
- Mobile Apps and Serious Games for health Behaviour Change
- Serious Games and Digital Storytelling
- Persuasive Technology and Decision Support Tools
- Digital Health Literacy and Misinformation
- Digital Behaviour Change interventions
- Data analytics for knowledge, attitude and behaviour change
Emerging Technology and Public Health
- Internet of Things and environmental monitoring
- Wearable and Tracking Devices
- MedTech Diagnostics
- Quantum computing and public health
- VR simulation and training for public health
- Genomics and point of care diagnostics
- 3D printing
- Contact tracing
Digital Systems and Public Health Data Governance
- Public Health Data Governance, Access and Equity
- Technology support of essential public health operations (EPHO)
- Digitalisation and interoperability of public health systems
- Ontologies and Semantic Web for Public Health Systems
- Global health security and risk perceptions
- Privacy and cybersecurity in healthcare
Public Health Challenges
- Antibiotic resistance – digital surveillance, stewardship and diagnostics
- Public health education and risk communication
- Misinformation and social media in public health
- Infection prevention and control
- Digital Technology Improving Vaccination and Vaccine Hesitancy
- Non-communicable diseases and tracking devices for self-management
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. You are invited to submit your work to one of our three conference tracks:
- Main Track – Accepts Full Papers (4-8 pages) and Extended Abstracts (up to 1000 words) presenting mature, original research and innovation in digital public health.
- PhD/MSc Student Track – A dedicated forum for postgraduate students to share ongoing research, including progress reports, as well as long or short research papers.
- Posters & Demos Track – Designed for visual presentations of current projects, preliminary results, or innovative concepts, showcasing ongoing or planned work.
Authors are strongly encouraged to register early on the EasyChair submission system and begin preparing their submissions well in advance of the deadline. Please refer to the timeline table on the right for key dates.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: support@dphconf.org