We invite students currently enrolled in Doctorate or Masters programms to participate in the Students Track – a space for practicing communicating your ideas, connecting with other students, and receiving valuable feedback from the senior members of the DPH community. To participate, the students can either submit an extended abstract about their work, or if they are already planning on submitting a full paper, they can indicate in the submission form that they would like to participate in the Students Track. The abstracts could contain work in progress reports, thesis / project proposals and early research concepts.
DPH 2026 themes
The themes include but are not restricted to:
- Disease Surveillance, Early Warning and Pandemic Preparedness
- Artificial Intelligence in Public Health
- Digital Technology for Training and Behaviour Change
- Emerging Technology and Public Health
- Digital Systems and Public Health Data Governance
- Public Health Challenges
See Call for Papers and Prizes for a full list.
Submission Guidelines
- Please format your submission using Times New Roman, 12 pt font size, and Justified alignment. The total length should not exceed 1000 words (excluding references), and you may include a maximum of two figures or tables.
- Extended Abstracts could follow the standard structure: Aims/Abstract/Overview, Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions. Alternatively, computer science abstracts can follow a freer headings structure.
- You will indicate the word count in a field in Easychair.
- All submissions must be submitted in PDF format using the Easychair submission system (see link below).
- Students have the option to opt out of the Abstract Book, should they wish so, while being accepted to the session. Please tick the box when submitting your Abstract.
- Paste your first section (Aims/Abstract/Overview) to the Abstract field in the Easychair system for ease of processing and review allocation.
- Students in more advanced and mature stages of their research projects are invited to submit to the Main Track and also benefit from the opportunity to present their work in the PhD/MSc Student track (Day 0 of the conference) to practise their talk and receive mentoring advice prior to their potential presentation in the Main Track. Please tick the box to express your interest to be included in the PhD/MSc Track when submitting your Main Track paper.
If you choose your submission to be published in the Abstract Book:
- Accepted Extended abstracts will have to incorporate reviewers’ comments and re-submit their abstract by the Camera Ready deadline. Instructions will be provided.
PhD/MSc Track submissions will be reviewed by two reviewers from the PC and SPC committee.
The use of Generative AI tools is permissible but must be disclosed and the Scientific Committee reserves the right to exclude any abstract that is generated solely by AI tools.
Note that at least one author of all accepted papers from all tracks must register for the conference and attend in person to present their papers or posters.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: support@dphconf.org
Submission
Submission is via EasyChair.