We invite submissions for the workshop: “Informatics for the Planet: Integrating Species, Ecosystems and Geophysical Data to Manage the Health of Earth Systems”.
Biomedical and health informatics (BMHI) has traditionally focused on human-centric clinical data, electronic health records (EHRs), and health information systems to support individual patient care, clinical decision-making, and health system workflows. However, contemporary health crises driven by climate change, environmental degradation, and ecological disruption demand an expanded informatics paradigm that bridges clinical systems with planetary ecosystems: Planetary Health Informatics (PHI). This workshop explores informatics research that links clinical, public health, and multispecies data streams into actionable planetary-scale learning health systems.
It will feature one 90-minute workshop to (i) introduce concepts of PHI, (ii) convene a PHI panel, primarily composed of high-quality oral short presentations of 5-7 minutes each for the themes below (these are concurrently identified for JMIR Medical Informatics new section “Planetary Health Informatics”), (ii) receive high quality oral presentations for the themes below (that are concurrently invited to be submitted of manuscripts to JMIR Medical Informatics new section “Planetary Health Informatics”) and (iii) a final roundtable ‘future roadmap’ session that itself could result in a publication.
We welcome DPH attendees interested in learning more about PHI, and we also seek four speakers interested in advancing methodological, technical, and/or architectural foundations of digital public health to address planetary health challenges.
Click here for full information on the workshop.
!! Deadlines !!
| Workshop Call for Papers (CFP) – Submission deadline | 23 December 2026 |
| Workshop Call for Papers (CFP) – Notification deadline | 28 January 2027 |
| Camera-ready deadline | 7 April 2027 |
Themes of interest
Speaker abstracts should ideally emphasize informatics applications, frameworks and/ or evaluations across the following areas:
- Clinical-Environmental Data Integration and Interoperability;
- Surveillance, Biosecurity, and Metagenomic Informatics;
- Sustainable Health Systems and Green Digital Health;
- Patient-Clinician Interactions and Sociotechnical Evaluations.
Submission guidelines
We encourage interested author(s) to submit an extended abstract. The author(s) of an accepted paper/ abstract, which is presented in-person at DPH 2027 in London, will be included in the conference proceedings – extended abstracts will be included in Frontiers proceedings, and full papers will be submitted for possible inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
For submitting an Extended Abstract, please follow the instructions:
- Please format your submission using Times New Roman, 12 pt font size, with justified alignment. The submission must not exceed 1000 words, excluding the reference list. References are compulsory and should be included in the submission. A maximum of two figures or tables may be included.
- Extended Abstracts could follow the standard structure: Introduction, Background, Methods / Datasets, Results, and Conclusion. Alternatively, computer science and engineering abstracts can follow alternative structure such as Introduction, Background, Framework / Architecture, Implementation, Results (if available), Novelty and Challenges and Conclusion.
- Submissions must be anonymised: the names and affiliations removed, and any references to previous works either substituted with “anonymised” or rephrased.
- All submissions must be submitted in PDF format using the Easychair submission system. Click on the submission button below and choose the “DPH2027 Workshop – Informatics for the Planet” track.
- Paste your first section (Aims/Abstract/Overview) to the Abstract field in the Easychair system for ease of processing and review allocation.
NOTE that:
- Abstract submissions will be reviewed by two-three reviewers from the PC and SPC committees and assessed in terms of their quality, relevance to the conference, originality, significance, correctness, and clarity.
- Accepted Extended Abstracts will have to incorporate reviewers’ comments and re-submit their abstract by the Camera-ready deadline. Instructions will be provided.
- An accepted abstract may be selected for either oral or poster presentation depending on review score and topic specificity.
All submissions will be subject to peer review by the workshop’s Programme Committee.
The speakers of an accepted abstract will be invited to present at the Workshop panel session (see Workshop programme).
Contact
All questions about the Workshop should be emailed to:
- Kenneth Winkel, MBBS, Ph.D. – kdw@unimelb.edu.au
- Ann Borda, Ph.D. – aborda@unimelb.edu.au
General conference enquiries: support@dphconf.org.
SUBMISSION
Submission is via EasyChair.