We invite contributions to the Main research tracks of DPH 2025. 

DPH 2025 themes 

The themes include but are not restricted to:

Disease Surveillance and Pandemic Preparedness 

• Harnessing  Big Data and Mobile Technology for Pandemics Preparedness and Response 
• Public Health in the Context of Climate Change
• 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 diseases – surveillance, modelling, policy

Digital Technology for Training and Behaviour Change 

• Mobile Apps and Games for 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 
• Statistical and ML approaches for recommender systems and personalisation 

AI and 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 
• ML and Gen-AI in Public Health
• Responsible AI in health
• 3D printing 
• Contact tracing 

Digital Systems and 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 
• 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 – long papers (up to 10 pages), short papers (up to 5 pages), public health abstracts
• PhD/MSc Students track – Dedicated track for postgraduate students welcoming progress reports, long and short research papers 
• Posters and Demos – Visual presentations of current or planned work

Publication 

DPH proceedings will be published as an Abstract Book from all Tracks in Frontiers Digital Public Health Journal (currently being discussed)

Long/short papers from the Main Track and PhD/MSc Track will be published by IEEE (application currently under review).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to: irdr.digihealthconf@ucl.ac.uk

Submission

Submission will be via EasyChair. Link to follow.