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
You are invited to submit your work to one of our three conference tracks:
Main track
there are two publication options for the Main track
- Full papers published by IEEE DPH 2025 Proceedings (up to 8 pages)
- Extended Abstracts published by Frontiers Digital Public Health journal, DPH 2025 Abstract Book (up to 1000 words)
Main Track submissions will be reviewed by three reviewers from the PC and SPC committees and assessed in terms of their quality, relevance to the conference, originality, significance, correctness, and clarity
Instructions for students submitting to the Main track
- include your student status (MSc/PhD/all levels) by ticking the box on the submission form to be considered for the Best Student Award
- students submitting to the Main track are encouraged to tick the box to be also included in the PhD/MSc Track (Day 1) to practice their talk among students and receive a mentoring advice, before presenting in the Main track conference (Day 2 and 3) if accepted
- should you work be less mature, concept or early stage please submit to the PhD/MSc Student track and/or Poster Track
PhD/MSc Students track
Dedicated track for postgraduate students welcoming work in progress reports, thesis / project proposals and early research concepts – offering a supportive environment for oral presentations with mentoring advice.
- FORMAT: Extended abstracts published by Frontiers Digital Public Health journal, DPH 2025 Abstract Book (up to 1000 words).
- Students have the option to out out from the Abstract Book, should they wish so, while being accepted to the session. Please tick the box when submitting your Abstract
- 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 1 of the conference) to practice their talk and receive mentoring advice prior to their potential presentation in the Main track (Day 2 and 3 of the conference). Please tick the box to express your interest to be included in the PhD/MSc Track when submitting your Main track paper.
PhD/MSc Track submissions will be reviewed by two reviewers from the PC and SPC committees
Posters and Demos track
Visual presentations of current or planned work
- FORMAT: Extended abstracts published by Frontiers Digital Public Health journal, DPH 2025 Abstract Book (up to 1000 words)
- please tick the box to indicate if your submission is a Poster or Demo
Poster and Demo Track submissions will be reviewed by two reviewers from the PC and SPC committees
Publication – instructions for all Tracks
DPH 2025 proceedings will be published in two proceedings:
Full Papers (Main Track only)
Full papers will be published by IEEE DPH 2025 Proceeding
- All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
- Long papers published by IEEE Proceedings (papers must range between 4‑8 pages)
- Papers should conform to the IEEE double column format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
- An accepted full paper may be selected for either oral or poster presentation depending on review score and topic specificity
- Accepted paper will have their own DOI
- All submission must use the Easychair submission system
- All submissions must be submitted in PDF format
- Paste your Abstract in the Abstract field in the Easychair system for ease of processing and review allocation
- Abstract deadline is a week before the full paper deadline until when the submission could be changed, edited and re-uploaded. This is to streamline the review process and allocation of reviewers. Your abstract will not be reviewed before the full paper deadline is closed.
- Accepted full papers will have to incorporate reviewers’ comments and re-submit their paper by the Camera Ready deadline to IEEE. Instructions will be provided.
Extended Abstracts (All Tracks)
- Abstract Book from all Tracks will be published in Frontiers Digital Public Health Journal: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/sections/digital-public-health/about
- There is no specific formatting required except using 12pt font size and maximum wordcount is 1000
- Extended Abstracts could follow the standard structure: Aims/Abstract/Overview, Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions. Alternatively, computer science abstracts can follow a freerer headings structure as far as the total word count does not exceed 1000.
- You must indicate the wordcount in the Easychair field
- An accepted full paper may be selected for either oral or poster presentation depending on review score and topic specificity.
- Accepted abstracts will have their own DOI
- All submission must use the Easychair submission system
- All submissions must be submitted in PDF format
- Paste your first section (Aims/Abstract/Overview) to the Abstract field in Easychair system for ease of processing and review allocation
- Abstract deadline is a week before the full paper deadline until when the submission could be changed, edited and re-uploaded. This is to streamline the review process and allocation of reviewers. Your abstract will not be reviewed before the full paper deadline is closed.
- Accepted Extended abstracts will have to incorporate reviewers’ comments and re-submit their abstract by the Camera Ready deadline to Frontiers. Instructions will be provided.
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 at the full rate and attend in person to present their papers. For teams of co-authors submitting multiple papers, a different author must register for each accepted submission.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: irdr.digihealthconf@ucl.ac.uk
Submission
Submission is via EasyChair.