This session will be held as part of the DPH2026 conference at the UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Barcelona.
Date: Tuesday, 23th June 2026
Preliminary list of accepted submissions from the PhD & MSc Student Track (subject to author registration and participation in the final conference programme):
| Adaptive by Design: Adaptive Participatory Design for Sustainable AI-Enabled Software Systems in Contexts of Variable Human Capacity Päivi T. Salminen (University of Sevilla, Spain) et al. |
| Advancing Gender Equity in Digital Health: Global Policy and Practice Recommendations Mariana Zamir (School of Public Health, Gray Faculty of Medical @ Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel) & Alvit Wolf (Rapaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Israel) |
| Agentic AI for Continuous Monitoring of Autoimmune Diseases: Toward Personalized Digital Public Health Tayyaba Khalil (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) |
| Anticipatory Policy: Governance of Population Biobanks in the Baltic States Aiga Balode (Riga Stradins University, Latvia) |
| Benchmark of Transformers models for Epidemic Forecasting Douhan Wang (School of Mathematical Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom) & Nicola Perra (School of Mathematical Science, Queen Mary University of London; The Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom) |
| Comparing the Relationship Between High and Low Tobacco Control Policies and Public Engagement with Smoking Cessation Support. Aisling Marken (University College London; Smoke Free, United Kingdom), Jamie Brown (University College London, United Kingdom) & Sharon Cox (ibid.) |
| Effectiveness of Health Belief Model (HBM) Based Educational Intervention on Breast Self-Examination: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Lahore, Pakistan Shamaila Hassnain (FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry, Pakistan) & Amna Hassnain (Central Park Medical College (CPMC), Pakistan) |
| Evaluation of Augmented Reality Applications on Smartphones as a Tool for Enhancing Anatomical Knowledge Among Medical Students In Pakistan Shamaila Hassnain (FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry, Pakistan) & Amna Hassnain (Central Park Medical College (CPMC), Pakistan) |
| From Pilot to Policy: Evaluating a hybrid-online PrEP service to inform digital care pathways in sexual and reproductive health. Adam Shanley (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) et al. |
| HEX Vanguards: Hybrid Sport-Digital Ecosystems, Gamification, and Resilience Against Youth Discrimination Shaun Small (Ascendium Group, Sweden) |
| Improving Preexposure Prophylaxis Using Machine Learning Based Predictive Modeling in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Fanuel Alemayehu Tefera (Addis Ababa University, Spain) & Mahlet Leul Berhe (Mekele University, Ethiopia) |
| Level of Digital Health Literacy among Academics: a synthesis of evidence Ana Carolina de Faria Silva Guimarães (University of Brasília, Brasil) et al. |
| Level Up Adherence: Gamified Digital Health App CareAide® Boosts Clinical, Economic and Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Chronic Disease Management Mohd Syamir Mohamad Shukeri (University of Malaya, Malaysia) et al. |
| Lifestyle Reconfiguration Under Public Health Restrictions: Structural Evidence from Early COVID-19 Survey Data Qiqi Su (London, United Kingdom) |
| Personalized Sleep Bruxism Management Through Phenotyping: A Pilot Study of WhatsApp-Delivered Behavioral Coaching Wissal Nada Sengouga (University of Naples Federico II, Algeria) |
| Physical Activity Interventions for Mental Health in Menopausal Women: A Systematic Review (2015–2025) Melissa Gan (University College London, United Kingdom) |
| Registry-Based Determinants and Classification of Early-Onset Breast Cancer: A Comparative Analysis of Epidemiologic and Machine Learning Models Hamad Abouelhassan (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Kuwait University, Kuwait) et al. |
| Translation and Validation of the Digital Working Alliance Inventory (DWAI) into German using conventional and AI-supported translation procedures Anna Katharina Tietjen (Complementary and Integrative Digital Health, Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich, Switzerland) et al. |
| Understanding participants’ skin health journey through a diversity lens: a patient-led study Nazma Khatun (Brunel University London, United Kingdom), Gabriella Spinelli (ibid.) & Federico Colecchia (ibid.) |
| Use of Humanitarian Technologies in the Health Clusters in Conflict- affected Settings: A systematic review of Barriers and Enablers Nay Lin Tun (University College London, United Kingdom), Eleanor Joan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) & Nay Lin Tun (University College London, Myanmar) |
| Who Deploys It and How: Organisational Context and Public Trust in Health AI Brian Boyle (University of London, United Kingdom) |