PhD & MSc

This session will be held as part of the DPH2026 conference at the UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Barcelona.

Date: Tuesday, 23th June 2026
Location: Room C0.6, Building C, Ground Floor, UOC (Rambla del Poblenou, 154).

List of accepted abstracts from the PhD & MSc Student Track, which will be presented in-person at the conference:

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.
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.)
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.
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)
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.)
Who Deploys It and How: Organisational Context and Public Trust in Health AI
Brian Boyle (University of London, United Kingdom)