In the programme below, you can find a full schedule of all sessions held as part of DPH2026
Tuesday, 23 June (Pre-Conference)
Please note that the venue for Day 0 (23 June) is the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. The Pre-Conference will take place in Building C, Rambla del Poblenou 154, Barcelona.
Don’t forget to arrive there directly if you are taking part in the Pre-Conference Day. Click here to check the exact address.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Registration |
| 08:30 – 08:50 | Welcome & Introduction Dr Marta Aymeric (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) & Dr Katerina Stavrianaki (University College London, United Kingdom) |
| 08:50 – 09:10 | 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) |
| 09:10 – 09:30 | 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) |
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Evaluation of Augmented Reality Applications on Smartphones as a Tool for Enhancing Anatomical Knowledge Among Medical Students In Pakistan Amna Hassnain (Central Park Medical College (CPMC), Pakistan) |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | 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) |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | 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) |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee and refreshments break |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Lifestyle Reconfiguration Under Public Health Restrictions: Structural Evidence from Early COVID-19 Survey Data Qiqi Su (London, United Kingdom) |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Personalized Sleep Bruxism Management Through Phenotyping: A Pilot Study of WhatsApp-Delivered Behavioral Coaching Wissal Nada Sengouga (University of Naples Federico II, Algeria) |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | 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) |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Understanding participants’ skin health journey through a diversity lens: a patient-led study Nazma Khatun (Brunel University London, United Kingdom) |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Who Deploys It and How: Organisational Context and Public Trust in Health AI Brian Boyle (University of London, United Kingdom) |
| 12:30 – 12:50 | Understanding Factors Relevant for Improving District-wise Antenatal Coverage in India Jayesh Dabas (Bal Bharati Public School Pitampura, India) |
| 12:50 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Panel: A Simulation and Co-Design Lab for Youth-Focused Health Communication in Digital Environments Sıla Gürbüz, Kathleen Guan, Stella Goeschl & Wendi LeBrett |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Moderation analyses of illness perceptions and eHealth literacy on effectiveness of a digital inhaler program in asthma patients: a post-hoc analysis of the ACCEPTANCE trial Chao Sun (Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands) |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Coffee and refreshments break |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Data Quality and Utility Label in the EHDS: Building Europe’s Health Data Future Beyond Legal Compliance Sabire Sanem Yilmaz (Scuola Sant’Anna Advance Studies, Italy) |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Generative AI in Healthcare: A Systematic Review of Current Practice Dylan Patel (Medical School, University College London, United Kingdom) |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Digital and psychological interventions to prevent the onset of depression among perinatal women: Preliminary results of a meta-analysis with implications for public health Carlos Barquero-Jimenez (Department of Psychology, University Loyola Andalucia, Spain) |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | AKSI: AI-Enabled Knowledge Systems for India “The Detection That Saves Lives” (पहचान जो जीवन बचाए) Vinitha T (FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India) |
| 17:00 – 17:05 | Closing remarks Dr Katerina Stavrianaki (University College London, United Kingdom) & Prof Francesc SaigÍ Rubió (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) |
Wednesday, 24 June (Day 1)
| Time | Location (Room) | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 – 17:30 | Registration Desk | Registration |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | DPH 2026 Opening Plenary Session: Policy & European Sovereignty Welcome by Prof Patty Kostkova (General and Scientific Co-Chair) & Dr Esteve Fernández Muñoz (Secretary of Public Health of Catalunya) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Foyer & Merida | Coffee and refreshments break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Berlin | Workshop: 2nd International Workshop on Architecture-Based IoT and Artificial Intelligence to Support Public Health Chairs: Dr Juliane Regina de Oliveira & Dr Bruno Gomes Dutra |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Oral session : AI & Large Language Models in Healthcare Building Trust in ChatGPT: Accuracy and Reliability in Healthcare Research Memoona Zahra (School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia) et al. Clinical Applications of ChatGPT in Healthcare- Findings from an Umbrella Review Dumisani Nkhoma (Bond University, Australia) et al. Evidence Quality & Methodological Gaps in ChatGPT – Healthcare Literature Afifa Tanweer (Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland) et al. Optimizing Knowledge Graph Storage for Medical RAG Systems: A Comparative Evaluation of Neo4j and ArangoDB using SNOMED CT Yahia Guellab (BPH Inserm 1219, University of Bordeaux, France), Kevin Ouazzani (Lucidia Health Intelligence, La Réunion, France) & Gayo Diallo (BPH Inserm 1219, University of Bordeaux, France) Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Generative AI in Healthcare: A Systematic Review of Current Practice Dylan Patel (Medical School, University College London, United Kingdom) et al. From Burnout to Resilience: Using Transformative AI to Optimize Health Workforce Sustainability Lars Münter (Nordic Wellbeing Academy, Denmark) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Foyer & Merida | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Berlin | Workshop: Human-Centred Design for Digital Public Health in LMICs: A Persona-Based Workshop Chairs: Carina Dantas, Andrea Marinho, Lars Münter & Nina Sønderberg |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Berlin | Panel: From Theory to Practice: Building Competencies for Digital Public Health Chairs: Brigitte Strahwald & Katharina Hell |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Oral session: Health Promotion & Behaviour Change 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) Enhancing Health Education and Regional Patient Engagement through a Hybrid Metaverse Model: The Case for Facilitated Public Health Infrastructure Sabrina Hölzer (University of Applied Science Jena, Germany), Christian Erfurth (EAH Jena, Germany) & Lucie Schmidt (University of Applied Science Jena, Germany) Large-scale adaptation and tailored implementation of evidence-based primary cancer prevention programmes: The PIECES project. Jordi Piera-Jimenez (Digitization for the Sustainability of the Healthcare System – Catalan Health Service, Spain) et al. eHealth Solutions for Menopause Care: App Mapping and Systematic Review Sònia Moretó (eHealth Lab Research Group, School of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) et al. Assessing the strategic importance of health determinants in the digital era for health planning in Catalonia: results of a modified Delphi study Mireia Cano (eHealth Lab Research Group, School of Health Sciences and eHealth Centre, UOC, Spain) et al. From Play to Prevention: Building a Digital Developer Hub to Gamify Hygiene and Combat AMR in African and European Schools Lars Münter (Nordic Wellbeing Academy, Denmark) & Carina Dantas (SHINE 2Europe, Portugal) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Foyer & Merida | Coffee and refreshments break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Berlin | Workshop: Navigating the European Health Data Space: Mapping Essential Public Health Competencies and Personas Chairs: Syed Abrar Ahmed, Anabelle Macedo Silva & Dr Rok Hrzic |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Oral session: The Patient Experience: People using tools for health, empowerment and wellbeing Beyond Algorithms: A Qualitative Study on AI as a Relational Space for Organ Transplant Patients Hicran Karataş (Bartın University, Turkey) Highly Personalized Healing Stories – The Impact of Generative AI on Interactive Narrative Therapy Hartmut Koenitz (Södertörn University, Sweden) & Mirjam Eladhari (ibid.) The Menopause Mission – Digital Empowerment for Healthy Ageing for Women Lars Münter (Nordic Wellbeing Academy, Denmark), Carina Dantas (SHINE 2Europe, Portugal) & Nina Sønderberg (Nordic Wellbeing Academy, Ireland) Delphi study as a method in the conceptualization of a new digital wellbeing measure for university students and staff across Europe Maria Bezmelnitsina Collé (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) et al. Designing Social Support for Dietary Self-Monitoring: a Mixed-Methods Pilot of a Chatbot-Integrated Buddy System Kim Wintraecken (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) & Yuan Lu (ibid.) A Streaming Pancreas Twin: Online Regression and Behavioral Clustering from CGM data Luigi Di Biasi (University of Salerno, Italy) et al. |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Foyer & Merida | Welcome Drink reception Included in DPH Conference Pass |
Thursday, 25 June (Day 2)
| Time | Location (Room) | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 17:30 | Registration Desk | Registration |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Plenary Session: Health, One Health & Pandemic Preparedness Chair: Prof Patty Kostkova |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Foyer & Merida | Coffee and refreshments break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Berlin | Panel: Addressing youth public health priorities through digitally-enabled health systems and intergenerational collaboration Chairs: Louise Holly & Stella Goeschl |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Oral session: Health Equity & Access Understanding Factors Relevant for Improving District-wise Antenatal Coverage in India Jayesh Dabas (Bal Bharati Public School Pitampura, India) & Aarti Singh (Carnegie Mellon University, United States) Google Distance Matrix API and Healthcare Accessibility Prachi Verma (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India) & Sanjram Premjit Khanganba (ibid.) Adapting the Garcia Family personas to specific contexts of three Middle Income Countries | the MULTIPULM experience Carina Dantas (SHINE 2Europe, Lda; ICBAS – University of Porto, Portugal) et al. Low Vision Assistive Devices: From Traditional to Digital Assistive Technology Suraj Singh Senjam (All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India) A Protocol for Developing and Evaluating Inclusive Multi-Color Digital Interface Palettes for Low Vision and Color Vision Deficiency Users Palak Katiyar (National Center for Assistive Health Technology, AIIMS New Delhi), Suraj Senjam (ibid.) & Sandeep Singh (ibid.) Utilising digital tools to ensure high coverage of mass drug campaigns amongst never treated and heard to reach populations, critical groups to achieve disease elimination goals Laura Senyonjo (Sightsavers, United Kingdom) et al. |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Foyer & Merida | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Berlin | Building & Scaling Innovation in Barcelona Chair: Bhavna Malkani |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Oral session: Detection, Surveillance and Response Gamified Mobile Application for Digital Mosquito Surveillance: Three-Year Deployment Results and Network of Networks Expansion in Brazil and Portugal Paul Reynolds (UCL Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies (dPHE), University College London, United Kingdom) et al. Harnessing open-source digital surveillance for vector-borne diseases within the One Health framework Pilar Hernandez (SORMAS Foundation, Germany) & Emeline Janigan (SORMAS Foundation, Spain) Mapping digital tools for the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out in Poland: scoping review of interventions and implementation focus Rafał Halik (Department of Health Promotion and e-Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland) et al. An Interoperable Multi-Agent Framework for Unified Emergency Response Across Fragmented Healthcare Ecosystems Charalampia Pylarinou (CAREPOI, Greece) & Lefteris Gortzis (University of Patras, Greece) A Turnaround Time Dashboard for Hospital Laboratory Blood Tests Sephora Camilleri (University of Malta) & Conrad Attard (ibid.) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Foyer & Merida | Coffee and refreshments break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Berlin | Tutorial: Sample size requirements for developing accurate prediction models in health Chair: Dr Menelaos Pavlou |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Oral session: Health Information, Literacy & Misinformation Detecting Medical Disinformation: Methods, Gaps, and Next Steps Vagif Mammadaliyev (Institute of Information Technology, Azerbaijan) & Vusal Shahbazov (ibid.) Health literacy as a suppressor in the association between e-health literacy and susceptibility to health misinformation Mariusz Duplaga (Department of Health Promotion and e-Health, Jagiellonina University Medical College, Poland) et al. Health Information Seeking and Verification in Digital Public Health: A Conceptual Framework Illustrated by Evidence from Patients with Diabetes and Hypertension Haitham Alzghaibi (Department of Health Informatics, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia) Moderation analyses of illness perceptions and eHealth literacy on effectiveness of a digital inhaler program in asthma patients: a post-hoc analysis of the ACCEPTANCE trial Chao Sun (Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands) et al. Large Language Models for Health Literacy: A Comparative Trustworthiness Evaluation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation Hlib Aleksandrenko (Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic) & Martin Komenda (ibid.) |
| Conference Dinner * |
* The conference dinner is an optional add-on and requires an additional fee. If you would like to join us and have not yet completed payment, you can do so via the registration page here.
Friday, 26 June
| Time | Location | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 12:00 | Registration Desk | Registration |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Plenary Session: Predictive Modelling & IoT Chair: Jordi Jimenez |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Foyer & Merida | Coffee and refreshments break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Berlin | Workshop: User-Centric Design in Digital Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities in an Era of Disruptive Innovation Chairs: Dr Stephen Roberts, Dr Femida Gwadry-Sridhar & Emma Back |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | Oral session: Building, Governing and Scaling Health Data Systems FHIR Implementation for Electronic Medical Records in Indonesia: A National-Scale Interoperability and Digital Public Health Governance through SATUSEHAT Platform Dewi Nur Aisyah (Ministry of Health Indonesia) et al. From Bedside to Population Health: A Federated Governance Framework for Clinical Information Models in the Spanish National Health System Jordi Piera-Jiménez (Catalan Health Service, Spain) et al. Burkina Faso Drug Ontology: Harmonizing Pharmaceutical Data for Interoperability Bry Sylla (University of Bordeaux, Burkina Faso) et al. Medicinal Products Classification Model For Saudi Food and Drug Authority Shrooq Alsenan (Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia) et al. Designing National-Scale Digital Preventive Health Systems: Architectural and Governance Patterns from Indonesia Dewi Nur Aisyah (Ministry of Health Indonesia) et al. |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Foyer & Merida | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Berlin | Tutorial: Beyond data: How to seamlessly integrate surveillance and emergency response interventions in public health Chairs: Dr Pilar Hernández, Emeline Janigan, Xavier Collette & Isabelle Kerrec |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Estocolmo & Barcelona | DPH2026 Innovation Award |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Foyer & Merida | Enjoy a coffee and refreshments break while exploring the Poster & Demos Exhibition, open to all DPH 2026 delegates. |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Foyer & Merida | Poster & Demos Exhibition An opportunity to browse all posters and demos submitted to DPH2026 |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Closing & Awards Ceremony Hosted by Prof Patty Kostkova (General and Scientific Co-Chair) |