We invite submissions of case studies for the workshop “Transforming Digital Public Health: Advancing Possibilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Public Goods through South-South and South-North Collaboration”.
The workshop will share and discuss strategies for effective international knowledge exchange and collaboration in digital public health that can help unlock the potential of AI and other new technologies for all.
Submissions can take the form of extended abstracts or full papers. Submissions should share case studies, learning and insights from collaborative learning and knowledge exchange in digital public health, and explore related challenges, barriers or enablers.
Accepted case studies will be presented in-person at the workshop to be held at DPH 2027 in London. Case study presentations will last 10 minutes, focusing on the key features of the collaboration, challenges and solutions, insights and lessons learned, and emerging recommendations (if any) for the wider field of digital public health. The workshop organisers are placing a particular emphasis on ensuring diversity of presenters across the Global South and Global North.
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!! Deadlines !!
| Workshop Call for Papers (CFP) – Submission deadline | 23 December 2026 |
| Workshop Call for Papers (CFP) – Notification deadline | 28 January 2027 |
| Camera-ready deadline | 7 April 2027 |
Themes of interest
Themes and questions of interest include:
- How do South-South and South-North learning and knowledge exchange add value? What do they demand of us as researchers and practitioners?
- How can South-South and South-North collaboration in digital public health be effectively facilitated, governed, sustained and institutionalised?
- Technical and structural barriers to equitable international partnership in digital public health, and strategies for overcoming them.
- Enablers of equitable partnership and co-design, and strategies for promoting them.
- Strategies to address the challenge of ‘coded inequities’ in AI-linked and other digital tools (e.g., language, geography, gender, ethnicity).
- Approaches for integrating community expertise, lived experience and local knowledge into digital health co-design processes.
Submission guidelines
We encourage interested author(s) to submit either a full paper or an extended abstract. The author(s) of an accepted paper/ abstract, which is presented in-person at DPH 2027 in London, will be included in the conference proceedings – extended abstracts will be included in Frontiers proceedings, and full papers will be submitted for possible inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
As noted above, accepted authors will be invited to present their case study for 10 minutes at the workshop, focusing on the key features of their collaboration, challenges and solutions, insights and lessons learned, and emerging recommendations (if any) for the wider field of digital public health.
Accepted authors may also be invited to submit their case study to a dedicated journal Research Topic following the conference.
For submitting a Full Paper, please follow the instructions:
- All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
- The papers must range between 4‑8 pages, including references and any appendices.
- Papers should conform to the IEEE double column format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
- Papers must be anonymised: the names and affiliations removed, and any references to previous works either substituted with “anonymised” or rephrased.
- All submissions must be submitted in PDF format using the Easychair submission system. Click on the submission button below and choose the “DPH2027 Workshop – Transforming Digital Public Health” track.
- Please paste your Abstract in the Abstract field in the Easychair system for ease of processing and review allocation.
NOTE that:
- Full Paper 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.
- All accepted papers will have their own DOI.
- Accepted papers will need to incorporate reviewers’ comments and re-submit their paper by the Camera-ready deadline. Instructions will be provided.
- Papers accepted for publication must have at least one author registered and must be presented in person at the conference in order to be considered for publication by IEEE Xplore. Papers from no-show authors will be removed from the proceedings.
- An accepted paper may be selected for either oral or poster presentation depending on review score and topic specificity.
For submitting an Extended Abstract, please follow the instructions:
- Please format your submission using Times New Roman, 12 pt font size, with justified alignment. The submission must not exceed 1000 words, excluding the reference list. References are compulsory and should be included in the submission. A maximum of two figures or tables may be included.
- Extended Abstracts could follow the standard structure: Introduction, Background, Methods / Datasets, Results, and Conclusion. Alternatively, computer science and engineering abstracts can follow alternative structure such as Introduction, Background, Framework / Architecture, Implementation, Results (if available), Novelty and Challenges and Conclusion.
- Submissions must be anonymised: the names and affiliations removed, and any references to previous works either substituted with “anonymised” or rephrased.
- All submissions must be submitted in PDF format using the Easychair submission system. Click on the submission button below and choose the “DPH2027 Workshop – Transforming Digital Public Health” track.
- Paste your first section (Aims/Abstract/Overview) to the Abstract field in the Easychair system for ease of processing and review allocation.
NOTE that:
- Abstract submissions will be reviewed by two to three reviewers from the PC and SPC committees and assessed in terms of their quality, relevance to the conference, originality, significance, correctness, and clarity.
- Accepted Extended Abstracts will have to incorporate reviewers’ comments and re-submit their abstract by the Camera-ready deadline. Instructions will be provided.
- An accepted abstract may be selected for either oral or poster presentation depending on review score and topic specificity.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to:
- Dr Stephen Roberts – stephen.roberts@ucl.ac.uk
SUBMISSION
Submission is via EasyChair.