We welcome submission to the Main research track

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

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

All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. You are invited to submit your work to one of our three conference tracks:

Main track – long papers (up to 10 pages), short papers (up to 5 pages), public health abstracts
PhD/MSc Students track – Dedicated track for postgraduate students welcoming progress reports, long and short research papers
Posters and Demos – Visual presentations of current or planned work


Authors are strongly advised the register on the online submission system Easychair and begin preparing their submissions well in advance of the following deadlines:

29 Jan 2025 – Workshop / Tutorial and Panel proposal – Submission
12 Feb 2025 – Workshop and panel proposal Notification
5 Mar 2025 – Main Track: Abstract Submission
12 Mar 2025 Main track: Full paper Submission
9 Apr 2025 – Posters/Demo & PhD/MSc Track & Workshops Submission

Committees

Chairs

Patty Kostkova – UCL Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies, UK
Caroline Wood – BUPA, UK

Publication

DPH proceedings will be published as an Abstract Book from all Tracks in Frontiers Digital Public Health Journal.

Long / short papers from the Main Track and PhD/MSc Track will be published by IEEE.
Venue

Venue: Vidamar Hotel, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal