Dear colleagues,

We would also like to share the overview of the LGBTQI+ health-related content at EPH2025, including our very own Join-the-Network meeting. More details are provided below. We hope to see you in Helsinki next month!

Newsletter October 2025

1. Call for Submissions – SOGI in Childhood and Adolescence: A Global Forum on Development, Health, and Rights
2. Overview EUPHA-SGMH Activities & LGBTQ+ Health Content at EPH2025

1. Call for Submissions – SOGI in Childhood and Adolescence: A Global Forum on Development, Health, and Rights

Call for Submissions – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Childhood and Adolescence: A Global Forum on Development, Health, and Rights

The organizers invite researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers to submit proposals for the 2026 Global Forum, to be held in the Netherlands. This in-person event will bring together international, interdisciplinary voices to advance developmental science that addresses the lives of LGBTQ+ children and adolescents. Submissions may focus on identity development, health and wellbeing, education, families, policy, civic participation, and more—with an emphasis on intersectionality, innovation, and actionable science. Formats include symposia, posters, papers, policy/practice sessions, and roundtables.

The Global Forum is sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), and Utrecht University.

The call for submissions is now available. Submission deadline: Thursday, November 6, 2025, 11:59 PM ET.

2. Overview EUPHA-SGMH Activities & LGBTQI+ Health Content at EPH2025

We updated our overview of EUPHA-SGMH activities and all other LGBTQI+ content at the EPH conference in Helsinki this year. Please find the full EPH 2025 SGMH program in this linked file. All EUPHA-SGMH activities are also listed below. Please join us!

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12TH

Poster Walk: Health literacy: behaviour, disparities, misinformation (2.R.) 

10:30-11:30 – Room 2 (2nd floor)

Chairperson(s): Richard Osborne (Australia), Javier Lera (Spain)

2.R.4 – General health literacy and associated factors among LGBTQ+ people in Oslo, Norway
Audun Brunes (Norway)

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13TH

Scientific Session: Healthcare & Treatment Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals Across Europe (5.N.)

09:00-10:00 – Latva (LF)

Organized by EUPHA-SGMH

Chairperson(s): Richard Bränström (Sweden), Benjamin Smart (Sweden)

Sexual minority health disparities across 75 health conditions and diagnoses
Richard Bränström (Sweden)

Participatory approaches in LGBTQ+ youth healthcare research: Insights from a Swiss study
Tobias Kuhnert (Switzerland)

Adverse childhood experiences in transgender and gender diverse youth seeking care
Guendalina Di Luigi (Netherlands)

Oral Presentations: Mental health, loneliness and social contexts (6.Q.)

11:45-12:45 – Oksa (LF)

Chairperson(s): Jaana Suvisaari (Finland), Kathryn Bates (United Kingdom)

Temporal trends in mental health among sexual minorities in Stockholm County, 2010 to 2021
Willi Zhang (Sweden)

Scientific Session: LGBTQ+ people navigating societal adversities & mental health risk across contexts (8.X.2.)

17:20-17:45 – Room 4 (2nd Floor)

Organized by EUPHA-SGMH

Chairperson(s): David Doyle (Netherlands)

LGBT+ people’s suicide vulnerability in Czechia: Minority stress in a high structural stigma context
Michal Pitonak (Czechia)

Intersectional discrimination and drug use among sexual and gender minorities in Kenya and Rwanda
Winstoun Muga (Kenya)

Sexual orientation differences in ACEs and internalizing psychopathology: Swedish population study
Benjamin Smart (Sweden)

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14TH

Skills Building Seminar: How to use human rights-based advocacy and legal action to advance public health (9.Y.1.)

09:00-9:25 – Room 5 (2nd floor)

Organized by EUPHA-LAW, EUPHA-ETH, EUPHA-SGMH, EUPHA-MIG, EUPHA-GLO, EUPHA-ENV

Chairperson(s): Farhang Tahzib (EUPHA-ETH)

Networking: Join the SGMH Network Meeting (SGMH)

10:30-11:15 – Room 12, 1st floor congress wing

Organized by EUPHA-SGMH

Chairperson(s): Arjan van der Star (EUPHA-SGMH), Lovro Markovic (EUPHA-SGMH)

Poster Walk: From policy to impact: equity, perception and prevention (11.R.)

14:00-15:00 – Room 2 (2nd floor)

Chairperson(s): Alexis Strader (Belgium), Alex Martin (United Kingdom)

11.R.1 – Systematic review of national guidelines on cancer prevention in trans and gender-diverse populations
Allegra Ferrari (Belgium)

Poster Walk: Sustainability and innovation in global health (11.S.)

14:00-15:00 – Room 3 (2nd floor)

Chairperson(s): Jussi Sane (Finland), Maria-Christine Mautner (Austria)

11.S.5 – Pathways to quality of life outcomes: black LGBTQ+ disparities in the United Kingdom
Nia Cartwright (United Kingdom)

Pitch Presentations: Mental health and inequities among vulnerable populations (11.H.)

14:00-15:00 – Honka (LF)

Chairperson(s): Arjan van der Star (EUPHA-SGMH), Zelalem Mengesha (Australia)Mental health of Dutch LGBTQIA+ young adults: addressing challenges and harnessing strengths
Chantie Luijten (Netherlands)

Mental health trends among sexual minority youth in Stockholm County, 2010 to 2021
Willi Zhang (Sweden)

THROUGHOUT THE CONFERENCE

Poster Display: Sexual and Gender Minority Health (DY.)

08:00-19:00

DY.6 – National survey of gambling and gambling harms in LGBTQIA+ communities in Great Britain
Alexandra Sawyer (United Kingdom)

DY.7 – Impacts of anti-trans discourses on gender-affirming care access in Brazil: family and provider views
Julia C de Pontes (Canada)

DY.12 – Integration of Sex and Gender in Clinical Practice Guidelines
Ana Toledo Chávarri (Spain)

DY.16 – Homophobic Hostility by Healthcare Providers and Mental Health Outcomes in LGBTIQ+ Patients
Josue Eli Villegas Dominguez (Mexico)

DY.17 – Perceptions of Environmental Harm from Nicotine Products Among the Polish LGBTQ+ Community 
Łukasz Balwicki (Poland)

Best regards,

Arjan van der Star, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Section President
EUPHA-SGMH