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Dear colleagues,
Greetings! Yesterday and today, we participated in the Section Council Meeting. During these two days, we collaborated with other EUPHA Sections and fine-tuned our work plan for the year, including our contributions to the upcoming conference.
Thank you to those of you who have already reached out to us after our first December newsletter and shared ideas and proposals for HSR workshops and pre-conference submissions for EPH 2026. We will continue refining these plans.
Best regards, Lorena Dini, Charité Berlin, Germany and Filippo Quattrone – Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa, Italy |
European Public Health Conference 2026, Bilbao, Spain
The conference theme is Urban and global synergies: shaping the future of public health with climate resilience, equity and innovation. has now been launched and the abstract submission is open.
Save the date: Main conference: 11–13 November 2026 Pre-conference events: 10 November 2026
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Call for workshop and pre-conference contributions for the HSR Track at EPH 2026
In preparation for the EPH Conference 2026 in Bilbao, the EUPHA Health Services Research Section invites members to share ideas, abstracts and expressions of interest for workshops and pre-conference sessions.
As in previous years, the section aims to develop and submit several section-initiated workshop proposals bringing together contributions in health services research and related fields. If you are interested in being part of a coordinated HSR workshop proposal, we encourage you to contact the section leadership in advance.
Please send a short description of your idea or an abstract to: THSR@charite.de.
The section leadership will review the received contributions and help organise them into thematic proposals to be submitted on behalf of the HSR section.
More information on formatting and the general submission process is available on the EPH Conference website.
Indicative deadline: 31 March 2026
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Call for webinar proposals and speakers – EUPHA HSR Section Activities
The HSR Section is planning a webinar series for 2026 to promote discussion and exchange on key topics in health services research.
We invite members to propose webinar topics and/or volunteer as speakers. Early-career researchers are especially encouraged to participate.
If you would like to contribute, please send a short description of your proposed webinar (or your expression of interest as a speaker) to:
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Public Health Week – local, hybrid or online – Getting ready for early May
Public health matters every day, but during the European Public Health Week, EUPHA invites our community to join and raise awareness on public health issues in Europe through dedicated activities at local level.
The HSR Section is organizing some activities and invites all of you to do the same organizing local activities in your own language with the EUPHA-HSR brand. Please get back to us if you would like to conduct any activities during the Public Health Week in early May on behalf of the HSR-Section in your country or region. Get back to us on this writing to:
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Be bold, get involved – become an active member of the HSR community
To support more active interaction and collaboration, we are launching an EUPHA-HSR community on Microsoft Teams. Some of you reported difficulties joining the Teams community. If you experienced problems, please send us an email with the subject Join HSR Community from your email address, including at least your name, country and organisation in your signature. We can also add you manually. Alternatively, you can join directly via the Teams link
You can always contact us directly for individual matters
Lorena Dini, and Filippo Quattrone,
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