The day before the conference opens, EHUPP showcases four pre-conferences that highlight EU health policy at work.
The day before the conference opens, EHUPP showcases four pre-conferences that highlight EU health policy at work.
Tuesday 10 November, 09:00-17:00, Room 0a
Organiser: CIRCE Joint Action
EU4Health priority: Health systems and workforce
This pre-conference will focus on the most significant results and cross-cutting lessons emerging from the implementation of transferred best practices in primary healthcare. By bringing these insights to a wider audience of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, this conference aims to stimulate dialogue on effective implementation strategies and to support the translation of evidence into health policy and practice.
Tuesday 10 November, 09:00-17:00, Room 0e>2
Organisers: JACARDI, JA PreventNCD, EUPHA Chronic Diseases Section, EUPHA Public Health Monitoring and Reporting Section
EU4Health priority: Cancer, cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases
The Safe Hearts Plan, adopted by the European Commission in December 2025, is the EU’s first comprehensive strategy on cardiovascular disease. This pre-conference presents the European Joint Actions as the primary operational mechanism for translating the Safe Hearts Plan’s political mandate into evidence-based, cross-country action.
Tuesday 10 November, 13:30-17:00, Room 0e>1
Organisers: JA PreventNCD, EUPHA Urban Public Health Section, with WHO
EU4Health priority: Cancer, cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases
This pre-conference aims to delve deeper into identifying how the policies, practices, recommendations and knowledge generated in the local environment can contribute to refining, improving or aligning the recommendations, policies about commercial determinants of health for the national and EU level, and to identify what additional developments are needed to “help” politicians to support and implement policies.
Tuesday 10 November, 09:00-12:30, Room 3h
Organiser: ASPHER, with prize support from Public Health Reviews
Postgraduate students and early-career researchers present their research to an international audience and get feedback from experienced researchers and peers. Organised by ASPHER. Since 2009, the Young Researchers Forum has given postgraduate students and early-career researchers a place to present their work to an international audience and get feedback before journal submission. It is a first step into the European public health community.
Project: European Health Union Priority Programme at EPH Conference 2026 (EHUPP)
Duration: 1 March 2026 to 28 February 2027
Coordinator and sole beneficiary: European Public Health Association (EUPHA), Otterstraat 118-124, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands, [email protected]
Granting authority: European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)
This project is funded by the European Union under grant agreement 101314900 of the EU4Health Programme.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.