Dear colleagues,

With best wishes for a great Easter break, we are sending you the March update from the EUPHA Health Services Research (HSR) Section.

Firstly, we were delighted to see so many of you join the HSR Community Consultation on 13 March. Thank you for taking the time to participate and for your valuable contributions to the discussions. Building on this success, we are organising our (hybrid) mid-term conference on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 June 2026. The focus of this conference will be care pathways and their role in strengthening public health systems. This conference will be part of our second edition of our one-week, EUPHA-THSR Spring School: ‘Translational Health Services Research Methods 2026: Healthcare and Health Information Pathways for Strengthening Health and Care Systems’. This will be the , which will take place in Berlin from Monday 22 to Friday 26 June. Further details will follow in our April newsletter. Save the date!

We would also like to remind you that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the European Public Health Conference 2026 is 1 May 2026 at 18:00 CET. If you are interested in contributing to coordinated HSR proposals for workshops or pre-conference proposals, please send a brief outline of your idea, proposal or support request by email to: THSR@charite.de.

And remember you can submit your local activities to the European Public Health Week 2026

Best regards,

Lorena Dini, lorena.dini@charite.de and Filippo Quattrone, f.quattrone@santannapisa.it

First HSR Dialogue between EUPHA-Sections, on  30 March 2026 (online)

We are pleased to launch our EUPHA-HSR 2026 Webinar Series – From Public to Global Health Synergies: a shared journey towards resilience, equity and innovation

For the launch of our webinar series, we chose a HSR-Dialogue. This format is an open dialogue between presidents of EUPHA-Sections. In this first event, Dr. Lorena Dini, President of the EUPHA Health Services Research Section will meet Dr. Elena Petelos, President of the EUPHA Global Health Section, to discuss the intersections and potential synergies between public health, global health, and the role of HSR across both domains.

Agenda

• Introductory round of networks and participants
• Presentation from EUPHA Sections on their current work in health systems research and global health
• Discussion on the role of health services research in the fields of public health and global health
• Identification of priority areas for joint work through network discussion

Note that you have to register for this event. To register click here. The virtual space will be open shortly before the event starts (around 16:45 CET). For more information click here. This time, our HSR Dialogue will be hosted by the Theme Global Health Services Research of the Charité Centre of Global Health. Is possible to join in-person. For more details please contact THSR@charite.de

HSR-Section @ the EPHW

We are pleased to announce already some events scheduled for European Public Health Week 2026. 

Upcoming HSR Section Members’ Events:

• Hot Topics in Mental Health Care Research in Germany: Primer for the DNVF Forum ‘Rising Numbers, Growing Demand: Health Services Research in Mental Health’. Organised by the working groups HPSRI (Charité) and IHSR (DNVF), 6th May 09:00 to 09:45 h, online, free of charge, English
• Recap and key messages from the DNVF Forum on mental healthcare research in Germany: Rising numbers, growing demand – health services research in mental health. Organised by the working groups HPSRI (Charité) and IHSR (DNVF) 6th May 17:15 to 18:00 h, online, free of charge, English
• ‘An Health Planning Trilemma? The Case of Public Health Services, Municipalities and Regional Services’, organised by the Portuguese National Association of Public Health Doctors.

More information in our April Newsletter. 

We would like to share details of all HSR-Section members’ events in our April newsletter. Please take this opportunity to raise awareness of your own local activities in the newsletter, as well as registering your events for the EPH Week. To do so, send us the name and link to your event once you have registered it with the EUPHW, and we will add it to the newsletter. If you require support from the section for submission, please contact THSR@charite.de

Interesting Reading

Each month we highlight a small selection of recent scientific articles and policy publications relevant to Health Services Research.

European Journal of Public Health

Siciliani L.
Waiting times for health services, health, and labour market outcomes
European Journal of Public Health, Volume 36, Supplement 2, March 2026, Pages ii3–ii7
https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf213

Manacorda T. et al.
Measuring patient experience of integrated care in multiple sclerosis: development and validation of the Integrated Care Experience Scale (ICES-MS)
European Journal of Public Health, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2026, ckaf191
https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf191

Sánchez-García Á. et al.
Landscape analysis towards data quality and utility labelling in the European Health Data Space
European Journal of Public Health, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2026, ckag009
https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckag009

Policy reports

OECD (2026)
Health System Performance Assessment Framework for Luxembourg
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/health-system-performance-assessment-framework-for-luxembourg_6e4a7983-en.html

OECD (2026)
Scaling Artificial Intelligence in Health
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/scaling-artificial-intelligence-in-health_a436e12d-en.html

If you would like to contribute to upcoming activities or signal relevant publications for future newsletters, please contact us at THSR@charite.de.