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Dear colleagues,

Greetings from the EUPHA section Social Security, Work and Health. We have had a wonderful and very active year, and our section’s has gained many new members! In this newsletter you will find a summary of the most important event of the year and an overview of upcoming events.

Wrapping up the EPH conference 2025

Audience in EPH2025

It was great to see so many of you at the European Public Health Conference in Helsinki, especially at our Section’s preconference, the workshops, and many oral and poster sessions. Thank you all for an inspiring conference with great discussions and interactions in and around Veranda 4 of the Finlandia Hall! Below you will find a few reflections and save the dates for 2026.

The SSWH preconference on “Planetary health – impacts on our health, well-being and work” on 11.11. was the perfect kick-off of several SSWH activities. In one day, we learned a lot about this relevant topic from different perspectives in presentations and through exchange in discussions. A big thank you again to Marianna Virtanen, Katriina Hyvönen, Veera Nieminen, Femke Abma, Reija Ruuhela and Emilie Friberg for organizing this timely preconference.

The SSWH scientific workshop on “Work, mental health and labour market participation of young workers: perspectives from five European countries” was organized by Jeppe Karl Busk Sørensen, Malte van Veen and Pi Fagerlund and conducted jointly with the EUPHA sections Public Mental Health and Public Health Economics. Three excellent scientific presentations were followed by reflections from Jutta Lindert and João Vasco Santos and exciting discussions with the audience. Here also a big thank you again for organizing – and participating in – this exciting workshop.   

Our annual Join the Network meeting was a great success with many fruitful interactions and lots of ideas for the years to come from a broad variety of attendees from different disciplines and countries. We were very honored with the reflections of emeritus professor Kristina Alexanderson from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden on the 25-year anniversary of our SSWH section. Kristina established the section in Paris in 2000 and alluded to the past 25 years. We are happy to announce that Kristina is so kind to share a summary of the history with us in the next newsletter.  

Save the date(s)

7th in-between digital SSWH seminar

It is our great pleasure to announce our 7th in-between digital SSWH seminar that is organised on March 10, 2026 from 13.00-15.00 CET. In this digital seminar we will showcase a range of research projects within the research field by letting (young) researchers present their projects. We allow plenty of time for questions and discussions. We hope that many of you will take the opportunity to meet up and be inspired! More information and a link to the event will follow.

A free online seminar on “Work Disability Prevention around the world”

This seminar is organised on February 4, 2026 from 10.00-11.30 CET with Professor Alex Collie (Australia) and Professor Angelique de Rijk (The Netherlands). Sign up for the seminar here: https://niva.org/course/work-disability-prevention-around-the-world/ 

A NIVA course “Innovative Methods for Studying Working Life Patterns”

This NIVA course takes place on March 4-5, 2026 onsite in Helsinki, Finland. See https://niva.org/course/understanding-and-measuring-working-life-patterns-consequences-and-societal-costs/ 

A NIVA course “Work Disability Prevention – Bridging Research and Practice”

This NIVA course is organised on April 15-17, 2026 onsite in Stockholm, Sweden. See https://niva.org/course/work-disability-prevention-bridging-research-and-practice-2/

19th EPH Conference in Bilbao, Spain

The next EPH conference will be organised on November 10-13, 2026. As we prepare the activities of our Section for the 19th EPH Conference in Bilbao, Spain from 10-13 November 2026 with the title “Urban and global synergies: shaping the future of public health with climate resilience, equity and innovation”, please feel free to share ideas with us for workshops or abstracts – the deadline for abstract submission is May 1st, 2026.

Remember to follow us in LinkedIn to get the latest news:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eupha-social-security-work-and-health/ 

 

We will be back in 2026 with more SSWH section information.

Season’s Greetings and a Happy New Year!

Warm regards,

Agnes, Claus, Femke, Laura, Emilie and Ute

 

 







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