Dear Colleagues

Thank you to all those who expressed an interest in joining our steering committee. We are now in the process of establishing this and will be in touch shortly to all who applied.

Call for Abstracts – 2026 EPH Conference in Bilbao

Conference theme: “Urban and global synergies: shaping the future of public health with climate resilience, equity and innovation”

As we prepare for the EPH Conference in Bilbao (November 2026), the EUPHA Section on Public Mental Health warmly encourages members to share abstracts highlighting innovative work in public mental health ahead of the general submission deadline.

We aim to develop a series of symposium and workshop proposals showcasing public mental health research and practice. If you are interested in being part of a section-led submission, please send your abstract to the section leadership for review. We will work to align contributions into strong, thematically focused draft proposals.

If you have ideas that could be strengthened through collaboration with other EUPHA sections, we would particularly welcome this and encourage you to indicate it in your submission.

More information about abstract formatting and general submissions can be found on the European Public Health Conference website. 

We would especially like to encourage submissions within the following themes:

• Urban environments, inequalities and mentally healthy cities
• Lessons learned from the COVID19 pandemic- impacts on vulnerable populations
• Migration and mental health
• Digital technologies and public mental health
• Social security, work and mental health
• Advancing research on mental health prevention
• Surveys/ data and methods to support population surveillance and understanding mental health needs in underserved populations
• Multimorbidities and mental health
• Public health approaches to tackling inequalities in mental health
• Children and young people and mental health
• Intersectoral collaboration for good mental health for all
• Working with people with lived and living experience in public mental health
• Population-based strategies in public mental health
• Mental health in all and for all policies

Please send in your proposals to euphapmh@gmail.com by 25^th March 2026.

If you choose to submit your abstract to the section for consideration, please do not also submit it via the official EPH Conference system at the same time. We will inform you as early as possible whether your abstract has been included in a section-led workshop proposal.

Should your abstract not be selected, we will ensure that you have adequate time to submit it independently before the official EPH deadline of 1 May.

Please note that selection by the section does not automatically secure a place in the conference programme. All section-proposed symposia and workshops, along with individual abstracts, are reviewed and scored by the EPH International Scientific Committee, which determines final acceptance for the conference programme.

New EUPHA Public Mental Health Section ‘Linked in’ group established

To support connections within the section we have recently established a new LinkedIn group (many thanks to Andreas Baumer from the University of Zurich for his help with setting this up!) We want to trial this to see if it allows section members to connect more readily outside of the main meetings. This could become a helpful platform to strengthen conference proposals, collaborations for grants, research and other initiatives. Please feel free to join using the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/17546014/

Best wishes

Professor Jayati Das-Munshi, Kings College London, UK
President for the Public Mental Health Section

Professor Ulrich Reininghaus, University of Mannheim, Germany
Vice-President for the Public Mental Health Section