Dear section members,

We are one week away from the largest annual European public health event, the 18th European Public Health Conference 2025 – “Investing for sustainable health and well-being” to the beautiful city of Helsinki, Finland, from 12-14 November 2025. 

Please mind the following:

• Venue: Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland HERE 
• Accommodation HERE 
• Conference program HERE 
• Pre-conference program HERE 
• To stay in touch please follow and use this year’s #EPH2025 and #EUPHAatEPH2025 hashtags on LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Facebook!
   

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OUR SECTION EVENTS DURING THE 18th EPH 2025 CONFERENCE
Our section organizes 3 WORKSHOPS, 1 JOIN THE NETWORK meeting and several presentations on injury prevention. We encourage young researchers, community workers, policy makers, academics, and public health practitioners to register and join the discussion on injury prevention and safety promotion. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to engage with leading experts, exchange knowledge, and contribute to shaping the future of public health.

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5.B. – Skills building seminar: Breaking the silence – improving communication with victims of domestic violence in healthcare
Thursday 13th November 2025, Helsinki Time: 9:00-10:00 (Room Hall B)

Organisers:

• Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (Finland)
• EUPHA Injury prevention and safety promotion section
• EU project VIPROM- victim protection in medicine
• Finnish Medical Women´s Association

Chairperson(s): 

• Bettina Pfleiderer (Germany)

Presentations:

• Domestic violence as a public health crisis: challenges and opportunities for health care
  

  • Maria Papadakaki (EUPHA-INJ)

• Training communication skills with victims of domestic violence

  • Bettina Pfleiderer (Germany)

• 40 min interactive case-based part with a live demonstration and discussion on how to screen for domestic violence, how to ask the right questions and how to respond.

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8.Q. – Scientific session: Mental Health Outcomes of Injuries: Research and Practice Challenges
Thursday 13th November 2025, Helsinki Time: 16:45-17:45 (Room Oksa LF)

Organisers:

• EUPHA Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion section
• EUPHA Public mental health section
• EUPHA Public health epidemiology section
• EuroSafe & EU-IDB Network

Chairperson(s): 

• Maria Papadakaki (EUPHA-INJ), Hynek Pikhart (Czechia)

Presentations:

• Injuries worsen depressive symptoms in older adults: Evidence from the Czech HAPIEE study
  

  • Eliska Hrezova (Czechia)

• Methodological challenges in injury investigation of mental health outcomes after road traffic injury

  • Birute Strukcinskiene (EUPHA-INJ)

• Mental health assessment in EDs after road traffic injuries: a study protocol

  • Stavroula Lioliou (Greece)

• Building resilience of frontline physicians:WONCA MHT project in natural disaster/armed conflict zone

  • Marilena Anastasaki (Greece)

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10.N. – Scientific session: Health and Safety Challenges of Female Migrant Workers in Europe
Friday 14th November 2025, Helsinki Time: 11:45-12:45 (Room Latva LF)

Organisers:

• EUPHA Injury prevention and safety promotion section
• EUPHA Migrant and ethnic minority health section
• EUPHA Social security, work and health section
• EUPHA Law and public health section
• EUPHA Global health section
• EUPHA WG on Gender Equality and Woman Empwoerment

Chairperson(s):

• Maria Papadakaki (EUPHA-INJ), Sonia Dias (EUPHA-MIG)

Presentations:

• Co-Creating Solutions for Health and Inclusion with Migrant Women in Portugal

  • Ana Gama (Portugal)

• Sexual Harassment against Migrant Women in Europe’s Informal Labor Market

  • Kyriaki Vagionaki (Greece)

• Understanding occupational injuries among non-residents in Europe: evidence from the EU-IDB

  • Marco Giustini (Italy)

• Protecting the rights of migrant and refugee women and girls – a public health law perspective

  • Dimitra Lingri (EUPHA-LAW)

• Perinatal Experiences and Vulnerabilities of Female Migrants in Refugee Settings

  • Victoria Vivilaki (Greece)

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JOIN THE NETWORK  
Injury prevention and safety promotion 
Wednesday 12th November 2025, Helsinki Time: 14:00-14:45 Room 15, 1st floor congress wing

Our “Join the Network” meeting will allow us to have an open discussion, share insights and collectively work towards injury prevention and safety promotion. We encourage you to join this meeting and bring along your research ideas and priorities, as we want to make sure that all voices are heard, and all individuals are represented in the section’s activities.
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SOME SECTION’S NEWS OF 2025
Some section 2025 initiatives that are aligned to our strategic goals can be found below. It is our effort to keep evolving to meet the changing needs of our members. More precisely EUPHA Injury Section: 

• Co-organized awareness raising events on SAFE DRIVING during the European Public Health Week (EPHW2025) in May-June 2025, together with municipalities and NGOs in Greece HERE
• Co-organized a webinar titled: “VR technology for safe commuting in teenagers” held on Thursday, 15 May 2025 by the SAFETeen consortium HERE and HERE.
• Participated at the Annual Conference of the European Burns Association in Berlin, on 3 September 2025 and the section vice president Dr Johan Lund delivered a lecture titled “Lessons from Public Health” during the “Plenary session 2: Prevention of burn injuries” HERE
• EUPHA-INJ participated in the General Assembly of the Horizon project “ProtAct-Us from long-term consequences of road crashes” (2024-2027) in Heraklion, Greece on 29 September 2025. This project received funding under grant agreement No. 101147445 and the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) is a partner of this consortium. HERE
• Contributed to the 12th European Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EU-SAFETY 2025) held on 30 September and 1-2 October 2025 in Heraklion Greece. Presented a poster on “Injury Prevention in Europe: Priorities, Challenges, and the Road Ahead – The Mission of the EUPHA Injury Prevention Section” presented at EU-SAFETY 2025. HERE
• Participated in an expert and stakeholder capacity building meeting on the Trauma Surveillance Mechanism of Crete region. HERE

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INTERESTING NEWS

• From loneliness to social connection: charting a path to healthier societies. Report of the WHO Commission on Social Connection. More information HERE
• CDC WISQARStm. An interactive online collection of analysis tools for fatal, non fatal and cost of injury data. More information HERE
• WHO Database of promising interventions to prevent and respond to elder abuse. More information HERE
• The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. More information HERE
• Road Safety Statistics for 2024: Progress continues amid persistent challenges. More information HERE
• ITF (2024), Road Safety Annual Report 2024, OECD  Publishing, Paris More information HERE
• 19th Annual Road Safety Performance Index (PIN Report). More information HERE
• New WHO report demonstrates that corporal punishment harms children’s health. More information HERE
• UNICEF: Policy Brief – Ending Violence Against Children in Europe and Central Asia. More information HERE
• UN – Femicides in 2023 – Global estimates. More information HERE
• European Disability Forum – Combating violence against women with disabilities A guide for organisations of women and persons with disabilities. More information HERE
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS ON INJURY PREVENTION

• SafeFutures 2027 -International Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety, March 2027, California USA, Centre for Trauma and Injury Prevention Research & Department of Emergency Medicine (Dates to be announced HERE
• 27th EFORT Annual Congress (European Federation of National Associations for Orthopaedics and Traumatology), Málaga, Spain, from Monday 04 to Wednesday 06 May 2026. More information HERE 
• 19th ESTSS Conference (European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies). Talking about trauma, Coibra, Portugal, 3-6 June, 2027. More information HERE   
• 25th European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ESTES) & 8th World Trauma Congress (WCTC), Stockholm Sweden, 26-28 April 2026. More information HERE
• 16th World Congress on Brain Injury. Valencia Spain, March 2027. Organized by the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA). More information HERE 
• 15th Congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC), Glasgow Scotland, 23-25 April 2027. More information HERE
• 22nd European Burns Association Congress. 15-18 September 2027. Antwerp – Belgium. September 15-18, 2027. More information HERE 
• 10th International RSS Conference, 23-26 June 2026, Naples, Italy. More information HERE
• RTR- Conference on Results from Road Transport Research, 10-12 February 2026, Brussels, Belgium. More information HERE 
• IRTAD Conference, 15-17 April 2026, Athens, Greece, More information HERE 
• WCTRS, World Conference on Transport Research Society, 6-10 July 2026, Toulouse, France. More information HERE 

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INTERESTING STUDIES

• Bullock, G. et al. Prevention strategies for lower extremity injury: A systematic review and meta-analyses for the Female, woman, and girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) consensus. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Volume 28, S45
• Yan, J., Wang, C., & Sun, B. (2025). Global, regional, and national burdens of traumatic brain injury from 1990 to 2021. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1556147.
• Alves, T., Silva, S., Braz, P., Papadakaki, M., Aniceto, C., Mexia, R., & Matias-Dias, C. (2025, May). Epidemiology of Falls Among Older Adults in Portugal: Analysis of Unintentional Injuries Reported by a National Emergency Surveillance System. Healthcare (Vol. 13, No. 10, p. 1160).
• Seppala, L. J., Frith, J., Skelton, D. A., Becker, C., Blain, H., Kenny, R. A., … & European Geriatric Medicine Society Special Interest Group on Falls and Fractures. (2025). Challenges and opportunities for falls prevention: an online survey across European healthcare professionals. European Geriatric Medicine, 1-14.
• Cowley, L. E., Lamela, D., Drabarek, K., Rodrigues, L. B., Ntinapogias, A., Naughton, A., … & Hurt, L. (2025). Defining child maltreatment for research and surveillance: an international, multi-sectoral, Delphi consensus study in 34 countries in Europe and surrounding regions. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 50.
• Turner, M. C., Basagaña, X., Albin, M., Broberg, K., Burdorf, A., van Daalen, K. R., … & Straif, K. (2025). Occupational health in the era of climate change and the green transition: a call for research. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 54.
• Pickering, G., O’Keeffe, M., Bannister, K., Becker, S., Cottom, S., Cox, F. J., … & Fullen, B. M. (2025). A pain research strategy for Europe: A European survey and position paper of the European Pain Federation EFIC. European Journal of Pain, 29(1), e4767.
• Graham, S. M., Chokotho, L., Mkandawire, N., Laubscher, M., Maqungo, S., Haonga, B., … & Costa, M. L. (2025). Injury: a neglected global health challenge in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet Global Health, 13(4), e613-e615.
• Giustini, M., Alves, T., Carannante, A., & Papadakaki, M. (2025). Understanding occupational injuries among non-residents in Europe: evidence from the EU-IDB. European Journal of Public Health, 35(Supplement_4).
• Li, Q., Hu, G., & Lee, J. J. (2025). Road traffic injury prevention and control. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1549131.
• Lioliou, S., Backes, V., Habel, U., Morandi, A., Montomoli, C., Papadakaki, M., … & Leitgeb, W. (2025). Mental health assessment in EDs after road traffic injuries: a study protocol. European Journal of Public Health, 35(Supplement_4), ckaf161-495.
• Thorsdottir, S. E., Lauritsen, J. M., & Faergemann, C. (2025). Trends in bicycle related injuries in children 0–9 years of age in an urban Danish population 1980-2023. Injury, 56(6), 112290.

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

• Integration of human driving behaviour in the validation of CCAM systems (CCAM Partnership) HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-04 | Calls for proposals / Opening date: 25 September 2025 | Deadline date: 20 January 2026 | Single-stage. More information HERE
• Predicting and avoiding road crashes based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-14 | Calls for proposals Opening date: 25 September 2025 | Deadline date: 20 January 2026 | Single-stage. More information HERE
• Safety of Cyclists, Pedestrians and Users of Micromobility Devices HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-13 | Calls for proposals / Opening date: 25 September 2025 | Deadline date: 20 January 2026 | Single-stage. More information HERE
   

In case you are preparing a new proposal for funding, feel free to contact us and invite us as partners. We are open to new research ideas and applications in and around our core areas of injury prevention and safety promotion.

Best regards,
Maria Papadakaki and the EUPHA INJ team
LaHeRS & PHC-HMU, Hellenic Mediterranean University