Registration now open via Hg3 Events.
The organising committee are delighted to announce our new partnership with the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health to present the 2026 UK Public Health Science conference.*
(* Previously known as The Lancet UK Public Health Science conference, typically held in late November.)
Due to an overwhelmingly positive response to the call for abstracts, the conference and pre-conference dinner will now be held at Crowne Plaza hotel to allow more delegates to attend. The hotel is just a few minutes walk from Newcastle Central Station and the Tyne & Wear Metro. The ECR event will be held on the afternoon Monday April 20th at One Strawberry Lane.
A Call for Abstracts is available in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health and successful abstracts will be published in a supplement on the day of the conference.
The conference will be held on TUESDAY APRIL 21st 2026 in NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE in collaboration with Newcastle University and NIHR School of Public Health Research. Keynote speakers will include Claire Bambra, Alice Wiseman, and Nason Maani. A half-day event for early career researchers and public health trainees will take place on Monday April 20th, followed by a pre-conference dinner open to all delegates.
Although we welcome submissions relating to any aspect of public health that is applicable to the UK and Ireland, the theme of this edition of the conference is Research to reality: Implementing public health science in practice and policy. We therefore particularly encourage abstracts that share practical strategies for closing the knowledge-action gap, highlight how contextual experience has informed study design and interpretation, or demonstrate research that has been translated into meaningful action at any scale.
Abstract submission is now closed. Please see our partner conference run by the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health for an alternative opportunity to present your work: hg3.co.uk/ssm/
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