EPH Conference

Season’s greetings from the European Public Health Conference 🎄✨

Thank you to our delegates, speakers, partners, volunteers, and the wider public health community for an inspiring 2025.

We’ll be back soon—already shaping #EPH2026 in Bilbao.

Celebrating excellence at #EPH2025 🎉

🏆 Ferenc Bojan Young Investigator: Anaïs Hasenböhler
🥇 Highest scoring abstract: Brian Beach
🖼️ Best poster: Karolina Airapetian

Congratulations to all — your work drives public health forward. #PublicHealth #ResearchExcellence #YoungResearchers

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🔍 Last week at #EPH2025 our plenary took on the influential roles of commercial & political determinants in #PublicHealth.

📢 The current system allows profit at the cost of our health & wellbeing. We need different sectors to collectively call for a #WellbeingEconomy.

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From access & prevention to reform & resilience, today’s #EPH2025 sessions showed that #publichealth is inseparable from the systems that sustain it.​

🎥Watch Astrid reflect on some of the discussions today and the #healthsystems perspective #OBSatEPH

🎬 From challenge to change — the opening video of the 18th EPH Conference set the scene for investing in sustainable health and well-being.

Watch here ⬇️
🔗 youtu.be/0UKFfmIb6Mc

#EPH2025 #PublicHealth #InvestInHealth

Thanks for sharing — we’re glad to see this conversation taking place at #EPH2025.

📢 New Eurohealth issue for #EPH2025 is out.

It explores how investing in health can strengthen equity, resilience & sustainability across Europe — from planetary health and youth mental health to dis/misinformation and digital skills.

Read: eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...

The #EPH2025 App is live! Browse the full programme, build your schedule, read abstracts, connect with delegates, and vote for posters!

Used the App before? Just open it and select EPH Conference 2025.

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​How can investment in health drive equity, resilience & sustainability across Europe? This special @ephconference.bsky.social #EPH2025 issue features articles on:​

🌍Planetary health​
🧠Youth #mentalhealth​
💬#Disinformation​
⚙️Digital skills... and more!

💬 What to expect
This session will explore how investing in, supporting, and upskilling the health workforce underpins sustainable, equitable systems — from digital literacy and social dialogue to better working conditions and long-term resilience.

🎙 Speakers
Henrique Barros, President, ASPHER
Petronille Bogaert, Directorate-General for Health & Food Safety (DG SANTE)
Federica Margheri, Executive Director, EHMA
Marius Ungureanu, Chair, Dept of Public Health, Babeș-Bolyai University
Gemma Williams, Research Fellow, @obshealth.bsky.social

🎤 Moderator
@matthiaswismar.bsky.social, Programme Manager, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

🏥 Plenary 5: Investing in the health workforce

📅 Friday 14 November | 10:30 – 11:30

At #EPH2025, this plenary — organised by EHMA, @obshealth.bsky.social, & ASPHER — will explore how strategic investment in the health and care workforce underpins sustainable, resilient health systems.

📢 Heading to #EPH2025 in Helsinki next week?

Let your colleagues know you’ll be there!

Use our social media toolkit to:
✅ Highlight your participation
✅ Showcase your work
✅ Connect with others attending

👉 Download it now and share your #EPH2025 story!
ephconference.eu/ephconferenc...

The #EPH2025 Conference Supplement is out!

Abstracts from the 18th European Public Health Conference are now published in the European Journal of Public Health.

📖 Read the supplement: academic.oup.com/eurpub/issue...

#EUPHA #PublicHealth #Research #EJPH

💬 What to expect
This session unpacks how political agendas, corporate interests & governance shape health. It highlights power–profit feedback loops, tech & social media’s role, and how accountable systems can drive health equity.

👥 Panellists
Andras Kulja MD, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Mika Salminen, Director-General, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Dora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, Director Public Health, Directorate of Health, Iceland

🎤 Moderator
Caroline Costongs, Director, EuroHealthNet

🎙 Keynote speakers
Sandro Galea, Dean of the School of Public Health, University of Washington, United States (online)
Anna Gilmore, Professor of Public Health, Director of the Tobacco Research Group, University of Bath, United Kingdom

🏛 Plenary 4: Tackling political & commercial determinants of health

📅Thu 13 Nov | 14:00–15:00

At #EPH2025, this session — by @eurohealthnet.bsky.social — explores how lobbying, corporate power & politics shape health, and how to build more transparent, equitable governance.

🌟 European Public Health Conference 2025 is almost here!

If you’re planning your programme, don’t miss the lunch symposiums — informal, in-depth sessions open to all delegates (no registration needed).

👉 ephconference.eu/2025-lunch-s...

#EPH2025 #PublicHealth #Networking #LunchSymposium

💬 What to expect
This session will unpack key outcomes from the Paris youth mental health meeting, spotlighting digital determinants and why cross-sectoral action is vital to protect young people’s well-being and strengthen Europe’s economies.

#PublicHealth #MentalHealth #YouthHealth #HealthSystems

👥 Speakers
Ledia Lazëri, WHO Regional Office Europe
Ian Power, Advisor to the Minister for Mental Health, Ireland
Marta Puciłowska-Schielmann, Institute of Digital Citizenship
Marie Paldam Folker, Center for Digital Psychiatry
Silja Kosola, Uni of Helsinki
Ewout van Ginneken, @obshealth.bsky.social

At #EPH2025, this plenary — organised by WHO Regional Office for Europe — will spotlight the urgent mental health challenges facing young people across Europe.

🎤 Moderators
Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Sophie Eicher, EUPHAnxt

🧠 Plenary 3: Advancing mental health in all policies to promote and protect youth mental health and well-being: a cross sectoral imperative for Europe's youth and economy

📅 13 Nov | 10:30–11:30 (Helsinki time)

👉 Registration for pre-conferences remains open. These smaller, focused sessions are a great way to dive deeper into key public health topics and connect with peers. Find out more: ephconference.eu/2025-pre-con...

🎉 EPH 2025 is officially at capacity

We’re delighted to share that registration for 2025 is now closed. With 3,000 delegates joining us in Helsinki next month, this year’s event will be a vibrant gathering of Europe’s public health community.

Thank you to everyone who registered.

This session will:
🟢 Unpack controversy, misinformation & distortion
🟢 Explore how empathy & narratives can rebuild trust
🟢 Expose the societal cost of disinvestment
🟢 Call for bold EU leadership & proactive comms

👥 Panellists
Götz Gottschalk, MBA, Head of Health, YouTube DE & Strategy & Operations Lead, YouTube Health EMEA
Seema Yasmin, Emmy Award-winning journalist; Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine, Stanford University (video contribution)
Sanna Vesikansa, Crisis Services, MIELI Mental Health Finland

🎤 Moderators

@charlottemar.bsky.social, Executive Director, EUPHA
@orkanokan.bsky.social, President of EUPHA's Health Literacy Section; Professor of Health Literacy, Technical University of Munich; Head, WHO Collaborating Center for Health Literacy
Domitilla Marconi, EUPHAnxt

🧠 Plenary 2: Public health in the era of misinformation and disinformation

At #EPH2025, this plenary — organised by @eupha.bsky.social — is a wake-up call to Europe’s public health community. It will tackle not just mis- and disinformation but the erosion of trust, funding, & democratic support.