18th EPH Conference - Helsinki 2025

Plenary session - Wednesday 12th Nov

	Time (UTC+02:00) / Location	Track	Organiser Abbreviations	Activity
	Wed 12^th 11:45-12:45 Finlandia hall		EPH Conference	OC - Opening Ceremony: Investing for sustainable health and well-being
	Moderator: Ilmo Keskimäki, Chair of the 18^th EPH Conference 2025 Anu Partanen, journalist, author of The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life Speakers/Panellists: Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe Veli-Mikko Niemi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Sandra Gallina, Director General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
	Wed 12^th 14:00-15:00 Finlandia hall		European Commission	PL1 - Plenary 1: Transforming economies for planetary health and well-being Abstracts in EJPH
	Moderators: Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom Keynote speaker: Sandra Gallina, Director General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission Speakers/Panellists: Francesca Colombo, Head of the Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Fidelia Cascini, Digital health expert, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Rui Santos Ivo, Chair of the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency (EMA)
	Wed 12^th 18:00-19:00 Finlandia hall		EUPHA	PL2 - Plenary 2: Public health in the era of misinformation and disinformation Abstracts in EJPH
	Moderators: Charlotte Marchandise, Executive Director EUPHA Alexandra Frețian, Researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Health Literacy Unit, Germany Domitilla Marconi, EUPHAnxt Talent Manager Speakers/Panellists: Götz Gottschalk, Head of Health, YouTube DE (Google) & Strategy & Operations Lead, YouTube Health EMEA (Google) Seema Yasmin, Emmy Award-winning journalist, Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine, Stanford University, United States Sanna Vesikansa, Crisis Services MIELI Mental Health, Finland Monika Kosinska, Cross-Cutting Lead Economic and Commercial Determinants of Health, World Health Organization

Plenary session - Thursday 13th Nov

	Time (UTC+02:00) / Location	Track	Organiser Abbreviations	Activity
	Thu 13^th 10:30-11:30 Finlandia hall		WHO Regional Office for Europe	PL3 - 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 Abstracts in EJPH
	Moderator: Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Director of Health Systems, WHO Regional Office for Europe Sophie Eicher, EUPHAnxt Speakers/Panellists: Ledia Lazëri, Regional Adviser for Mental Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe Ian Power, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UCD, Ireland Marta Puciłowska-Schielmann, Vice president, Institute of Digital Citizenship, Poland Marie Paldam Folker, Director Centre for Digital Psychiatry, Denmark Silja Kosola, Research Director, Adolescent Mental Health, University of Helsinki, Finland Ewout van Ginneken, Director European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
	Thu 13^th 14:00-15:00 Finlandia hall		EuroHealthNet	PL4 - Plenary 4: Tackling political and commercial determinants through policy and governance Abstracts in EJPH
	Moderator: Caroline Costongs, Director EuroHealthNet Speakers/Panellists: Sandro Galea, Dean of the School of Public Health, Washington University, United States Anna Gilmore, Professor of Public Health, Director of the Tobacco Research Group, University of Bath, United Kingdom Aki Lindén, Member of Parliament, Finland Mika Salminen, Director-General Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland Dóra Gudrún Gudmundsdóttir, Director Public Health, Directorate of Health, Iceland

Plenary session - Friday 14th Nov

	Time (UTC+02:00) / Location	Track	Organiser Abbreviations	Activity
	Fri 14^th 10:30-11:30 Finlandia hall		ASPHER, EHMA, Observatory	PL5 - Plenary 5: Investing in the health workforce to build sustainable health systems Abstracts in EJPH
	Moderator: Matthias Wismar, Programme Manager, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Speakers/Panellists: Henrique Barros, President ASPHER, and Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal Petronille Bogaert, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), European Commission Federica Margheri, Executive Director, European Health Management Association (EHMA) Marius-Ionuț Ungureanu, Chair of the Department of Public Health, School of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania Gemma Williams, Research Fellow, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
	Fri 14^th 15:15-16:00 Finlandia hall		EPH Conference	CC - Closing Ceremony of the 18th European Public Health Conference
	Moderator: Ilmo Keskimäki, Chair of the 18^th EPH Conference 2025 Speakers: Idil Hussein, Senior Planning Officer, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) Alastair Leyland, Director NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Award Ceremony: Best Poster, Best Abstract, Ference Bojan Award Iveta Nagyova, President European Public Health Conference Foundation Welcome to the 19th EPH Conference 2026, Bilbao, Spain Manuel Franco, Chair of the 19th EPH Conference 2026