Single abstract submission
Please read carefully the instructions before you proceed with the submission of your abstract (available at the bottom of this page).
1. General guidelines
All abstracts should be submitted electronically through the abstract submission system only. The deadline for the submission is 1 May 2025, 18:00 CET.
By submitting the abstract you agree and confirm that:
- If your abstract is accepted, you will attend the 18th EPH Conference. To confirm your attendance, you have to register for the conference by 15 July 2025.
- If you have not registered by that date your abstract will not be published in the Abstract Supplement and will be removed from the conference programme.
- Your abstracts contains original material neither published nor presented elsewhere prior to the Conference.
- Your abstract will not be edited. You are responsible for any spelling, grammatical and typographical errors.
Important: if your abstract is included in a workshop proposal, it should NOT be submitted as a single abstract. If submitted, it will be excluded from the review process.
2. Guidelines for type and format of abstracts
We welcome the submission of the following types of abstracts:
Important: research abstracts without results will not be accepted.
3. Types of presentation
You should indicate your first and second presentation preference. The following possibilities are available:
- Oral presentations: 60-minute sessions with 8 minutes per speaker including discussion. There will be 5 speakers.
- Pitch presentations: 60-minute sessions with 8 speakers, 5 minutes with 2-3 minutes discussion, maximum of 5 slides per speaker (without animations), including opening or closing slides.
- Posters: All posters must be submitted in advance to the conference and will be displayed during the conference. The score of the abstract will decide if you are scheduled for:
- E-Poster presentations: 60-minute sessions with a maximum of 15 poster presentations. All posters must be submitted in advance to the conference and will be displayed at E-Poster stations in a designated area. Poster sessions are held as poster walks in the parallel programme, moderated by an expert.
- E-Poster displays: these include a number of posters abstracts not included in the so-called poster walks. These posters are merely displayed on the poster stations during the entire conference but not presented/moderated.
These options are available in descending order (oral-pitch-poster-withdraw). If your first option is oral, the second one might be pitch, poster or withdraw. But when your first option is poster, the second one is withdraw only.
4. Conference topics
In order to have a better understanding on the contents of your abstract, we kindly ask you to choose two topics.
The choices are:
- Economy of well-being and public health
- Cultural diversity and inclusivity in sustainable health
- Public health in the era of infodemic
- Tackling social, political and commercial determinants of health
- Assessment of health impacts and technology: methods and applications
- Chronic diseases, multimorbidity and non-communicable diseases
- Climate change
- Digital health and Artificial Intelligence
- Environment and health / Urban health
- Ethics, Rights and Legal action
- Food, nutrition and diet
- Global health, One Health and Health security
- Health and care workforce
- Health literacy
- Health promotion: investing in health and equity
- Health services and systems research
- Infectious diseases control
- Injury prevention and safety promotion
- Maternal, child and adolescent public health
- Migrant, refugees and ethnic minority health
- Public health epidemiology and genomics
- Public health monitoring, reporting and foresight
- Public health policy and politics
- Public mental health
- Sexual and gender minority health
- Social security, work and health
Please note, the EPH Conference does not allow abstracts:
- from research that received funding by tobacco industry, arms manufacturers, alcohol industry or from partners and commercial contributors whose activities are incompatible with broader public health objectives (Code of Good Practice EPH Conference Foundation).
- exclusively from Institutions in the Russian Federation and/or Belarus. However collaborative research may be submitted and (if accepted) presented by co-authors from other countries.
5. Keywords
You are asked to give three keywords that would best fit the content of your abstract. They are used for programme planning only. Try not to use the words from the above topics you have chosen. Please, use our autocomplete system for first 2 keywords. The 3rd keyword is of your choice.
6. Instructions for authors
Language: All abstracts must be submitted and, if accepted, must be presented in English.
Limit of characters: All abstracts have a limit of 2,000 characters, including spaces. The title, keywords and authors’ information are not included in that limit. All titles have a limit of 100 characters, including spaces. If you exceed the character limit, the system will not accept the abstract.
Graphics or tables: cannot be accepted because of production limitations.
Abstract titles: should be in lower case, except the first word, abbreviations and countries. Do not use capital letters only and avoid using abbreviations or acronyms. Give geographic location and dates if applicable.
Author and co-author: you can include up to 10 co-authors. Follow the instructions carefully and make sure that first name(s) initial(s), last name, department, institution, town and country are completed. To add an author, click on ‘add additional author’. To add an affiliation, click on ‘add additional affiliation’. Please make sure that you use the English version of the institute, town and country. Spell out the full name of the institution and do not use abbreviations such as ‘Univ.’ for ‘University’. Please make sure that the presenting author is also listed under authors.
Presenter: a submitter is a default presenter. You may change the presenter by entering another email. There is a limit of 3 abstracts per one presenter. Make sure that the presenting author is also listed under authors.
Amendments: changes to the abstract are possible until 1 May by re-entering the abstract in your profile.
7. Evaluation procedure
All submitted proposals will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee (ISC). Each proposal will be reviewed by 3 to 4 reviewers and scored on the basis of the following criteria:
- Does the abstract follow the structure/content suggested in the guidelines?
- Is the subject matter appropriate for the Conference?
- Is the information internationally relevant?
- Is it innovative and of importance?
- If applicable, is the design of the study appropriate and clear?
- Is the methodology adequate or sufficient to support conclusions?
- Do data adequately or sufficiently offer support for conclusions?
- Are the results adequately summarised?
- Is the overall quality (coherence, spelling and understanding of the text) of the abstract good?
8. Notification
You will be notified of the acceptance of your abstract(s) by 10 June 2025, and the score will be added in the abstract submission system. This means you will have to log in to find out the decision on your abstract.
Accepted abstracts can be corrected from 10 June until 15 July. After 15 July corrections are no longer possible.
Further instructions for authors whose abstracts are accepted will be posted on the website.
9. Changes in presenting author
The submitter is considered the presenting author and is responsible for delivering either the oral or poster presentation if the abstract is accepted. In case the presenting author is unable to attend the EPH Conference, a substitute presenter may take the presenting author’s place. The new presenter must be listed as co-author on the abstract and must be registered for the Conference.