The next UK & Ireland Public Health Science Conference will be hosted by the School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, with the generous support of Professor Emma McIntosh.
The main conference will take place on Tuesday 20 April 2027, with a half-day event for early career researchers on the afternoon of Monday 19 April 2027. All conference events will be held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow city centre.
The 2027 conference theme is Embedding evidence and enabling change: improving health and wellbeing through policy and practice. Successful abstracts will be published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Keynote Speakers
Kimberley Hose – Glasgow City Council
Kimberley Hose is Head of Business Intelligence at Glasgow City Council, leading work to embed evidence-informed decision-making, transform services and improve outcomes for Glasgow. A champion of public-sector data sharing, she also leads the Council’s NIHR-funded Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Glasgow, supporting greater use of data, research and evidence in decision-making, policies and interventions that address the wider determinants of health and reduce health inequalities.
Kat Smith – University of Strathclyde
Kat Smith is Professor of Public Health Policy at Strathclyde, where she co-leads its Centre for Health Policy and helped establish the Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU), which is funded by The Health Foundation. She also currently leads a Chief Scientist Office-funded Health–Justice Nexus programme. Her co-authored books, The Unequal Pandemic and Getting Better: The Policy & Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities, both won the Social Policy Association’s Richard Titmuss Book Award. Her commitment to strengthening and democratising evidence use underpins her broader research contributions to the UKRI THRIVING Food Futures Hub, PHI-UK’s Enhancing Policy Modelling for Health cluster, and the ESRC Equalise Centre.
Abstract submission has closed.
Authors will be notified by Friday 29 January 2027.
The programme will be published soon.
Registration will open in early 2027.
Conference fees held at 2026 levels
Standard £199
Public Health speciality trainees (StR) £129
Students £99
Pre-conference early career researcher event £15
Dublin 2028
University College Dublin will host the 2028 edition of the conference. The conference will be chaired by Dr Celine Murrin, Associate Professor in Public Health Nutrition at the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy, and Sports Science.
About the conference
The UK & Ireland Public Health Science conference is an annual conference dedicated to science relevant to public health research, practice, and policy in the UK and Ireland. It aims to showcase the diversity, quality and impact of public health science, and to connect public health researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.
More photographs from the 2026 event are available from TyneSight.