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. Abstracts on any aspect of public health science that are relevant to the UK or Ireland are welcome and do not have to relate to this theme. Successful abstracts will be published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
The deadline for submission for the 2027 conference has passed.
Authors will be notified of decisions on or before Friday 29 January 2027.
For general details please see the call for abstracts here.
Conference fees held at 2026 levels
Standard delegates £199
Public Health speciality trainee (StR) delegates £129
Student delegates £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.