We are pleased to share that the 2027 UK & Ireland Public Health Science conference will be hosted by the School of Health and Wellbeing at @glasgow.ac.uk, with the support of Head of School Professor Emma McIntosh.
UK & Ireland Public Health Science conference
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A national conference dedicated to new research in Public Health in the UK and Ireland https://ukpublichealthscience.org/
And that’s a wrap for this year! We wish all our delegates a safe journey home and look forward to seeing you again next year in Glasgow - in collaboration with University of Glasgow’s School of Health and Wellbeing. See you in 2027!
Want to know more about the research presented at #UKPHS2026 today?? Read all conference abstracts here 👉 jech.bmj.com/content/80/S... With many thanks to the team at JECH!
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Our oral presentation prize winners (2/2): 3. NHS/LA prize winners: Katherine Todd (best oral presentation) & Zainab Akhter (runner-up) 4. VCSE prize winners: Andrea Burrows (best oral presentation ) & Victoria Nunn (runner-up) Many congratulations to all our prize winners!! 👏👏👏
And these are our oral presentation winners (1/2): 1. ECR prize winners: Paris Lee (best oral presentation) & Ana-Maria Cirstea (runner-up) 2. Lived experience prize winners: Kate Frazer (best oral presentation) & Andrea Mountain (runner-up)
Our poster prize winners (2/2): 3. NHS/LA poster prize winners: Louis Goffe (best poster) & Lisa Nevens (runner-up) 4. VCSE poster prize winners: Sundus Mahdi (best poster) & Lisa Davies (runner-up)
First, our poster prize winners (1/2): 1. ECR poster prize winners: Kirsten Morris (best poster) & Jodi Ventre (runner-up) 2. Lived experience poster prize winners: Lucy Johnson (best poster) & Kate Cowen (runner-up)
Stay tuned for the #UKPHS2026 prize ceremony!! 🏆🏆
Fantastic final session with lots of ideas for how to improve public health policy and practice, including our own workforce diversity! Thanks to all our speakers today who have shared their findings with us and have inspired us to continue to reduce inequalities and improve population health! 👏👏👏
And last but definitely not least, Katherine Todd describes a nurse-led telephone outreach intervention to increase flu vax uptake in 2-3 year olds in West Wales. #UKPHS2026
Genevieve Groom discusses the structural barriers experienced by people from ethnic minority backgrounds when pursuing local authority public health careers: “We have to work twice as hard.” #UKPHS2026
Ali Feizollah used Natural Language Processing analysis of Google reviews of UK dentists to examine socioeconomic inequalities in patient-provider communication - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews do not necessarily equate to feeling listened to!
Next up, Ana-Maria Cîrstea explores community care for South Asian families living with dementia, demonstrating support through socialising, but also how family relationships can get strained when caring roles go against socio-cultural norms. #UKPHS2026
Our third and final session, Implementing PH science in policy and practice, is kicked off by Liam Spencer, who discusses how schools and youth organisations can be supported to prevent and respond to self-harm and suicide by youth #UKPHS2026
Another excellent keynote by our third and final keynote speaker, Professor Nason Maani: “We can’t treat ourselves out of the ill health caused by the social determinants of health.” Read all about it in his new book “A healthier profit” 👉 nasonmaani.substack.com/p/a-healthie...
And Newcastle University. Read about their MPH programme here: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate... Thanks to all our sponsors for their support of our conference!!
Public Health MPH | Postgraduate
Our postgraduate programmes in Public Health offer a broad range of competencies. You'll gain research skills to progress in public health.
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The NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration Newcastle Upon Tyne - sign up for their mailing list here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The NIHR Research Support Service Specialist Centre for Public Health: www.nihr.ac.uk/support-and-...
The Society for Social Medicine - learn more about their work and become a member here 👉 www.socsocmed.org.uk
Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health - access their research briefs here: fuse.ac.uk/research/bri...
And last but definitely not least in this session, Zainab Akhter discusses how food insecurity during pregnancy impacts maternal and infant health - latest from the Food, Pregnancy & Me study! #UKPHS2026
Andrea Burrows on how to go from surplus to sustenance by using surplus food to co-create and cook frozen ready meals distributed via social supermarkets, leading to improved food security and dietary diversity in underserved communities #UKPHS2026
Kat Jackson tells us about lessons learnt from a mobile health bus service offering primary care services to support people experiencing drug and alcohol use related harms #UKPHS2026
Next up, @viva-victoria.bsky.social discusses how she co-designed an NHS–VCSE outcomes framework in North East and North Cumbria to strengthen partnerships between commissioners and the VCSE as a core prevention partner.
Kate Frazer kicks off our second session - New methodological approaches to PH science - by discussing the impact of behavioural choices and systemic racism across the life course on cancer awareness among Irish Travellers. #UKPHS2026
