Overarching theme – 25 years: investigation, innovation and implementation
Track 1: prevention
- Innovations in biomedical sciences for new disease prevention strategies
- New product development for disease prevention
- Innovation in implementation of disease prevention for elimination or sustainable control
Track 2: treatment/patient care
- Management of common diseases in remote areas
- Emerging diseases
- Primary health care and minimal curative care
- Specific disease areas including malaria, TB and HIV
- NTDs and NCDs including diabetes, hypertension
- Community diagnosis and care for all disease areas
- Diseases in travellers and migrants
Track 3: One Health and Early Careers
- One Health half-track
- PLEASE NOTE the Early Careers track has changed. This will no longer be abstract driven but will be a day and half of interactive and engaging workshops including: mini hackathons, curated discussions and mentoring. There will be a tick box to register your interest in this on the registration page. Those abstracts previously submitted will still be reviewed and allocated to other relevant tracks.
Track 4: health systems
- Health and policy system development
- Changing health population profiles including resilience to outbreaks, refugees and internally displaced persons,
- Innovations in funding including health insurance, models for health systems in-country, internal and external funding, problems of catastrophic health expenditure
Track 5: age-related healthcare
- Maternal and child health
- Adolescent health
- Elderly and end of life care
Track 6: external factors influencing future health
- Climate change
- The built environment
- Economic factors incorporating health economics
- Populations dynamics incorporating population movement and population growth
- Health and the digital world incorporating data and artificial intelligence
