The 16th European Public Health Conference, organised by the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), will take place from 9 to 11 November 2023, with pre-conferences organised on 8 November. The conference will be held at the Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland. Complete information about the congress is available via https://ephconference.eu/.
During the conference, our COST Action will contribute to live workshops on burden of disease assessment. There will also be several abstract and poster presentations on burden of disease by our network members. Below you will find an overview of the different burden of disease sessions planned at the 16th European Public Health Conference.
Burden of disease workshops and skills building seminars
| Workshop: Data, tools and methodologies on injury burden in Europe: current limitations and future directions Fri 10/11, 15h10-16h10 |
| A new Norwegian Injury Registration System as a starting point to assess the burden of injuries in Norway — Johan Lund, NIPH, Norway |
| Barriers in the implementation of burden of disease estimates in Belgium and potential solutions — Robby De Pauw, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Data collection and analysis on the burden of injuries: Lessons learned from the IDB network — Robert Bauer, Austria |
| Methodological challenges in collecting and analysing data on child unintentional injuries: Insights from the CHILD Vigilance project (CHIVI) on parents’ attitudes and practices — Tatiana Alves, Portugal |
| Workshop: Projecting future burden of disease for informed public health decision making Sat 11/11, 11h40-12h40 |
| Disease burden in Norway in 2050: A forecasting analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study — Ann Kristin Knudsen, NIPH, Norway |
| Future Dutch DALYs as part of the Dutch Public health Foresight Study — Henk Hilderink, RIVM, Netherlands |
| Forecasting the future burden of disease in Scotland — Ian Grant, Public Health Scotland, UK |
| Disease burden in Belgium in 2040: Methodological considerations — Robby De Pauw, Sciensano, Belgium |
| Workshop: Risk-benefit assessment of foods and diets for a sustainable future Sat 11/11, 14h00-15h00 |
| Risk-benefit assessment of foods – status, challenges, and opportunities — Sofie Theresa Thomsen, DTU, Denmark |
| Holistic approaches for risk-benefit assessment — Constanza De Matteu Monteiro, DTU, Denmark |
| Exploring subjective risk-benefit perception as an integral component in risk communication — Mark Lohmann, BfR, Germany |
| The World Health Organization endeavours to put forward integrated approaches to food and diet risk-benefit assessment — Moez Sanaa, World Health Organization, Switzerland |
Burden of disease abstract presentations
| Thursday 9 November 2023 | ||
| 9h00–10h00 | 1.E. - Oral presentations: Air pollution | Local approach to attributable disease burden: case study for air pollution and mortality in Belgium Arno Pauwels - Belgium |
| 10h30–11h30 | 2.E. - Workshop: Salutogenic Cities: European experiences in Urban Health | The urban burden of disease estimation for policy-making in 1000 European cities Vlatka Matkovic - Belgium |
| 10h30–11h30 | 2.R. - Poster walk: Chronic diseases | The burden of breast cancer attributable to modifiable risk factors Jovana Todorovic - Serbia |
| 10h30–11h30 | 2.R. - Poster walk: Chronic diseases | Assessing and projecting the burden of diabetes mellitus in the European Union by 2030 Nour Mahrouseh - Hungary |
| 16h40–17h40 | 4.E. - Pitch presentations: Environment and health | The burden of ischemic stroke due to air pollution in ten European countries Katarina Vojvodic - Serbia |
| Friday 10 November 2023 | ||
| 11h40–12h40 | 6.D. - Pitch presentations: The burden of chronic diseases | Subnational inequalities in YLLs and associated socioeconomic factors: a disease burden study Carl Baravelli - Norway |
| 11h40–12h40 | 6.R. - Poster walk: Epidemiology | Sex differences in disease burden in Norway: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Ingeborg Forthun - Norway |
| 11h40–12h40 | 6.R. - Poster walk: Epidemiology | Mortality burden due to COVID-19 in 14 countries or regions in Southeastern Europe and Central Asia Caoimhe Cawley - Germany |
| 15h10–16h10 | 7.R. - Poster walk: Epidemiology 2 | Burden of dementia, chronic kidney and cardiovascular diseases attributable to hypertension in France Clemence Grave - France |
| 15h10–16h10 | 7.R. - Poster walk: Epidemiology 2 | The burden of cardiovascular disease associated with PM2.5 exposure in the Portuguese population Carla Martins - Portugal |
| Saturday 11 November 2023 | ||
| 9h00–10h00 | 9.A. - Pitch presentations: Healthy diets | The burden of dietary risk factors in the Nordic and Baltic countries Ann Kristin Knudsen - Norway |
| 11h40–12h40 | 10.D. - Oral presentations: Prevention and management of chronic diseases | Burden of T1DM and T2DM among adolescents in Western Europe, 1990-2019: results from the GBD 2019 Benedetta Armocida - Italy |
| 11h40–12h40 | 10.L. - Oral presentations: Understanding population health | Estimating the burden of Long COVID symptom clusters in Ireland Tochukwu Igboanugo - Ireland |
| 13h50–14h50 | 11.O. - Oral presentations: Child and adolescent health | Quantifying the environmental burden of disease for children and adolescents in Germany Dietrich Plass - Germany |
