International Law and Global Treaties in Public Health

Speakers:

• Prof. Gorik Ooms. Professor, Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
• Dr. Precious Matsoso. Director of the Health Regulatory Science Platform, a division of the Wits Health Consortium
• Ms. Fatima Hassan. Director: Health Justice Initiative (HJI) South Africa
• Prof. Flavia Senkubuge. Dean and Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

A Legacy of Learning: Celebrating the Anniversary of Public Health Schools Worldwide

This session celebrates the milestone anniversaries of public health schools around the world, reflecting on decades of education, research and leadership in training the global public health workforce. 

Primary Health Care, Public Health Systems for Equity and Universal Access

Speakers:

• Prof. Tasleem Ras. Head of Department: Family, Community and Emergency Care (FaCE). Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
• Prof Aylene Bousquat. Department of Politics, Management and Health at the Faculty of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP) - Brazil

Public Health in Conflict, War and Peace Building

Speakers:

• Prof. Amira Osman. Associate professor in architecture at the University of Johannesburg
• Dr Anna Mutavati. Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa at UN Women
• Dr. Sally Wambui Ndung'u. Kenya Association of Physicians and Medical Workers for Social Responsibility
• Dr. Samah El-Boraei. South African Healthcare workers for Palestine and the Healthcare Workers against xenophobia

AFPHA: Celebrating Impact, Building the Future

Political Leadership for Integrated Financing of Social and Behavior Change in African Health Systems: A Call to Action

Chair: Dr. Priscilla Madzinga-Kusena, Head: Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Advocacy, Africa CDC Headquarters, Ethiopia

Speakers:

• Dr. Yusupha Touray, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, The Gambia
• Dr. A. J. V. Maunganidze, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe
• Dr. Dan Namarika, Secretary Health and Sanitation, Ministry of Health, Malawi
• Mme Dr Francine Inarukundo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget and Digital Economy, Burundi
• Mr. Shoaib Salim Mansour Shoaib, Financial Controller, Ministry of Health, Libya
• Dr. Ken Limwame, SBC and Advocacy Specialist, Africa CDC Headquarters, Ethiopia

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WFPHA Award Ceremony

A celebration recognising outstanding contributions to global public health by individuals and organisations across the WFPHA network and beyond. 

The President's Workshop: The Asia Pacific Public Health Network: History, Present Status and Future Opportunities

This session showcases the history, current status and future opportunities of the Asia Pacific Public Health Network, with presentations on CPMA's role as Secretariat, the One Health agenda, and the contribution of Australia's public health community. 

Speakers: B. Li, R. Bedi, T. Weeramanthri

Climate Change and Health Adaptation: China's Practice

Speakers: M. Ren, T. Li, L. Wang, T. Zhang, B. Li, F. Yang, R. Bedi

Closing the Prevention Gap through Adult HPV Vaccination: From a Women-Only Narrative to Universal Cancer Prevention

Chair: Prof. Bettina Borisch, CEO, World Federation of Public Health Associations

Speakers:

• Mr. Peter Baker, Chief Executive, Global Action on Men's Health
• Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
• Dr. Luyanda Majija, Strategic Advisor Africa, Global Alliance for Patient Access

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Right Health Foundations First: Public Health and Primary Health Care

Speakers: T. Naledi, L. Bayeni, N. Kapologwe, A. Mahomva, F. Senkubuge, S. Kariem, S. Moodley

The Decolonisation of (Oral) Health

Speakers: N. Rampersad, K. Ramphoma, P. Motloba, T. Naledi, Y. Makino, V. Yengopal, M. Mcuba, H. Benzian

From Theory to Practice: Cost-Effective Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Education for Global Public Health Curricula

Speakers: J. Kumawat, K. Conyard, S. Mohite, M. Codd

Strengthening public health advocacy through international collaboration - insights from a collaboration between south africa and united kingdom public health professional institutions

Speakers: L. Makurah, A. Mosam, F. Ogunlayi, V. Joseph

Climate and Health 101 : Strengthening public health capacity to respond to climate change

Speakers: R. Govender, H. Somaroo

Community Engaged Research (CER): Igniting the Flame

Speakers: H. Haricharan, N. Kannemeyer, C. Jansen, K. Marian

Prioritising indoor air quality - a landmark public health opportunity

Speakers: B. King, G. Lagoudas

Making sense of the "national" in National Health Insurance

Speakers: H. Somaroo

Determinants of snake-human conflict, based on the ICMR funded National Task Force pan-India study on the incidence, mortality , morbidity and socioeconomic burden of snakebite

Speakers: J. Menon

Health workforce retention in First Referral Hospitals of Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda: Implications for equitable and sustainable health systems

Speakers: L. Rispel, R. Tweheyo, V. Kagonya, Y. Zhao, D. Evans, M. English

Criminalisation of LGBTQI+ populations as a public health issue: Policy options for WFPHA and members

Speakers: D. Patterson, B. Borisch, F. Robards

Financing public health under constraint: a facilitated roundtable on equity and resilience

Speakers: S. Gobin, L. Hehman

From Gaps to Gains: Coordinated Implementation Research for Public Health

Speakers: M. Cerf, K. Ramphona, A. Bousquat, M. Asnake, G. Aslanyan

Why is Health Underrepresented in International Forums on Chemical Risk Management? Increasing Health Professionals' Role in Chemical Risk Prevention

Speakers: H. Rother, L. Albornoz, B. Ghassemi, R. Euripidou, N. Munyinda, D. Ngajilo, P. Orris, F. Schultze, O. Speranskaya, S. Wilburn, K. Williams, S. Whitelocke-Ballingsingh

Academia, Public Health, and the Challenges of the Current Environment

Speakers: L. Magaña, K. Rasar, R. Lyn, G. Crawford

Chemicals and Climate Change Nexus - Health Professionals' Role in Interventions and Risk Prevention

Speakers: H. Rother, S. Kovats, R. EUripidou, H. Cole, R. Duarte-Davidson

Assessing Resident Trauma: Evaluating Trauma Informed Practices in Nursing Homes

Speakers: D. Hodge, D. DeLellis, D. Lewis-Kopka, D. Salloum

Men's health - a con or a real concern? The case for a new global public health policy approach

Speakers: P. Baker, J. Smith, D. Naidoo, R. Bonney, C. Colvin, A. Manyuchi, D. Griffith

Gender, Power, and Governance: Reimagining Women's Leadership in Global Health

Speakers: V. HuLamm, F. Senkubuge

My mind is not the same: Cognitive complaints during the menopausal transition in Urban South Africa

Speakers: S. matina

Walking in Two Worlds: Indigenous Knowledges and Public Health Research in Australia

Speakers: C. Ryder, J. Coombes

Early Action for Equitable Health: Anticipatory, Multisectoral Responses for Populations on the Move

Speakers: A. Pedot, F. Castellana

Strengthening AMR Governance and Promoting Equity through One Health: A Civil Society Dialogue

Speakers: H. Hamza, F. Castellana, K. Urbáez

Policy advocacy training for health professionals in Africa on health and climate change in preparation for the 32nd Conference of Parties in Ethiopia 2027.

Speakers: L. Alqodmani, J. Karliner, M. Phomane, F. Phiri, T. Kapwata, S. Patrick

Strengthening collaboration for public health action: equity, inclusion and sustainability in an age of populism and fragmentation

Speakers: A. McCallum, A. Bauernfeind, M. Koivusalo, A. Magid, H. Lopes, M. Codd, C. Cunningham, F. ASPHER, M. Green, B. Wong

The Future in our hands: Idea Lab to Sustain and Evolve the ASPHER Core Curriculum Programme

Speakers: K. Conyard, S. Levesque, J. Kumawat, S. Mohite, M. Codd

Reframing Tobacco Control in Africa: Inequality, Industry Power, and Policy Innovation

Speakers: O. Ayo-Yusuf, A. Marume, Z. Chisha, W. Olwal, B. Edziwa

Ensuring quality health services for UHC: South Africa's National Health Insurance framework for Accreditation

Speakers: A. Juggernath, G. Labadarios, V. Essel, S. Moosa

Multi-sectoral Partnerships to Address Gendered Workplace Violence Against Health Workers in Cape Town: Lessons for Health System Strengthening

Speakers: B. Nfurayase, V. Mjijelwa, N. Dyantyi, T. Mpazwa, Y. Mentese, J. Kruger, A. George

World Cafe: Strengthening health sector governance and equity in plural health systems through community participation

Speakers: Z. Khan, H. Jensen, T. Boulle, R. Jagajeevan, V. Rao, P. Schattan

The health system as a gateway to strengthening systems of l support for women and children in the first 1000 days

Speakers: W. Slemming, E. Ilhan, M. Orgill

Queering health policy and systems: Dialogues for integrating sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender diverse and non-conforming, sexual dissident lived experiences into health policy and systems for universal inclusivity and justice in public health

Speakers: A. George, E. Kismodi, P. Oware, H. Ndondo

Global sodium reduction policies: current strategies and opportunities for population-level cardiovascular risk reduction

Speakers: N. Dantas, E. Nilson, K. Trieu, M. Land, M. Hu, B. Neal

Retail Food Environments in Southern Africa - An epidemic without borders

Speakers: R. Swart, T. Frank, L. Kaale, T. Matsungo, A. Erzse

Addressing Gendered Workplace Violence Experienced by the Primary Healthcare Workforce: A Qualitative Policy Analysis across Burkina Faso, Tanzania, and South Africa

Speakers: S. Munshi, L. Kiswaga, I. Mashasi, N. Konsebo, A. Zongo, T. Ouoba, T. Jacobs, B. Nfurayase, C. Callery, O. Odumosu, J. Riha, S. Mtenga, A. George

Trust, Information Integrity, and Emergency preparedness: From Infodemics to Brokering Trust in an era of Polycrisis

Speakers: S. Mandić-Rajčević, S. Hilberts, M. Govers, K. Vagionaki, E. Petelos, M. Papadakaki

Researching the Commercial Determinants of Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Generating Evidence for Advocacy and Policy, and Action

Speakers: A. Singh, N. Maani, M. Ng'oda, J. Collin

Contextualising the Planetary Health Diet: Stories of Progress from the African region

Speakers: S. Bajaj, R. Alessandrini, A. Harding, M. Massarenti, P. Nhlapo, E. Wright, N. Wyma

From Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Ensuring Equity in Global Public Health Collaborations

Speakers: S. Mackinnon, M. Hunter, E. Badr, I. Emelurumonye, F. Ogunlayi

An enabling context for Participatory Action Research: P(p)olitics, funding and whose knowledge is valued

Speakers: R. Vincent, H. van der Westhuizen, G. Black, R. Loewenson, S. Molyneux

Lessons in organizing and scaling up mentorship as workplace -based support in health systems. Authors: SA Learning Alliance for District Health systems (SALAD):

Speakers: T. Assegaai, B. Engelbrecht, L. Gilson, K. Vallabhjee, K. Segwaii, R. Morar

Improving evaluation and surveillance of non-smoking chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Speakers: T. Yang, K. Huang, Y. Cui, W. Li, T. Huang, X. Tang

Improving health system responsiveness to patients in First Referral Hospitals of Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda

Speakers: L. Rispel, R. Tweheyo, V. Kagonya, Y. Zhao, M. English

The influence of informal food businesses on food choices and economic dynamics in South African townships

Speakers: Z. Mchiza, T. Mashiane, S. Mabhida, D. Sekgala, J. Hill, B. Esterhuizen, H. Nonkeneza, A. Wentzel, N. Holliday, C. Klinger, E. Okanmelu, P. von Philipsborn, P. Delobelle, E. Rehfuess, O. Alaba, E. Lambert

Transcending Health Borders: A Global Community of Practice for Integrated Multimorbidity Care

Speakers: S. Pati, S. Reddy, B. Nunes, V. Ramokolo, A. Hussain, A. Mamun, J. Kshatri

Co-designing Solutions to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity for Migrant and Refugee Populations

Speakers: Z. Lassi, Z. Padhani, N. Damabi, P. Castleton, C. Shabbir, E. Yisma

A Cross-Region Agenda for Public Health Diplomacy

Speakers: A. Joshi, R. Kalėdienė, P. Barach

Strengthening Integrated Community-Centred Municipal Strategies for Water-Related Public Health under Climate and Infrastructure Stress in South Africa

Speakers: E. Ubomba-Jaswa, C. Nnadozie, A. Abrams, M. von Fintel, P. Melariri

There is Nothing "Natural" about these Disasters: The Need for a Decolonial and Harm Reduction Approach in the times of Climate Crisis

Speakers: T. Melgarejo

Self-reported pesticide exposure and male reproductive development among boys in rural Western Cape, South Africa

Speakers: W. Basera, M. Roosli, M. Dalvie

Biodiversity, Human Health and Nature-Based Solutions

Speakers: S. Rao

Beyond the Ethics Checkbox : Operationalizing Trauma-Informed Research Ethics (TIRE) Within Research Ecosystems to Support Researcher and Participant Wellbeing Across the Research Lifecycle through Decolonial and Feminist Principles.

Speakers: K. Govender, T. Sam, H. Tabana, V. Mjijelwa, B. Nfuyurase, S. Munshi, T. Jacobs, A. George, P. Oware

A portrait of social participation in defending the right to healthy aging at the National Conference on the Rights of Older Persons

Speakers: F. Damasio Passos

Efficacy of activated carbon for ammonia gas reduction in selected poultry farms in Ido Local Government Area, Ibadan, Oyo State

Speakers: J. Shaibu

From vulnerability mapping to action: artificial intelligence and geospatial methods for urban heat resilience

Speakers: C. Parker, G. Sandve, B. Sandvik, S. Makhanya, S. Zermatten-Jack, N. Lalloo, D. Devantier, N. Brink, G. Cissé, C. Jack, M. Chersich, S. Omar

Climate & Health 101: Foundations for Public Health Action in a Warming World

Speakers: A. Rangunwala, S. Narayan

How to effectively co-create complex interventions for dual benefits of climate change and health?

Speakers: N. Khan, A. Maharani, S. Sujarwoto

Carbon footprinting and action planning for Health professionals

Speakers: A. Rangunwala, S. Thakur

Who Decides Health? A Live Global Governance Lab

Speakers: P. Johnson

Oral health in South Africa: constitutional commitments, systemic neglect, and the limits of progress

Speakers: H. Benzian, B. Vava, S. Naidoo, R. Rensburg

Digital Health & AI 

Chairs: S. Dlamini; E. Asempah

1. Using mHealth for gestational diabetes management: Insights from a long-term real-world multisite evaluation  —  M. Varnfield 
2. Co creating an integrated e Health Intervention to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reduce NCD Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Rural South Africa  —  S. Kallakuri 
3. Factors associated with risky online behaviour and lifetime online victimization among children and adolescents in Juba: A Cross-Sectional Analysis  —  M. Hollington 
4. Young men’s sports betting in Australia: Smartphones, digitisation, and domestic gambling  —  R. Irving 
5. Mapping Global Cybersecurity Policies in Healthcare in WHO Member States and their alignment to the WHO Digital Strategy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the WHO Health Systems Frameworks.  —  V. Ncube 

Climate Change & One Health 

Chairs: B. Jani; C. Himabala

1. Through their lens: A photovoice study exploring pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences, coping strategies and barriers to heat adaptation in an urban township in South Africa  —  I. Solarin 
2. Effect of climate change on indigenous mental well-being from a one health perspective using a mixed methods approach  —  K. Bhatta 
3. Comparative assessment of PM₂.₅ and carcinogenic trace elements across four South African sampling sites  —  J. Wichmann 
4. The Association of Joint Effects of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease Hospital Admissions in Cape Town: 2011- 2016  —  M. Nunu 
5. Land Surface Temperatures at Different Time Points in Pregnancy and Their Impact on Birth Outcomes within the Mother and Child in the Environment Birth Cohort in Durban, South Africa  —  J. Cassim 

Mental Health 

Chairs: C. Batista; L. Nyanhongo

1. Islamophobia and discrimination: Did it differ between Muslim and non-Muslim healthcare professionals in Australia?  —  M. Rahman 
2. The association of asylum, health and trauma-relate d factors with suicidal ideation among newly arrived asylum seekers in Finland  —  L. Somersalo-Cavén 
3. “A place where you never have to be afraid of who you are”: An intersectional analysis of university students' experiences of discrimination during their studies  —  L.F. Pilz Gonzalez 
4. Mediating Effect of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship Between Perceived Social Support and Resilience among Cape Town-based Sexually and Gender-Diverse People  —  T. Chisirimunhu 
5. Kuyeka!: An Open Pilot of a Smoking Cessation and TB Treated Adherence Intervention for People Living with HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa  —  T. Mautsa 

Non-Communicable Diseases 

Chairs: P. Piotie; R. Swart

1. Adverse pregnancy outcomes among adolescent mothers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa  —  M. Sekgala 
2. Silent doctors, invisible patients: Systemic barriers to cancer screening in 835 patients with severe mental disorders in rural Turkey  —  T. Telatar 
3. Prevalence and factors associated with metabolically unhealthy normal weight among adult Ghanaian migrants in Europe and non-migrants in Ghana: The RODAM study  —  B. Semagn 
4. Disability AND Cancer Diagnosis Following AN Emergency Presentation: a Systematic Review AND Meta-analysis  —  R. Cuciniello 
5. Oral health and its association with limitations on basic activities of daily living among older adults in Brazil  —  F. Bof de Andrade 

Health Systems 

Chairs: P. Piotie; R. Swart

1. “They need to feel at home not in a home.” Experiences of residents and carers in mental health residential facilities: In-depth case studies from the Sedibeng district, South Africa  —  S. Mhlanga 
2. Health Systems Performance Monitoring of Mental Health Services in South Africa Using Routine Public Sector Data  —  N. Blose 
3. Exploring perceptions, experiences, and components of family based interventions for people living with severe mental illness: A global qualitative evidence synthesis  —  N. Sikhosana 
4. Effects of Continuity of Care on Avoidable Hospitalization in Hypertensive Patients: A Retrospective Analysis in High-altitudes of China  —  J. Chen 
5. Expanding public access to chronic medication in South Africa through community-based pick-up points: A decade of scaling the central chronic medicines dispensing and distribution programme  —  N. Ramdas 

Health Determinants & Equity 

Chairs: A. Quissico; M. Puig-García

1. Racism in nursing: the racialization and commodification of internationally recruited nurses in German healthcare  —  T. Gangarova 
2. Oral Health Conditions, Self-Perception and Quality of Life Among Older Quilombola Adults in Northeastern Brazil  —  R. Moreira 
3. After health literacy: towards a socio-structural understanding of gender-specific determinants of colorectal cancer screening non-participation  —  C. Kang 
4. Racism, Neoliberalism, and Healthcare services in Germany  —  D. Abdelfattah 

Maternal, Adolescent & Child Health 

Chairs: S. Dubazana; G. Tadele

1. Unequal burdens: Gender disparities in COVID‑19 health and psychosocial outcomes in the United Arab Emirates  —  B. Saddik 
2. “It’s where I buy lunch or anything that I want to buy”: A participatory photo elicitation study on adolescents’ experience of food choice and environment in Kisumu, Kenya  —  E. Gobbo 
3. Balancing Accountability and Learning: Ethical and practical Dilemmas in Naming and Shaming within MPDSR  —  G. Tadele 
4. A systematic review and meta-analysis of integrated nutrition and immunisation (INI) programming to enhance equity, service coverage, and sustainability for children under five in eighteen low- and middle-income countries  —  S. Lee 
5. Prevalence and associated risk factors of self-reported symptoms suggestive of female genital schistosomiasis among women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa  —  S. Shongwe 

Digital Health & AI 

Chairs: A. Olowu; A. Lobato

1. Developing and testing automated Interactive reminders for cervical cancer screening and chronic disease follow-up in Brazilian primary care  —  G. Arruda 
2. Digital health intervention for cardiovascular disease risk score reduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis  —  A. Sow 
3. Social listening for reproductive health: a rapid risk assessment framework for infodemic threats  —  S. Mandić-Rajčević 
4. Evaluating the efficacy of digital media platforms in disseminating public health information: A global review with implications for South Africa  —  H. Matakanye 
5. Leveraging address data from clinical administrative systems to build community disease profiles  —  H. Hussey 

Climate Change & One Health 

Chairs: J. Shirinde; I. Ayvaz

1. How much do hospital canteens waste?  —  E. Mansutti 
2. Integrating climate change, environmental health, and one health into provincial health governance: a policy analysis from the western cape, South Africa  —  L. Naidoo 
3. Grounding Ethics in Climate Change and Health Research: A collaborative study triangulating perspectives of the communities, researchers and ethical committees  —  J. Michielsen 
4. Co-designing a mobile cooling hub to reduce heat-health risks among people experiencing homelessness.  —  A. Vasquez-Hernandez 
5. Short-term effects of temperature and air pollution on childhood asthma exacerbations in Cape Town, South Africa  —  T. Phakisi 

Mental Health 

Chairs: J. Kumawat; J. Pienaar

1. Depression Burden and Medication Non-Adherence Among Transgender Women on PrEP and ART: Findings from a South African National Survey  —  J. Pienaar 
2. Does mental health overshadow possible cancer symptoms: vignette survey with healthcare professionals  —  C. von Wagner 
3. Early life factors associated with childhood trajectories of violence among the birth to twenty-Plus cohort in Soweto, South Africa  —  L. Muchai 
4. High burden of problematic alcohol use is associated with depression and poor psychosocial well-being in South Africa  —  N. Peer 
5. Sociodemographic and mental health characteristics of people with HIV and HIV/TB in the Neuropsychiatric Genetics of African Populations–Psychosis study  —  K. Hook 

Non-Communicable Diseases 

Chairs: A. Rugakingira; M. Rahman

1. Exploring the Cardiometabolic Profile of Emirati Adults at Risk for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Findings from the United Arab Emirates Healthy Future Study  —  M. Taimah 
2. Acute cardiovascular and respiratory effects of Midwakh smoking: Evidence on an overlooked tobacco product in the United Arab Emirates  —  B. Saddik 
3. A protocol on Perspectives and Health-Seeking Behaviours of men on Prostate Cancer in Rural South Africa: A Qualitative study of survivors and the general population  —  X. Ntlongweni 
4. Using Group Model Building to Identify the Drivers and Levers of the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Cape Town, South Africa  —  M. Lembani 
5. Trends in the utilisation of cervical cancer screening and preventive services among beneficiaries of a large medical aid scheme for government employees in South Africa, 2022–2025: A descriptive analysis  —  Y. Hlophe 

Data to Policy: Equitable Health Policy Development for the Improvement of Health Outcomes

Speakers: A. Ancharski, L. Johnston, M. Maorifi, K. Mngomezulu

Educating for health equity: strengthening public health through social accountability in medical education

Speakers: J. Haywood

Civil Society participation in global health governance: contributions to the advocacy about NCDs

Speakers: P. Alves, J. Ribeiro

Making health inequalities visible across the life course in Brazil

Speakers: F. Wehrmeister, A. Barros, J. Costa, M. Louzada, L. Sardinha, T. Junqueira, E. Santos

Improving public health accessibility and equity through enhanced understanding of the neurobiology of trauma - Masterclass

Speakers: K. Jones, C. Chamberlain

Health Systems 

Chairs: S. Mkumbuzi; J. Olugbogi

1. Health systems strengthening to improve detection, treatment, and control of Multiple Long-Term Conditions in South African primary health care facilities: implementing the ENHANCE trial intervention  —  D. Georgeu-Pepper 
2. Operationalising Global Chronic Care Frameworks in Africa: Innovative Integrated Service Models from Namibia, Botswana, and Ethiopia  —  O. Mahomed 
3. Below 95%: Trends in immunisation Coverage and Health System Drivers of the re-emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2018/2019–2024/2025)  —  R. Desai 
4. Extreme weather events and emergency care: investigating and predicting patient emergency department outcomes in times of extreme weather  —  P. Morita 

Health Determinants & Equity 

Chairs: H. Mahomed; D. Lakhoo

1. Health-related quality of life, stress coping, and optimism among adults receiving ambulatory care for non-communicable diseases  —  K. Nnene 
2. Mobilizing Harm Reduction: Evaluating New Jersey’s Mobile Harm Reduction Centers Through a Global Public Health Lens  —  B. Scher 
3. Rural-urban disparities in eye health: An oaxaca-blinder decomposition  —  D. Thomas 
4. Factors Associated with Food Insecurity in People Living with HIV/AIDS in a City in the Northeast of Brazil  —  N. Ribeiro 
5. Migration and access to healthcare services: the legal path to equity in health  —  S. Dagron 

Maternal, Adolescent & Child Health 

Chairs: R. Baloch; I. Kagogwe

1. Sex as a Biological Variable in African Preclinical Research: A Bibliometric and Policy Analysis  —  A. Otwori 
2. Policies on prevention of alcohol harms in pregnancy and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)  —  F. Robards, E. Elliott 
3. Cost of a community-based nutrition intervention versus ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) for moderate acute malnutrition in children aged 6–59 months in Moutse, Limpopo, South Africa  —  G. Nel 
4. We are Fearless Women; exploring how women been impacted by changes in commissioning processes in English drug treatment services over the past 10 years?  —  V. Beere 
5. Early Sexual Initiation Among Adolescents in Public Secondary Schools in Parakou, Benin, 2024: Influences and Challenges  —  P. Makoutode 

Digital Health & AI 

Chairs: A. Rugakingira; M. Onoja-Alexander

1. AIM-HEALTH: Artificial intelligence-mediated discharge document for accessible healthcare. A study protocol  —  N. Pelizzari 
2. SCANNER Reveals the Hidden World of Harmful Online Marketing to Children and Youth in Australia  —  P. Liyana 
3. Digital Technologies and Health Inequalities in Tuberculosis Care: An Analysis of Institutional Processes in the Implementation of Video Directly Observed Therapy with a Focus on Equity and Health System Sustainability  —  D. Ferraz 
4. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Mosquito Population Forecasting: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Predictive Performance and Methodological Quality  —  C. Simone 
5. Adherence to Directly Observed Treatment via Video as a strategy for monitoring tuberculosis care in migrants  —  R. Alexandre Arcêncio 

Health Systems 

Chairs: C. Himabala; K. Jonas

1. Global Health and Latin America: Challenges to Health Systems in an Unequal World  —  C. Machado 
2. Strengthening System Resilience: Insights from the Western Cape Province Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risks (STAR) Assessment, South Africa  —  C. Lawrence 
3. Pragmatic-informed exploration of clinical governance implementation and challenges in South African public hospitals: qualitative insights from allied health managers  —  K. Maake 
4. Health system drivers of maternal nutrition and antenatal care in Vanuatu: a qualitative study of health workers’ perspectives  —  E. Kitchener 
5. Challenges and facilitators in pathways to cancer diagnosis in Southern Africa: A qualitative study  —  S. Day 

Health Determinants & Equity 

Chairs: I. Kagogwe; M. Edmunds

1. Equity Beyond Access Community Participation and Power in Health Committees in Cape Town  —  N. Ruya 
2. The Children are our Future: Targeting Early Adolescents for Violence prevention in the Western Cape of South Africa.  —  N. Van der Walt 
3. Exploring barriers and facilitators to health care access among patients with atrial fibrillation in Austria and Germany  —  L. Koisser 
4. Understanding domestic care workers’ health through the lens of labour exploitation as a social determinant of health: Evidence from Brazil, Colombia and UK  —  S. Boufkhed 
5. A qualitative exploration of the normalization of violence against children in five countries  —  S. Elliott 

Health Systems 

Chairs: L. Kekana-Hlatshwayo; F. Wayas

1. Health Without Borders: Governance, Equity, and Priority Setting for Essential Medicines and Diagnostics in sub-Saharan Africa – A Systematic Review  —  T. Leong 
2. Developing and applying a logic model to evaluate health projects within Brazil’s Unified Health System: a case study  —  F. Ricardo 
3. The unintended consequences of vertical health programs on health systems in lower and middle-income countries  —  C. Andresen 
4. Trust, Opposition, and Hesitancy: A Qualitative Study of Vaccine Discourse on YouTube Videos  —  B. Kilic 
5. South-South collaboration to strengthen primary care: supporting the localisation of South Africa’s Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) for Indonesia  —  C. Ras 

Indigenous Health 

Chairs: W. Padgham; C. da Silva

1. Country, Culture and the Cost of Care: The Burdens Behind the Journey for Health  —  G. Sallows 
2. Transforming Prenatal Care: A Two-Eyed Seeing Model for Indigenous Families  —  E. Powell 
3. Co-design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Males in a Very Remote Community of the Northern Territory, Australia.  —  C. Stokes 
4. Transforming migrant health data for policy action: Developing, validating and applying the Migrant Health Country Profile Tool in the Middle East and North Africa  —  F. Seedat 
5. Early Tobacco Education for First Nations Children: Culturally Tailored Curriculum Development for Kindergarten to Grade 3 Students in Northern Saskatchewan  —  J. Ndubuka 

Public Health Governance 

Chairs: S. Taylor; K. Alraesi

1. South African adolescents’ perspectives regarding barriers and facilitators to implementing healthy food environment policies  —  M. Brear 
2. The health impacts of illegal pushbacks at European borders on children  —  Y. Boukari 
3. Participatory development and pilot implementation of self-care support groups for chagas disease in primary health care in Brazil’s unified health system  —  V. Carranza 
4. Characterization of access to outpatient care, pharmacological treatment and quality of life of patients with chronic respiratory conditions  —  R. Warken 
5. Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Sepsis in Blantyre, Malawi: An Observational Cohort Study  —  N. Yongolo 

Ageing & Adult Health 

Chairs: J. Ncayiyana; I. Kowalska-Bobko

1. Community-Based Participatory Research to Strengthen Rural Older Adults’ Health Care Planning in Northeastern Brazil  —  A. Morais 
2. Dietary patterns and adiposity risk in young adults aged 18-49, living in urban slums in a metropolitan city in Ghana: Implications on healthy lifestyle practices  —  F. Hayford 
3. Sexual health of older people (SHOP): promoting dialogue and enhancing sexual well-being in older adults  —  J. Simmonds 
4. Demographic, psychosocial, and health-related factors associated with depressive symptoms in older adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in a South African metropolitan  —  G. Kigozi-Male 
5. Exploring the feasibility of social prescription of parkrun for people living with dementia  —  R Chelberg 
6. Experience of Body Changes and Sexuality among Middle-aged Men and Women: A Community-Based Exploratory Qualitative Study  —  R. Mapuroba 

AMR 

Chairs: S. Mkumbuzi; C. Jeena

1. Tackling antimicrobial resistance: an AWaRe-based intervention for acute respiratory illness in primary care for low- and middle-income countries  —  N. Saldulker 
2. The localisation process of an AWaRe-based antibiotic stewardship intervention in primary care across four low- and middle-income countries  —  M. Levy-Haigh 
3. Exploring antimicrobial resistance in long-term care facilities for people with intellectual disabilities: results from a national surveillance study in the Netherlands  —  S. Hidad-Nuh 
4. Microbial profile and antimicrobial resistance patterns of diabetic wound infections in Nelson Mandela Bay Metro: A retrospective multi-hospital study  —  V. Ntsalu 
5. Establishing a Sustainable AMR Surveillance Program in a Resource-Limited Setting: A One-Year Experience from Mwanza District Hospital, Malawi  —  F. Makiya 

Climate Change & One Health 

Chairs: J. Shirinde; F. Hayford

1. Sustainability and resilience in the territory: dialogues on healthy environments and climate change in a brazilian rural settlement  —  D. Paiva de Abreu Leidy 
2. Healthcare access vulnerability in groundwater-dependent regions: preliminary methods for a surveillance framework from the American High Plains aquifer  —  C. Branstetter 
3. MSF Case Study: Community-Centered Water, Sanitation and Climate Resilience in Southern Africa  —  N. Tsotetsi 
4. Quantifying Disposable Diaper Waste as a One Health and Climate-Sensitive Public Health Threat: Evidence from a 72-Hours Diapers Collection for Accountability Campaign in Kilifi County, Kenya  —  K. Shikuku 
5. Exploring the role of grandmothers in promoting sustainable environmental practices and climate awareness in community-based climate interventions  —  J. Simmonds 

Communicable Diseases 

Chairs: I. Ayouni; M. Onoja-Alexander

1. Health Belief Patterns and Preventive Behaviors Toward Opisthorchiasis Among Rural Mekong Border Communities in Northeastern Thailand  —  K. Malelaai 
2. Improving equitable access to malaria care among hard-to-reach Amazonian gold miners: a promising self-diagnosis and self-treatment kit (Malakit)  —  M . Dounine 
3. Malawi’s 95–95–95 progress at risk: Identifying who falls behind as HIV funding shrinks  —  W. Matola Bilaal 
4. Assessing User Experience with the Bioline™ HCV Point-of-care Test in Primary Healthcare Settings in Ghana: A Mixed-Methods Study  —  E. Duah 
5. Economic evaluation of COVID-19 vaccination in reducing hospitalisation and mortality in a South African insured population using real-world data  —  G. Solanki 

Decolonising Public Health 

Chairs: D. Van-Veen; R. Useh

1. Re-centering Community-Oriented Primary Care: Uncovering Pre-Alma-Ata Roots to Strengthen Equity-Driven Health Systems  —  M. Alves Padilha 
2. Equitable Participation in Healthcare: Shifting Power to Communities  —  L. Kobola 
3. Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future (HPNF): factors impacting improved health equity in tertiary healthcare for Indigenous families  —  K. Jones 
4. Supporting Decolonized Pharmacovigilance Systems: A Funder Perspective on African-Led Regulatory Decision Making  —  D. McCarthy 
5. Decolonising African Public Health: Centering Indigenous Knowledge for Equity and Health  —  I. Agoro 

Digital Health & AI 

Chairs: N. Jacob; S. Alsheraifi

1. Developing a Cost Data Collection Framework for Tuberculosis Care Using Activity-Based Costing: In-Person and Digital Strategies  —  I. Carvalho Pinto 
2. Health managers and professionals experiences with tuberculosis treatment adherence in in-person and digital strategies  —  I. Carvalho Pinto 
3. Digital health competencies in European public health residents: evaluation through a validated assessment tool and an educational intervention  —  M. Zarro 
4. iGOGO: bridging the digital divide by addressing the grey divide  —  H. Gxotiwe 

Education & Training 

Chairs: R. Beukes; C. Ras

1. Strengthening infectious disease prevention to support equity in selected District Health Directorates in Istanbul: a quasi-experimental training intervention for non-physician healthcare workers  —  M. Oren 
2. Co creating Ubuntu Pedagogy: A Participatory Workshop Model for Strengthening Educational Capacity in Higher Education  —  S. Chigogora 
3. Embedding person-centered teaching in nursing education: academic staff and clinical facilitator's experiences in a South African undergraduate program  —  S. Nyezi 
4. Designing a food-related learning agenda among vulnerable populations  —  J. Sebastião 
5. Educational and physical exercise intervention on lower back pain among nurses in Botswana: a non-blinded randomized control trial  —  K. Kgakge 

Health Determinants & Equity 

Chairs: K. Arriola; C. Park

1. DDT for malaria control: A scientific or political decision?  —  C. de Jager 
2. Spatial interaction of covid-19 and tuberculosis in Brazil: syndemic cluster evidence  —  B. Nunes 
3. A machine learning approach to health equity: identifying underdiagnosed chronic diseases in US adults using national health and nutrition examination survey (2015-2018, 2021-2023)  —  F. Rodrigues 
4. Determinants and Social Factors of Violence Against Women in the Context of Youth and Adult Education  —  J.A. Rodrigues Ferreira 
5. Determinants of Non-Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment in Patients Co-Infected with TB and HIV in Polokwane, Limpopo  —  S. Phindile 

Health Systems 

Chairs: S. Taylor; T. Banda-Mtaula

1. Barriers to accessing cancer care services in Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa: cancer survivors’ perspectives  —  N. Ncitakalo 
2. Learning across methods, contexts, and practice: insights from the global evidence–local adaptation project on developing clinical practice guidelines for newborn and child health  —  C. Spӓth 
3. A sub-national level analysis of the human resource implications of large-scale community health programs in developing countries  —  L. Thomas 
4. Co-created integrated e-health interventions for non-communicable diseases and sexual and reproductive health services for young people in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review  —  B. Nojilana 
5. Living Labor in Action: Workforce Planning and Sizing in Primary Health Care in Espírito Santo, Brazil  —  J. Pacheco Moreira Barbosa 

Maternal, Adolescent & Child Health 

Chairs: S. Dubazana; G. Öztürk

1. Let's talk sex: the perceived impact of skills training on grandmothers' communcation with pre-adolescent and adolescent grandchildren about sexual and reproductive health  —  J. Simmonds 
2. Training Brazilian health professionals for perinatal and neonatal loss care: Designing a pilot program  —  D. Levandowski 
3. Fostering a health-enabling environment for adolescent sexual and reproductive health through strengthening caregiver-early adolescent sexuality communication in Cape Town, South Africa  —  L. Court 
4. Multidimensional Household Energy Poverty and Its Association with Early Childhood Development among Children 24-59 months in Nigeria  —  O. Ujah 
5. Nursing students’ perceptions of violence against women and academic–professional support in comprehensive women’s health care  —  L. Vieira 

Maternal, Adolescent & Child Health 

Chairs: D. Sekgala; D. Salunga

1. Persistent Childhood Anemia in Mozambique: Findings from Pooled Demographic and Health Surveys (2011–2022/23)  —  R. Maulide Cane 
2. Prevalence and factors influencing delivery site preferences among women accessing immunization services in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria  —  A. Oku 
3. Stalled progress in reducing reproductive tract infections and uneven treatment seeking among women in India 2005–2021  —  A. Singh 
4. Clinical and epidemiological profile of preterm infants with neonatal intracranial injuries in an outpatient follow-up program within brazil’s public health system  —  F. Santos Neves 
5. Small starts, big challenges: feeding progression in extremely low birth weight infants in a resource-limited NICU  —  E. van Niekerk 

Mental Health 

Chairs: T. Setshwaelo; N. Paksoy

1. The Silent Struggle: Mental Distress among Bachelor of Emergency Medical Care Students in South Africa  —  M. Chetty 
2. Evaluation of Mental Health outcomes: a framework for mental health policy and quality of Public Health Systems  —  M. Gumbau 
3. Risk Prediction Models for the Onset of Mental Health Disorders: A Systematic Review of Model Methods, Performance and Clinical Utility  —  A. Tsaligopoulou 
4. Health promoting efforts in school - what is needed to make children and youth thrive and do well?  —  O. Horverak May 

Minorities, Diversity & Inclusion 

Chairs: M. Sivakami; G. Öztürk

1. Determining the migration status of 24 million individuals living in England using the OpenSAFELY platform  —  Y. Boukari 
2. Diversity and inclusion in public health care: the perspective of sexual and gender minorities in municipal services in Brazil  —  C. Brilinger 
3. High Multimorbidity and Healthcare Access Among Migrants Compared to Locals: Evidence of an Interaction Effect in Chile  —  B. Cabieses Báltica 
4. Social determinants of health and migration: impacts on the sexual and reproductive health of immigrant women in Brazil  —  A. Rodrigues Ferreira Júnior 
5. When Does Political Empowerment Mitigate Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality? A Simulation Study  —  L. Gram 

Non-Communicable Diseases 

Chairs: J. Amoah; T. Banda-Mtaula

1. Understanding the burden of human immunodeficiency virus related cancers in south africa’s eastern cape province: A 2002-2017 retrospective study  —  A. Ncinitwa 
2. Effect of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke on respiratory health: a secondary analysis of the ASHES study  —  A. Ruano Raviña 
3. Mapping NCD Risk in Youth: Prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases and its association with hypertension among young adults in urban Meghalaya  —  P. Sundaram Shanthosh 
4. Social inequities in clustering of modifiable non-communicable disease risk factors among adults in a low-income urban community: A cross-sectional study  —  A. Kadam 
5. Prevalence of lung cancer risk occupations in Small Cell Lung Cancer cases  —  A. Ruano Ravina 

Political Determinants of Health 

Chairs: H. Mahomed; R. Shraim

1. Aligning Bilateral Health Compacts with the Accra Reset: A Comparative Analysis of Three U.S. Health MOUs in Africa  —  J. Ratevosian 
2. Prevention of noncommunicable diseases from a 360-degree perspective: advocacy and network-based action for the promotion of public health policies  —  D. Amorim 
3. Global South Leadership, Social Determinants of Health, and the Future of Multilateralism: The G20 as a Platform for Social Development  —  A. Sarkar 
4. Tobacco smuggling at international borders: public health and governance challenges in a brazil–paraguay territory  —  C. Da Silva 
5. Trends in mortality from suicide, drug use and alcohol-related diseases in São Paulo, Brazil, 2009–2021  —  E.F. de Souza Santos 

Public Health Advocacy 

Chairs: H. Mahomed; J. Amoah

1. Public health advocacy action for social determinants of health  —  M. Edmunds 
2. Unravelling unintended consequences in health policy through the 2007 Occupation-Specific Dispensation Strategy: a qualitative systematic review  —  D. Witten 
3. Partnerships between Parliament and Civil Society to Strengthen Mental Health Public Policies: The Brazilian Experience  —  D. Morays 
4. Front‑of‑package labelling as a public health imperative rooted in the right to health  —  Y. Radu 
5. Towards Effective Citizen Participation in Cancer: Evidence from Civil Society Organizations in Chile  —  B. Cabieses 

Public Health Communication 

Chairs: C. von Wagner; S. Mkumbuzi

1. Public Health Communication in the Italian Press During COVID-19: an assessment according to International Recommendations  —  N. Pelizzari 
2. From Survey to Solution: Mobile Application Targeting Health, Nutrition, Stress, and Sexual Wellness for Truckers Based on Route- and Age-Specific Needs Assessment in India  —  K. Biswas 
3. Preliminary Evidence on Vaccine Misinformation Narratives on YouTube in Brazil: A Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Videos and User Comments  —  MP. Paranhos Caldas 
4. Media Narratives on COVID-19 Vaccination in Italy: Insights from a Multidisciplinary Analysis of National Newspapers  —  U. Gelatti 
5. Internationally recommended indicators for conducting population-based tobacco surveillance  —  L. de Luis Cid 

Public Health Leadership 

Chairs: H. Mahlangu; P. Piotie

1. Designing and implementing a Decision Support Framework for primary healthcare managers across the Western Cape, South Africa  —  C. Pillay 
2. The Relationship Between Nurse Outcomes, The Work Environment, Nurse-Perceived Patient Outcomes, and Patient Satisfaction in Eswatini  —  S. Dlamini 
3. The Role of Undergraduate Public Health Graduates in Strengthening System Resilience and Emergency Response in Fiji  —  A. Prakash 
4. Women’s leadership in the governance of health policies in Brazil  —  J. Pacheco Moreira Barbosa 
5. Physician Provision Programmes and Health Workforce Governance in Primary Health Care: Evidence from Espírito Santo, Brazil  —  R. Bamberg Elauar 

Public Health Governance 

Chairs: N. Zotti; D. Salunga

1. A Governance-Oriented Municipal Index for Monitoring Early Childhood Policies in Brazil  —  M. Mota 
2. Executive evaluation of the national cost management program of the ministry of health, Brazil  —  MP. Caldas 
3. Migration Policies and Sexual and Reproductive Health Access Among Young Migrants  —  N. Nderere 
4. Advancing multisectoral public health Leadership and governance in Zimbabwe: The role of the public health advisor to the president and cabinet in the highest office of the land  —  A. Mahomva 
5. Ensuring evidence informs policy decisions: The experience of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Foodborne Illness following six fatal child terbufos poisonings in South Africa  —  L. London 

Research & Methods 

Chairs: M. Gissler; I. Ayouni

1. Comparison between real-time low-cost sensor and gravimetric sampling methods of particulate matter (PM2.5) in an urban background location, Zambia  —  A. Halubobya 
2. Trends in tuberculosis treatment outcomes and mortality in São Paulo State, Brazil, 2015–2022  —  A. Arcêncio Ricardo 
3. A Cross-Sectional Survey of Health, Safety, and Digital Engagement Among Truckers: Priorities for Behavior Change and Mobile Health Interventions  —  K. Biswas 
4. Lean management in patient flows to maximize hospital outputs, reduce waiting times and overcrowding in emergency rooms  —  AD. Pereira 
5. The Impact of Physical Activity Promotion Policies for Inactive Individuals at the Municipal Level  —  A. Agirre 

Social Security & Protection 

Chairs: M. Orgill; J. Nyasulu

1. Sex-based Inequities in Occupational Accidents in Rio Claro/SP/BR: Evidence from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN)  —  L. Justo 
2. Ending AIDS from the Ground Up: A Community-Led, Integrated Care Model for India’s Key Populations  —  K. Biswas 
3. Work, illness, and health-related leave among nursing workers in Brazil  —  EL. Dresch 
4. Mapping mental health awareness programs among adolescents in South Africa: a scoping review  —  T. Mahada 
5. A qualitative examination of the impact of sexual assault on alcohol use among bisexual+ and heterosexual survivors  —  G. Lopez 

Station 1

Health Determinants & SDGs 

Chair: S. Dubazana

1. Empowering Underserved Communities: The Medical Town Hall as a Model for Community-Driven Health Agency  —  A. Williams 
2. Operationalising Equity: A Study of the Challenges in Aligning Policy Principles with Performance Metrics in Brazilian Primary Care  —  F. Szabzon 
3. Challenges in Water Quality Surveillance in Contexts of Territorial Inequality in Bahia, Brazil  —  Y. Rodrigues 
4. Health Seeking Behaviour of Urban Slum Dwellers in a Large Metropolitan Setting - a Qualitative Study  —  V. Priya 
5. Bridging Barriers: A Proposed Ethics-Driven Ecological Paradigm for Global One Health and Intergenerational Well-Being  —  Y. Tong 
6. Health Service Utilization and Access in the Municipality of São Paulo: A Contribution from a Population-Based Survey  —  M. Louvison 
7. Have Health Policy Efforts Reduced Residential Inequalities in Mortality in Lithuania?  —  O. Mesceriakova 
8. Uncovering inequalities and major gaps in care provision to people living with HIV and hypertension in southern mozambique  —  E. Lichucha 
9. Factors Affecting Posttraumatic Growth Among Survivors Of Domestic Violence: A Scoping Review  —  S. Zoutenberg 

Station 2

Vaccines & AMR 

Chair: M. Mnangagwa

1. Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy in the Post–covid-19 Context in Brazil: Communication Challenges  —  T. Couto 
2. What Influences Communities to Participate in Vaccine Trials? A Rapid Review of Barriers and Enablers to Inform Trials of Streptococcus a Vaccination  —  G. Vaughan 
3. Analysis of Vaccination Coverage in the Pediatric Age Group Against Coronavirus (COVID-19) In Brazil from 2021 to 2024  —  V. Rosa 
4. : Intrahospital Vaccination Strategy for Bcg and Hepatitis B: Achieving Near-Universal Coverage in Brazil  —  L. Miranda 
5. Trends in Hospitalizations for Selected Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Brazil, 2009–2024: A Joinpoint Regression Analysis  —  S. Kassada 
6. Barriers for Adult Vaccination: Results of the Qualitative Survey with Adults and Healthcare Workers in Three Regions of the Russian Federation  —  M. Lopatina 
7. Low Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine Coverage and the Re-Emergence of Measles in Brazil: Implications for Health Equity in a World Without Borders  —  E. Maia 
8. From Uniform Coverage to Targeted Impact: Subnational Tailoring for Evidence-Informed Malaria Decision-Making – Lessons from Nigeria  —  A. Ekeh 
9. Determinants of malaria vaccine uptake among caregivers of children under one year at Masaka Police Health Centre III, Masaka City, Uganda  —  V. Usigbe 
10. Multifunctional metal oxides synthesized via a solvo.  —  O. Okoh 
11. Acaricide resistance to ticks and chemical residues in food products of animal origin: A review  —  N. Nyangiwe 

Station 3

Research & Methods 

Chair: P. Shabangu

1. Community Perspectives on the Environmental Determinants of Obesity in a Low-Income Urban Neighborhood: A Participatory Study in Istanbul  —  R. Uwera 
2. Reframing Health Committee Effectiveness Using the Capabilities Approach in South African Health Governance  —  N. Ruya 
3. Disputing Meanings, Affirming Margins: The Critical Potential of Cultural Studies in Public Health  —  A. Rodrigues 
4. A Framework and Practical Approach to Identify and Address Ethical Issues Arising in Interventional Public Health Research  —  S. Molyneux 
5. Mapping Outcomes Reported in Primary Studies of Interventions Addressing Access to Food in Lmics to Inform a Core Outcome Set  —  S. Durao 
6. A Cultural Studies-Oriented Scoping Review Model: Methodological Innovations for Critical Public Health  —  A. Rodrigues 
7. What Body Mapping Demands: Field Lessons from Participatory Research with Acid Attack Survivors in India  —  P. Singh 
8. Realising the Promise of Participatory Action Research in Health - Emerging Findings from a Realist Review (Real-2)  —  H.M. van der Westhuizen 
9. Brazilian Graduate-Level Research Output on Public Policies for Equity: A Bibliometric Study  —  S. Dias 
10. Social vulnerability and gaps in social protection among people undergoing tuberculosis treatment in São Paulo State, Brazil  —  I. de Oliveira 
11. Strengthening Equity and Inclusion in Clinical Trials: Lessons Learned from Community Engagement and Site Operations in Clinical Trials, South Africa, a commentary abstract  —  P. Sibusiso Ngcobo 

Station 1

Political Determinants & Advocacy 

Chair: S. Abdulla

1. Coordinated Market-Shaping Levers in Health Product Introduction: A Case Study from South Africa  —  K. Mtombeni 
2. Food Insecurity, Mental Health and Comorbidities Among South African Adults During 2025  —  L. Nkosi 
3. Exploring the Marketing and Healthiness of Food Products Promoted on South Africa’s Major Food Retailers’ Online Platforms  —  C. Dikgale 
4. What Is Public Health Advocacy? Defining the Field and Identifying Effective Practice and Required Competencies  —  J. Bhatti 
5. Food Delivery Applications and the Digital Food Environment: Motivations and Implications for Public Health Nutrition  —  I. Bezerra 
6. Between Policy and Practice: Multi-Level Perspectives on Implementing South Africa’s Neglected Tropical Disease Master Plan  —  N. Dlamini 
7. Policy, Diplomacy and Action to Tackle an Industrial Pandemic from Ultra-Processed Foods in Africa  —  R. Loewenson 
8. Health Care Access, Seeking Practices and Behaviours Among Migrant Parents And/or Caregivers with Under-Five Children: A Scoping Review Protocol  —  M. Lembani 
9. When Images Become Products: Visual Strategies of the Tobacco Market in a Brazil–paraguay Border Territory  —  S. Cabral 
10. Young Adults’ Support for Tobacco Endgame Strategies and E-Cigarette Regulations: Findings of an International Survey  —  F. Robards 
11. ‘Tshilonda tshi vhavha mukweti’ – A Narrative Review on Meaningful Engagement of People Living with HIV (PLWHIV) in Integrating Mental Health into HIV Programmes  —  L. Malala 

Station 2

Non-Communicable Diseases 

Chair: J. Amoah

1. Prevalence of Traumatic Dental Injuries Among Contact Sports Athletes in a Southeastern Brazilian Capital  —  L. Lutzke 
2. Prevalence and Disparities of Ideal Cardiovascular Health: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study in South Africa.  —  J. Ncayiyana 
3. Home Food Environment and Household Food Security Interventions Targeting Adult Populations in Low-Income Settings: A Systematic Review  —  S. Madlala 
4. Prevalence and Associated Factors of Abdominal Obesity Among Housewives in Rural North India  —  A. Chaudhary 
5. Dietary Inflammatory Index and Body Weight Gain in Adults: An Analysis of the Nutrinet-Brasil Study  —  L. P. da Silva Junior 
6. From Bench to Health Equity: In Vitro Insights on Bioinspired Peptides as Multifunctional Antidiabetic Agents  —  D. Abdullahi 
7. Patient Perceptions of Asthma Control and Remission: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis  —  M. Mukoya 
8. Changes in Physical Activity and Weight Gain over Five Years According to Socio-Economic Status in Young South African Adults  —  S. Kruger 
9. Equitable Cardiovascular Prevention in South Africa: Decision-Maker Perspectives on Cardiovascular Polypills  —  D. Leong 
10. Healthcare users’ experiences of preventing and managing non-communicable diseases in a rural health and demographic surveillance site in South Africa: A qualitative study  —  K. Ravhuhali 
11. Developing a community pharmacy service to facilitate early diagnosis of bowel cancer: survey of pharmacy staff  —  C. von Wagner 

Station 3

Education & Leadership 

Chair: S. Chigogora

1. Health Systems and Public Health Learning Through Partnership: Co-Designing a Game-Based Assessment with South African Medical Students  —  R. English 
2. Teaching Strategies Used by Grade 11 Chemistry Teachers in Rural South Africa: Implications for Scientific Literacy and Public Health Education  —  I. Gwebu 
3. Creating an Academically Competent Public Health Workforce Through Supportive Education and Training  —  A. Daniels-Osaze 
4. Bridging the Skills Gap: An Open Access Initiative to Strengthen Hand Injury Care in Low Resourced Settings  —  E. Conibear 
5. Accreditation as a Catalyst for Equity, Competence, and Workforce Resilience in Public Health Education  —  D. Relic 
6. From Theory to Practice: Health Promotion in Undergraduate Medical Education  —  M. Geldenhuys 
7. Training Health Education Multipliers to Strengthen Public Health Capacities  —  A. Márcia 
8. Education and Intersectorality: The Importance of Territorial Meanings Based on the Experience of the Course "Education, Health, and Social Assistance: Complementary Networks in Basic Social Protection" in Perus – São Paulo, Brazil  —  L. Musumeci 
9. Assessing the Knowledge and Attitudes of a Cohort of Nurses Towards Lgbtiq+ Health Care  —  T. Mzenda 
10. Health Professionals’ Perceptions after a Hybrid Continuing Education Strategy of the Care for Child Development Project in Primary Health Care  —  C. Alves 

Station 1

Adults & Older Adults Health 

Chair: M. Mnangagwa

1. The Influence of Lifestyle Behaviors on Health-Related Quality of Life: Results of a Non-Randomized Controlled Intervention Study  —  C. Pischke 
2. Assessing Ageism Among Generation-Z: A Multinational Study  —  M. Cherfane 
3. The Institutionalization Process of the Elderly in Brazil: Challenges and Perspectives of Family Caregivers  —  A. Carvalho 
4. Do Cross-National Differences in Increasing Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Incidence Rates Reflect Inequities in Diagnosis and Surveillance  —  A. Magid 
5. Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases in People of Working Age: Results of a Survey of Employees  —  A. Antsiferova 
6. Self-Reported Complaints Regarding Swallowing and Therapeutic Follow-up of Adults and Older Adults from a Brazilian Primary Health Care Unit  —  C. Chamouton 
7. The Effects of Internet and Technology Use on the Ability to Care for Own Health Among the U.s. Populations: An Analysis from the Health Information National Trends Survey (Hints 7)  —  C. Park 
8. Effects of Psychosocial Factors on Swedish Waste Collectors Musculoskeletal Pain Through the Mediating Roles of Occupational Fatigue and Physical Demands: A Structural Equation Model  —  L. He 
9. Social and Health Inequities in Rural Thai Older Adults: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Community-Based Health Promotion Interventions  —  W. Nak-Ai 
10. Time to diagnosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who have never smoked  —  A. Ruano-Ravina 
11. Epidemiological profile of deaths from cellulitis and mouth abscess in Brazil: 1996–2024  —  L. Justo 

Station 2

Maternal & Adolescent & Child Health 

Chair: S. Dubazana

1. Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Egypt: Insights from a Pre- and Post-Universal Health Coverage Qualitative Study  —  R. Elsayed 
2. Child Malnutrition and Household Vulnerability in Thiès, Senegal: Findings from a Longitudinal Study  —  M. Diop 
3. Formative Research on Chagas Disease – a Deeper Understanding of the Impact of a Neglected Disease on Women in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay.  —  D. Vermeij 
4. Acceptance of Corporal Punishment Among Japanese Parents of Young Children: A Nationwide Survey  —  M. Kimura 
5. Exploring the Meaning of Value of Maternal Care Among Healthcare Professionals and Patients: Application of Value-Based Healthcare at the Mowbray Maternity Hospital in Cape Town , South Africa  —  W. Tombe-Mdewa 
6. Engaging Men to Improve Women’s Wellbeing and Address Sociocultural Barriers to Family Planning : The “husbands’ Schools” Approach in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo  —  A. Zongo 
7. Physical Fitness in Adolescents Born Preterm or Small for Gestational Age in Rural Malawi  —  P. Bhattacharjee 
8. Equity on the Plate: Factors Influencing Vegetable Provision and Menu Dietary Diversity in South African Early Childhood Development Centres  —  Y. Smit 
9. Routine Register Data Show Persistent Educational Differences in Perinatal Health, Finland 2002–2023  —  M. Gissler 
10. Type and Content Profile of Added Sugars in Ready-to-Eat Breakfast Cereals for Children Sold in Selected Markets  —  M. AbuKhader 

Station 3

Non-Communicable Diseases 

Chair: S. Matina

1. Neighbourhood Environmental Exposures and Cognitive Performance Among Older Individuals in Johannesburg, South Africa  —  T. Kootbodien 
2. Cardiometabolic Risk Clusters in Adolescents and Adults: A Latent Class Analysis in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey  —  V. Ramokolo 
3. Exploring Biokineticists' Role in the Early Detection and Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases in Rural South Africa: A Qualitative Study  —  G. Mukoma 
4. Stroke Prevention: Exploring the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Chws and Healthcare Professionals in the North-West Province, South Africa.  —  S. Botha 
5. Sans Shadows – Unveiling the Oral Hypoglycemic Agent Adherence Puzzle in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Rural Community  —  V. Priya 
6. Safe Pathways: Advancing Equity, Inclusion, and Sustainability in Aboriginal Cancer Care  —  S. Herzog 
7. Transforming Diabetes and Metabolic Health with Aboriginal People Living on Ngarrindjeri Country: Insights from the Co-Designed Nra:gi Ya:yun Healthy Eating Initiative  —  S. Omodei-James 
8. Prevalence and Associated Factors of Normal-Weight Central Obesity Among Community-Dwelling Adults 18 Years and Older in Mongolia  —  S. Pengpid 
9. Redefining Cancer Care Equity: Public Health Insights from Phytochemical-Based Melanoma Therapy  —  N. Hlophe 
10. Uncovering Gaps in Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices on HPV Vaccination Among Cape Town’s Healthcare Workers  —  I. Ayouni 
11. Establishment of a group a streptococcal antigen discovery platform to identify immunodominant targets in rheumatic heart disease  —  T. Salie 
12. Economic burden of multimorbidity in South Africa - findings from the enhance trial  —  W. Tombe-Mdewa 
13. Mortality attributable to overweight and obesity: methodological aspects and estimations  —  G. García 
14. Socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of chronic non-communicable disease risk factors in the DIMAMO Health Demographic Surveillance Site  —  K. Ravhuhali 
15. Comparing of survey-based and small area model estimates of secondhand tobacco smoke prevalence of exposure  —  C. Guerra-Tort 

Station 1

Health Promotion 

Chair: C. Batista

1. The Influence of Children on Parental Food Purchases During Supermarket Shopping in Pretoria, South Africa: The Perspectives of Parents  —  N. Koen 
2. From Referral to Behavior Change: An Example of a Community-Based Systemic Approach to Promoting Physical Activity in Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain).  —  A. Agirre 
3. From Global to Local: Youth-Driven Public Health Actions  —  H. Nicoletti 
4. The Work of Community Health Workers in a Pandemic Context: Narratives, Care, and Equity in Primary Health Care  —  G. Brito Martins 
5. Essential Surgery Capability of Non-Tertiary Hospital Facilities in the Philippines (the Philippine Surgical Capacity Study -Phase 1)  —  A. Viray 
6. Beyond Pilots: Sustainability Strategies in the Tuscan Living Lab’s Healthy Eating Promotion Activities  —  C. Ferravante 
7. Changes in the National Primary Health Care Policy: Perceptions of Community Health Workers in Northeastern Brazil  —  A. Rodrigues 
8. Universal Health Coverage Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges, Reforms, and Policy Recommendations for National Sustainability  —  O. Ogbodu 
9. “positive Signage and Certification as Complementary Strategies for Tobacco-Free and Health-Promoting Environments: Experiences from Switzerland”  —  S. Koalick 
10. Between Care and Overload: Gender, Invisible Labor, and Equity in Primary Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic  —  M. Martins 
11. Disparity between curative and preventive oral health actions in Brazilian primary care: an analysis of the 2024 national census of primary health care units of the unified health system  —  A. Bousquat 
12. The Global Healthy Hospital Food Network: A Multidisciplinary and International Alliance for Healthier and Sustainable Hospital Food Systems  —  P. Nhlapo 
13. Evaluation of the operationalization of health promotion in primary health care  —  C. Flemming Colussi 
14. Access to primary health care in riverine territories of the Brazilian Amazon through fluvial primary health care units  —  E. Scannavino 
15. Curriculum-Based Road Safety Education as a Cost-Effective Strategy to Reduce Pedestrian Traffic Injuries in Bangladesh  —  C. Dhakal 

Station 2

Non-Communicable Diseases 

Chair: T. Banda-Mtaula

1. Metabolic Outcomes and Lived Experience Following a Low-Carbohydrate Dietary Approach: A Mixed-Methods Case Study  —  K. Heath 
2. Formoterol Plus Inhaled Corticosteroid Fixed-Dose Combinations for Symptom Relief in Chronic Asthma Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  —  S. Ebrahim 
3. Interactive Data Trackers Inform Policy and Monitor Non-Communicable Disease Progress in Hawaiʻi  —  J. Chosy 
4. Mental Health, Cannabis Use Motives, and Cannabis Use Disorder: A Path Analysis from a Swiss Regulated Cannabis Cohort  —  D. Zullino 
5. Effectiveness of Individual Support by Healthy Lifestyle Specialists in Reducing Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases in Population  —  M. Lopatina 
6. Effect of Whole-Body Electromyostimulation (WB-EMS) On Muscle Strength and Body Composition in People with a Sedentary Lifestyle and Prediabetes  —  M. Shojaa 
7. A Cross-Sectional Study of Knowledge, Attitudes, Barriers and Practices of Cervical Cancer Screening Among Nurses in Selected Hospitals in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.  —  S. Sibulawa 
8. The Association Between Anthropometric Obesity Indices and Lipid Profile in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Results from the UAE Healthy Future Study Data  —  M. Almarri 
9. Bone Health, Obesity, and Multimorbidity Risk Among Teachers in Under-Resourced South African Public Primary Schools: Results from a Cross-Sectional Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry Study  —  N. Joubert 
10. Colour Fundus Photography as a Rapid Screening Tool for Diabetic Complications: A Pilot Study  —  A. Cois 
11. Differences in Hospital Clinical Outcomes Between Younger and Older Women with Breast Cancer in Chile, 2004–2024  —  B. Cabieses 

Station 3

Digital Health & AI 

Chair: D. Beltrammi

1. Health Systems, Digital Transformation and Equity in Brazil’s Unified Health System  —  M. Alves 
2. Unsupervised, Personalized, and Interpretable Activity Recognition and Anomaly Detection in a Real-World Smart Home  —  P. Morita 
3. Construction of an Integrated Teaching and Assessment Platform for AI Literacy Cultivation in Medical Students: Guangdong Medical University AI Medical School (Gdmu-Aims)  —  B. Zhang 
4. Machine Learning Algorithms for the Detection and Prediction of Depression in Diabetes: A Systematic Review.  —  A. McInerney 
5. Digital Health Innovation: Development of the Digital Health Educational Portal Within Brazil’s Unified Health System  —  P. Trindade 
6. Digital Mental Health: Expanding and Strengthening Mental Health Care in Primary Health  —  B. Moreira 
7. AI on Fragile Foundations? - Lesson's from Ghana's Lightwave Health Management System  —  M. Anim 
8. Patient Voices in Health System Governance: Evaluating a Digital Patient-Feedback Management System as a Decision-Support Tool for Quality-of-Care Improvement in Ugandan Hospitals  —  J. Kagogwe 
9. The Experience of the Digital Health Work-Based Education Program Project at the Federal University of São Paulo in Strengthening the Unified Health System (Sus) Through Digital Transformation  —  S. Chriguer 
10. Strategy.ai Thon: Conceptualizing Innovation and Strategic Governance Driven by AI Through a Hackathon in Brazil  —  M. Alves 
11. Telemedicine readiness and competencies among yemeni healthcare providers: assessing awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and technical skills  —  A. Bagahizel 
12. Telemedicine as a tool for continuity of care: the experience of local healthcare trust  —  E. Marcante 
13. A practical framework for data science in epidemiological surveillance  —  M. Fornazi 
14. Telemedicine applied to the management of patients affected by obstructive sleep apnea syndrome treated with continuous positive airway pressure  —  E. Marcante 
15. Vaxin8: an artificial intelligence reverse vaccinology tool to predict potential vaccine candidates  —  Z. Salod 

Station 1

Maternal & Adolescent & Child Health 

Chair: S. Salam

1. Improving Early Infant Diagnosis (Eid) Testing Coverage and Retention in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (Pmtct) Programs Through Early Infant HIV Diagnosis at Birth.  —  N. Adibe 
2. Global Public Health Association Policies Related to Women, Children and Youth  —  F. Robards, H. Myers, D. Klein Walker 
3. Building Adolescent Research Capacity: The Co-Creation of the Health Hive Online Course  —  A. Todd 
4. Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Social Vulnerability: Impacts of the Brazilian Public Policy Rede Alyne  —  T. Santos 
5. Evaluating Performance of the Experimental Eq-Tips (V3) For Assessing Infants and Toddlers with Acute Infections: A Mixed-Methods Approach of Cognitive Debriefing and Psychometric Testing  —  J. Verstraete 
6. Short-Term Heat Exposure and Cumulative Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women Living with HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa  —  K. Mc Alpine 
7. The Grief of Black Women Facing the Homicide of Their Children  —  J. Pacheco 
8. Evaluating the Health and Economic Impact of Switching from Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation to Iron and Folic Acid in South Africa: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Scenario Outcomes  —  K. Mtombeni 
9. Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives on Contributing Factors to Under-Five Mortality in a Low-Income Setting: A Qualitative Study  —  K. Abitew 
10. Perspectives of Mothers of Preterm Infants Regarding Donor Milk  —  C. Ibekwe 
11. Aligning South Africa’s National Abortion Care Guideline with WHO Standards: Lessons from a Collaborative Policy Revision Process  —  S. Storey 
12. The Influence of Cultural Practices and Socioecomic Factors on Teenage Pregnancy Across Selected Primary Health Care Centres in Akinyele Local Government Area, Ibadan, Nigeria  —  A. Shimilimo 
13. Bridging the Gap: Investigating the Interplay Between Maternal Oral Health and Food Insecurity Among Pregnant Women in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa  —  S. Shongwe 
14. Unmet Oral Health Needs Among Paediatric Cancer Survivors: Ethical and Systemic Imperatives for Integrated Public Health Responses  —  N. Rampersad 

Station 2

Public Health Communication 

Chair: M. Puig-García

1. Reducing Stigma in Public Health Communication: Cross-Issue Insights from Three National Message Research Projects  —  K. May 
2. The Susceptibility to Health Misinformation Depends on the Addiction to Social Media and Political Views but Not on E-Health Literacy  —  M. Duplaga 
3. Exclusion from Health Information Among Socially Vulnerable Populations: An Intersectional Analysis in Brazil  —  A. Alecrim 
4. Health Ombudsman Services as Sentinel Systems for Detecting and Addressing Health Misinformation in Brazilian Communities  —  R. Vulpi 
5. To What Extent Does the Population Use and Understand Patient Information Leaflets for Medicines? A Cross-Sectional Study of Adults in Italy  —  N. Pelizzari 
6. Reflections on the Influence of the Media on Health: Online Social Networks, the Dissemination of Information and Health Production  —  F. Fernandes 
7. Co-Creation Insights into Demand Generation Strategies for Expanded Contraceptive Choice in South Africa.  —  H. Ngaba 
8. Global Burden and Trends of Invasive Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Infection from 1990 to 2021  —  J. Li 
9. Insights into Screening Barriers for Multidomain Disorders in Preschool Children from South Africa  —  Z. Peter 
10. Communication Strategies in Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy: Scoping Review  —  T. Couto 
11. Vaccine Hesitancy: Reflections from the Medical Professional's Perspective  —  R. Vulpi 

Station 3

Education & Leadership 

Chair: N. Ndubuka

1. Mapping the Public Health Competency Coverage of Global Physician Associate (Pa) And Pa Comparable Profession Education Curricula Using Looop Curriculum Mapping Tool  —  S. Smalley 
2. Evaluating Expanded Eligibility Pathways for Global Public Health Certification: A Pilot Study  —  A. Foster 
3. Determinants of Designing for Dissemination in Public Health Practice in the United States: A Mixed Methods Study  —  G. McLoughlin 
4. The Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Burnout Among Medical Laboratory Professionals in Georgetown, Guyana  —  D. Van-Veen 
5. Embedding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as a Strategic Management Task in Healthcare Organizations  —  S. Sgraja 
6. Alignment Across Public Health Competencies  —  A. Foster 
7. Leadership, Competencies, and System Readiness: A Comprehensive Assessment of Public Health Workforce Reform in Abu Dhabi  —  T. Alqadiri 
8. Challenges to emergency medical care students’ mental health and well-being during clinical training  —  E. Nell 
9. Exploring feedback-seeking behaviour in undergraduate dietetics students in a classroom context  —  N. Fredericks 
10. Violence Motivated by Religious Intolerance in Brazil: A Public Health Concern  —  M. Ito 
11. Mapping common job demands and job resources for large-scale community health worker programs in Southern Africa  —  R. Coley 
12. A comprehensive program to improve the occupational well-being among public-sector employees in the United Arab Emirates  —  A. Almarzouqi 
13. An investigation into the knowledge and practices of pesticides use and exposure by pest control officers in a municipality in South Africa  —  M. Mokoatle 

Station 1

Climate, One Health, Emergencies & Preparedness 

Chair: J. Shirinde

1. The One Health Concept Is the Key to a Healthy Future – or How to Prepare Leaders and Experts to Implement This Idea in the Functioning of Policies and Communities  —  T. Gosiewski 
2. It’s Time to Go Beyond Awareness and Advice: A Systematic Review and Policy Analysis of Heat-Protection Interventions for People Experiencing Homelessness.  —  A. Moses 
3. Favelas and Polycrises: An “insider and a Close-up View” and the Development of Hybrid Knowledge Through Systemic Risk Assessment with Young Researchers in Heliópolis, São Paulo, Brazil  —  L. Musumeci 
4. Youth Leadership in Public Health Emergencies: Models from Conflict and Climate-Affected Regions  —  D. Shellah 
5. Mapping the Regulatory Landscape for Environmental Sustainability of Medical Device Practices Within the European Union.  —  M. Zarro 
6. Flooding and Chemical Contamination Impacts on Human Health: A Global Scoping Review  —  S. Kovats 
7. Toward a Climate-Informed Predictive Risk Assessment for Occupational Hazards in Mining and Agriculture in Zimbabwe  —  B. Jani 
8. Climate Services for Diarrheal Diseases: The Benefit of Climate Information for Health Protection  —  S. Kovats 
9. Replacing Traditional Proteins with Alternative Protein Foods: Results of Two Systematic Reviews on Psychosocial and Environmental Determinants  —  A. Luszczynska 
10. Neighborhood Environment: Analysis of the Physical Availability and Affordability of Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco and Tobacco Products in Three Regions of Russia  —  A. Antsiferova 
11. Forecasting Lyme Borreliosis Based on Climatic Factors Using a Negative Binomial Model in the Baltic States  —  G. Kaliniene 
12. Quality assessment of a training course for critical patient care during the respiratory pandemic  —  L. Meira 
13. Empowering autonomy: high usability of dual HIV/syphilis and syphilis-only self- tests among key populations in Brazil  —  L. Magno 
14. Occupational Distress and Stress Biomarkers Among Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic  —  J. Savicevic 
15. Climate-Resilient Health Development: Policy Recommendations  —  M. Phomane 

Station 2

Equity, Minorities & Decolonisation 

Chair: M. Puig-García

1. Solidarity Kitchens and Decolonial Approaches to Public Health in Campinas, Brazil  —  N. Dantas 
2. Community-Based Approaches in Primary Health Care: A Perspective from Popular Health Education and Emancipatory Care  —  L. Zanardo 
3. Westernized Society’s Fragmenting of Public Health and Religion  —  M. Kaufman 
4. Striving for Partnership Equity: Lessons Learned During a Six-Year, Five-Country Global Health Research Collaboration  —  B. Phillips 
5. Negative Impacts of Oral Health Problems on the Quality of Life of Indigenous Communities in Brazil  —  L. Lutzke 
6. “between Orunmila and Socrates: Where African Culture Missed Its Path to Development and Modernity”  —  G. Tangwa 
7. Geoinformation Applied to Indigenous Oral Health  —  H. Mauricio 
8. Basic Sanitation Infrastructure and Access to Indigenous Prenatal Care in Northeastern Brazil  —  H. Mauricio 
9. Spotted Fever in Indigenous Communities from Atlantic Forest Areas of Southeastern Brazil  —  A. França 
10. Sankofa and Ubuntu: Re-Membering Ancestral Wisdom for Planetary Healing, Population Health, and Collective Liberation  —  B. Gripper 
11. The association between HIV testing modality and antiretroviral therapy initiation among adolescent boys and men who have sex with men in selected provinces of South Africa  —  B. Sebati 

Station 3

Digital Health & AI 

Chair: S. Salam

1. It Takes a Village: Education Sessions for Families of Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers in the Northern Provincial Hospital, Vanuatu  —  J. Martin 
2. Implementation and Evaluation of Syphilis Telemonitoring in Primary Health Care: An Innovative Approach to Public Health Management  —  D. Satie 
3. Enhancing Death Registration Through Electronic Medical Record Integration in Zambia: Linking the National Registration Information System with Smartcare to Strengthen Mortality Data for Public Health Decision-Making  —  K. Arhin-Wiredu 
4. Digital Mental Health Interventions in Indigenous and Traditional Communities of the Global South: A Scoping Review  —  E. Arias 
5. A Digital Health Approach to Addressing Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence and Mental Health Support in India  —  S. Varma 
6. Bridging the Digital Divide in Vulnerable Settings: Community-Led Digital Health Innovation for Nutrition Governance in the Philippines  —  A. Viar 
7. University Digital Health Hub: Innovations for the Digital Transformation of the National System Health  —  C. Fegadolli 
8. Helping Countries in Developing an Inclusive, Sustainable, and Equitable Digitalized Healthcare System: The Digital Public Health Maturity Index  —  L. Maaß 
9. Continuity of Care: A Systems-Level Gap in Digital Health–enabled Health Systems  —  S. Phadke 
10. Youth-Led Safeguarding Amid Digital Restrictions: How Boys and Young Men Protect Their Mental Health in Digital Spaces in Australia  —  R. Irving 
11. Parental needs and experiences with e-Health applications in chronic pediatric care – a scoping review  —  C. Pischke 
12. Digital EduHealth for the Well-Being of Minority University Students: A Scoping Review  —  J. Leal 

Station 1

Non-Communicable Diseases 

Chair: T. Dlungwane

1. Peripheral arterial disease screening in slovakia - already 10 years in the hands of general practitioners  —  K. Dostalova 
2. Prevalence of hypertension and diabetes, and associated risk factors among people living with HIV receiving haart in primary healthcare centers in Abuja, Nigeria  —  I. Orji 
3. Population-level incidence and temporal trends of first lower limb amputations among people with diabetes in the Western Cape, South Africa, using routine health record data (2008-2023)  —  J. Houghton 
4. Determining the incidence of breast cancer in mbekweni, paarl, South Africa, and the lived experiences of the women involved: a mixed-methods study  —  C. de Kock 
5. The dual burden of obesity and depression among university students in the United Arab Emirates  —  M. Mohammed Bashir 
6. Advancing oral health within public health systems: an assessment of primary school teachers in sedibeng district, South Africa.  —  M. Thekiso 
7. Patient beliefs and experiences of adhering to medical therapies for cardiovascular comorbidities, before non-cardiac elective surgery in South Africa: a mixed-methods study  —  O. Awoloto 
8. Exploring provider-perceived determinants of cervical pre-cancer treatment implementation at primary care level: a qualitative study in a health district in South Africa  —  S. Jiri 
9. Optimizing care pathways and quality of care for moderate-to-severe hypertension, diabetes and common mental health multimorbidity in mozambique (pen-connect)  —  K. Klipstein-Grobusch 
10. Beyond Treatment: A Five-Year Follow-up Cost Analysis from a South African Tertiary Hospital  —  K. Nnene 

Station 1

Digital Health & AI 

Chair: D. Beltrammi

1. Quality of internet-based public health strategies to prevent infectious diseases in Germany  —  N. Memisevic 
2. Leveraging seair modeling and time-series forecasting to optimize malaria interventions in Bauchi state, northwest, Nigeria  —  M. Onoja-Alexander 
3. Leveraging crossref application programming interface to identify policy-relevant research conducted in South Africa: a bibliometric analysis  —  L. Malinga 
4. Promoting health, producing harm? the health promotion paradox in youth-facing digital platforms  —  E. Opone 
5. Bridging the digital implementation gap: identifying determinants for the adoption of source-grounded living evidence in low- and middle-income primary care  —  L. Fairall 
6. Closing the evidence-to-practice gap: a scalable framework for strengthening national clinical guidance in the global south  —  L. Fairall 
7. Breaking the silence: a hybrid digital-community ecosystem for child sexual abuse prevention and healing in Kenya  —  E. Mbelenga 
8. Digital health in Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS): Advances and challenges for the consolidation of digital transformation  —  C. Costa das Chagas 
9. Implementing a Real-Time Excess Mortality Surveillance Dashboard in Uganda's DHIS2 platform  —  Martin Bulamu 

Station 1

Education & Leadership 

Chair: J. Pienaar

1. Reach of a capacity-building training based on the health-promoting schools framework among school actors from a large municipality in Brazil  —  V. Barbosa-Filho 
2. Primary health care as a practice field for family and community medicine residents in Brazil  —  R. De Paula 
3. The profile of family and community medicine residents in Brazil  —  R. De Paula 
4. Peoples-praxis (pp): a mentorship model for public health skills development in low- and middle-income countries (LMICS)  —  F. Ogunlayi 
5. Popular health education as a pillar for sexual and reproductive education in the Unified Health System, Brazil  —  G. Diogo de Souza 
6. Health analytics students' perceptions of learning applications of data science and health science: a descriptive qualitative study  —  N. Mwase 
7. PhD Mentorship Programme: An Emerging Community of Practice  —  T. Tolla 
8. Global benchmarking of public health education: opportunities for harmonization to advance health without borders  —  G. Kemper Seeley 

Station 2

Communicable Diseases 

Chair: N. Gloeck

1. Vulnerability in motion: socio-economic and service-seeking determinants of HIV risk among truckers and migrants in India  —  K. Biswas 
2. Multilevel determinants of tuberculosis treatment completion in a high-burden district of South Africa: a mixed-methods study  —  L. Bottoman 
3. Structural vulnerability and TB treatment adherence among a homeless HIV-positive patient in South Africa: a qualitative case study.  —  L. Bottoman 
4. Diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections during the june festivals using a public health testing strategy, 2024s diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections in the fique sabendo strategy during the june festivals in salvador, bahia, 2024  —  G. Cruz 
5. Analysis of the laboratory and diagnostic support network for leprosy care: a cross-sectional study  —  C. Laet 
6. Cost-effective diagnostic strategies for targeted mass screening campaigns: pooled genexpert vs. tb-lamp testing in Ethiopia  —  Z. Trife 
7. Non-specific effect of BCG in individuals with persistent symptoms of COVID-19  —  F. Barreto 
8. Clinical characteristics and risk factors for long COVID  —  F. Barreto 
9. Food insecurity among adults undergoing tuberculosis treatment in priority municipalities of Espírito Santo, Brazil  —  T. Nascimento do Prado 
10. Sociodemographic and Digital Access Factors Associated with Tuberculosis Treatment Supervision Strategies in Brazilian Municipalities  —  N. Zini 

Station 1

Communicable Diseases, Vaccines & AMR 

Chair: A. Hartwig

1. Exploring community perspectives on barriers and facilitators to childhood immunization among first nations peoples in northern saskatchewan: a qualitative sharing circle study  —  N. Ndubuka 
2. Exploring outreach nurses’ perspectives on the determinants of HPV vaccine uptake among age-eligible girls in matatiele, Eastern Cape, South Africa  —  A. Lebitsa 
3. Exploring the Use of Storytelling in Vaccination: A Scoping Review  —  M. B. Penka 
4. Associations between HIV knowledge, sexual risk behaviours, and HIV serostatus among university students in South Africa  —  T. Pillay 
5. Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections among patients with suspected or confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis  —  A. Mutshembele 
6. Application of the 7-1-7 framework to strengthen crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) outbreak response in khyber pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 2025  —  S. Jamil 
7. Health System- and Caregiver-Related Factors Influencing Measles Vaccination Uptake: Perspectives from Chadibe Village, Botswana  —  A. Sejie 
8. Factors Associated with Low HIV Testing Uptake Among Adolescents and Young Adults at Boitekanelo College, Botswana  —  A. Sejie 
9. A scalable community mobilisation model for fighting the spread of cholera across borders using Emergency Community Health Clubs. Lessons from Zimbabwe from one of the worst single outbreaks in decades in Africa  —  J. Waterkeyn