The 5th International Online Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health

We are delighted to welcome you to the 5th International Online Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health (OCERPH 2027), which will be hosted online and promoted by the open access MDPI journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN: 1660-4601). This conference is co-organized by other journals within MDPI’s Journal Cluster of Public Health, including Infectious Disease Reports, Epidemiologia, Occupational Health, International Journal of Environmental Medicine, Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, Hygiene, Trends in Public Health, Digital Health and Innovation, Green Health and Health Economics and Policy.

As you can see from the wonderful and wide-ranging corpus of journals supporting this conference, we aim to provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers around the world to present their cutting-edge public health research. As shown by the main conference topics listed below, we intend to provide contemporary and stimulating presentations and discussions on some of the key public health challenges that we face today and are likely to face into the future. This conference represents a unique opportunity for public health researchers around the world to share their latest research, communicate with each other, solve problems, and suggest alternative options for creating a better future.

The main topics and sessions of the conference are as follows:

S1. Social, Economic or Political Determinants in Generating, Maintaining, or Reducing Health Disparities
S2. Environmental Justice and Population Wellbeing
S3. Economic, Industrial and Commercial Drivers of Health Equity: Market Systems, Corporate Actors and Industrial Impacts on Population Health
S4. Public Health in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation
S5. Responding to New/Emerging Public Health Threats in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)

In keeping with our public health mission to reduce our carbon footprint and impact positively on planetary health, this will be a purely online conference. This not only helps us move towards meeting our Net Zero target but also enables students and researchers around the world (in the Global South and North) to participate without the costs or concerns over travel.

I am particularly excited to see as many doctoral students and early-career researchers as possible present their work. We all know that some of the most innovative and exciting research starts with doctoral students and then shifts toward early-career researchers testing out novel ideas. Without this, progress can stifle.

We hope you will join us for this critically important international event and lend your voice to a global conversation that will promote health equity for communities worldwide.

Kind regards,
Conference Chair
Prof. Dr. Paul R. Ward
School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia

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