The 5th International Online Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health
The Social, Political and Commercial Determinants of Health
The OCERPH 2027 is now OPEN for Abstract Submission and Registration.
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the chair
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:
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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Meet Our Chair
School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia;I am Professor of Public Health Sociology in the School of Society and Culture. I currently lead two ARC Discovery Projects and an NHMRC Ideas project, both of which meld sociological theories and contemporary public health problems. My interdisciplinary research is situated at the intersections of health, medicine, risk, trust, hope and (in)equity, and the theoretical and methodological lenses that we bring to these intersections. My main research interests are around socio-spatial inequities in health and healthcare usage, in addition to lay and professional perceptions, knowledge and understandings of health, healthcare, medicines, risk, hope and trust. In addition, given my experience in both qualitative and quantitative research, I have an interest in research which seeks to utilise the benefits of a pluralistic and multi-disciplinary bricolage approach to understanding how to support and improve human flourishing.
Important Dates
24 Jul
2026
15 Mar
2027
12 Apr
2027
7 Jul
2027
Meet Our Speaker
Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University Australia, Berwick, Australia;Professor Aziz Rahman is an experienced academic, a medical doctor and a public health professional. He has worked in public health research and teaching for over 20 years in Australian and international settings. He has an excellent track record of providing leadership in completing different research and community projects successfully, focusing on various aspects of public health, securing funding, producing high-quality research publications, supervising higher degree research students, assisting in capacity building and providing supportive supervision to the early/mid-career researchers and collaborating successfully with experienced researchers. Aziz has published more than 250 research papers in multidisciplinary journals with more than 196,000 citations. He has extensive international research collaborations with over 25 countries and has successfully led several multi-country research projects with significant outputs. He has been listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists consistently for the last seven years (2020-26). Aziz is currently working as the Professor of Public Health and Associate Dean of Research at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University Australia.
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Ms. Daria-Maria Tega
Mr. Ionut Spatar
Mr. Russell Wang
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