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BAPH symposium 2025 - Call for abstracts

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Published on 04 March 2025

BAPH wishes to give Belgian public health researchers, experts and practitioners the opportunity to present their research and/or practices related toto the topics of the symposium: one health, exposome, health promotion, and health prevention. 

Submitted abstracts should concern research, interventions, health policies, care practices related practices related to the topics of the symposium. Abstracts must be submitted and presented in English

Potential topics, but not limited to, include:

  • One health, 
  • Global health,
  • Health in all policies,
  • Exposome,
  • Health promotion, 
  • Health prevention,
  • Wellbeing economy

Each abstract will be evaluated by the scientific committee. After evaluation, each abstract will be assigned to one of the following categories:

  • Recommended for oral presentation (15 minutes)
  • Recommended for poster presentation (one slide/poster – 3 minutes)
  • Not recommended

A prize will be awarded for the best oral presentation and the best rapid-fire presentation.

With your agreement, the abstracts selected for an oral or poster presentation will be published in a special issue of the scientific journal Archives of Public Health.

An abstract must be sent via the online form with the following content:

  • Presenter: Name, first name, affiliation, email address of the person submitting the abstract
  • Title of the presentation and authors: Title of presentation and list of author(s)
  • Abstract: Maximum 400 words, structure (background, methods or description fieldwork, results or observations, conclusion).
  • Main messages: maximum 100 words, two short messages which summarize the main impact in relation to public health inequities
  • Acknowledgements: for example: funding, survey participants, etc.   
  • Agreement to publish the abstract in Archives of Public Health (if selected): Give your consent or not.

Procedure and deadlines:

  • End of call for abstract: Friday April 11, 2025 at noon
  • Evaluation of abstracts: April 2025
  • Results of the evaluation and selection of abstracts: April-May 2025

In case of late submission, please contact

If your abstract is accepted, you will be required to register for the symposium. You can register here :

  • Free registration for members of the association
  • Price of 50 EUR for non-members (20 EUR for students). If you wish to become a member of the association, this price can cover your membership for the year 2024.