🦠 Advancing Meningitis Prevention Through Spatiotemporal Epidemiology

🎤 Speaker Spotlight | G-PHEC 2026

The Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026) is pleased to feature Ahmad Muhammad Aliyu from the Nigerian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Nigeria, as an Oral Presentation (Virtual) speaker.

Presentation Title

Impact of Cerebrospinal Meningitis Vaccination on Outbreak Dynamics in Kebbi State, Nigeria: A Spatiotemporal Evaluation, 2025–2026

Meningitis outbreaks remain an important public health concern, particularly in regions where infectious disease transmission can place significant pressure on healthcare systems and communities. Effective vaccination programs, timely surveillance, and targeted outbreak response are essential tools for reducing disease burden and protecting vulnerable populations.

In this presentation, Ahmad Muhammad Aliyu examines the impact of cerebrospinal meningitis vaccination on outbreak dynamics in Kebbi State, Nigeria, using a spatiotemporal approach to understand how vaccination and geographic patterns interact with disease occurrence.

The research highlights the importance of combining vaccination data, epidemiological surveillance, geographic information, and temporal trends to better understand meningitis outbreaks and evaluate the effectiveness of public health interventions.

🔎 Why This Research Matters

• Examines the relationship between vaccination and meningitis outbreak patterns.

• Highlights the importance of spatial and temporal epidemiological analysis.

• Supports evidence-based vaccination and outbreak response strategies.

• Demonstrates the value of surveillance in monitoring vaccine-preventable diseases.

• Provides insights relevant to public health preparedness and emergency response.

• Contributes to strengthening meningitis prevention strategies in affected communities.

With extensive experience in outbreak investigation, surveillance evaluation, vaccine-preventable diseases, spatial epidemiology, and public health emergency response, Ahmad Muhammad Aliyu brings valuable field epidemiology perspectives to this important topic.

🌍 Turning epidemiological data into targeted action for stronger disease prevention and outbreak preparedness.

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🌍 Connect. Learn. Share. Make an Impact.

The Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026) welcomes professionals and researchers from across the global health community to participate in an inspiring scientific and networking experience.

The congress provides a platform for researchers, clinicians, epidemiologists, healthcare professionals, students, academics, policymakers, and industry experts to share knowledge and explore innovative solutions to today's most important public health challenges.

🔬 What Can You Expect?

Participants can look forward to opportunities to:

✨ Discover emerging research in public health and epidemiology
✨ Learn from experienced researchers and international experts
✨ Exchange ideas across multiple scientific disciplines
✨ Build meaningful professional collaborations
✨ Present and discuss innovative research
✨ Explore new approaches to improving population health

The congress brings together diverse perspectives across areas such as infectious diseases, epidemiology, environmental and climate health, health equity, mental health, chronic diseases, healthcare innovation, injury prevention, and more.

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Global health challenges require collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing. By participating in G-PHEC 2026, you can connect with a diverse scientific community and contribute to discussions that can help shape the future of public health.

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🌍 When Sleep Becomes a Signal of Climate Vulnerability

🎤 Featured Speaker | G-PHEC 2026

We're delighted to feature Victor de Oliveira Liberale from Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, at the Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026). He is a physician trained in Internal Medicine and Sleep Medicine whose work focuses on the intersection of sleep, population health, and social vulnerability.

Presentation

Sleep as an early warning signal of heat-related climate vulnerability: A public health framework for urban surveillance

What if changes in sleep could help identify communities at risk from extreme heat before severe health outcomes occur?

This innovative presentation explores sleep disruption as a potential early warning signal for heat-related climate vulnerability. It highlights how night-time heat, poor housing, urban heat islands, noise, overcrowding, and limited access to cooling can contribute to disrupted sleep and reduced ability to adapt to heat.

The proposed public health framework considers sleep quality, night-time awakenings, difficulty returning to sleep, non-restorative sleep, and next-day fatigue as potential surveillance indicators during heat events. These measures could complement conventional heat-health systems and help identify vulnerable populations earlier.

The approach is particularly relevant for older adults, people living with chronic diseases, shift workers, low-income households, and residents of densely populated urban areas, who may face greater exposure or reduced access to protective resources.

🌡️ Key Areas of Interest

• Climate change and population health

• Heat-related health risks

• Sleep and environmental health

• Urban heat vulnerability

• Social determinants of climate vulnerability

• Public health surveillance

• Climate adaptation and health equity

• Digital and community-based health monitoring

🚀 Discover how an everyday health indicator like sleep could become a powerful tool for earlier, more equitable climate-health action.

🔗 Speaker Profile

🔗 Presentation

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🌟 Exploring Health Inequalities in Dermatology Care

🎤 Featured Speaker | G-PHEC 2026

The Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026) is delighted to feature Lakshaajeni Thevapalan, Resident Doctor at James Paget University Hospital, United Kingdom. She brings a strong interest in global health and has undertaken an elective in Tanzania focusing on tropical disease and chronic skin conditions.

Presentation

Geographic and epidemiological insights into Dermatology care access in Tanzania: A retrospective study

Dermatological conditions represent a significant but often under-recognised public health burden, particularly in regions where specialist healthcare resources are limited.

This presentation examines patterns of dermatology care access in Tanzania and highlights the geographic inequalities that can prevent patients from receiving specialist services. The retrospective study analysed routinely collected data from the Regional Dermatology Training Centre in Moshi, providing important evidence on disease patterns, patient demographics, and geographical access to specialist care.

The findings highlight the need to strengthen primary-care dermatology expertise and consider innovative approaches such as teledermatology, task-sharing, and decentralisation of specialist services. These strategies could help reduce unnecessary long-distance travel and improve continuity of care for people living with chronic skin conditions.

🌍 Key Areas of Interest

• Dermatology and global health

• Healthcare access and health equity

• Epidemiology of skin diseases

• Geographic disparities in healthcare

• Primary-care capacity building

• Teledermatology and digital health

• Healthcare system strengthening

Be part of the scientific conversation exploring how data-driven research and innovative healthcare models can help make specialist care more accessible and equitable.

🚀 From epidemiological evidence to equitable care—discover new perspectives on global dermatology and health-system access.

🔗 Speaker Profile:
https://globalpublichealthcongress.com/speaker/lakshaajeni-thevapalan

🔗 Presentation:
https://globalpublichealthcongress.com/program/scientific-program/2026/geographic-and-epidemiological-insights-into-dermatology-care-access-in-tanzania-a-retrospective-study

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🌟 Uncovering New Mechanisms Behind Cancer Cell Division

🎤 Featured Speaker | G-PHEC 2026

We're pleased to feature Eleni Petsalaki at the Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026).

Presentation

Actin polymerization prevents chromatin bridge breakage in cytokinesis in human cancer cells via a new tension sensitive mechanism

How do cancer cells maintain chromosome stability during cell division?

This presentation explores a fascinating cellular mechanism in which actin polymerization and mechanical tension play a role in preventing chromatin bridge breakage during cytokinesis in human cancer cells.

Understanding these processes can provide important insights into how abnormalities during cell division contribute to genomic instability and cancer biology. The research offers an opportunity to explore the complex interaction between the cytoskeleton, mechanical forces, and chromosome integrity.

🔬 Key Areas of Interest

• Cancer cell division and cytokinesis

• Actin polymerization and cytoskeletal dynamics

• Chromatin bridge stability

• Mechanical tension in cellular processes

• Genomic stability and cancer biology

• Emerging molecular mechanisms in cancer research

Join researchers and healthcare professionals from around the world to explore innovative scientific discoveries and emerging perspectives in public health, medicine, and biomedical research.

🚀 Discover the science behind cellular stability and explore new perspectives in cancer research.

🔗 Speaker Profile:
https://globalpublichealthcongress.com/speaker/eleni-petsalaki

🔗 Presentation:
https://globalpublichealthcongress.com/program/scientific-program/2026/actin-polymerization-prevents-chromatin-bridge-breakage-in-cytokinesis-in-human-cancer-cells-via-a-new-tension-sensitive-mechanism

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🌍 Injury & Violence Prevention: Advancing Safer and Healthier Communities

📢 Scientific Topic Spotlight | G-PHEC 2026

Injuries and violence remain major and often preventable public health challenges, contributing to premature mortality, disability, psychological trauma, and long-term social and economic consequences. Addressing these challenges requires strong epidemiological evidence, effective surveillance systems, community engagement, and coordinated prevention strategies.

The Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026) provides a platform for researchers, epidemiologists, healthcare professionals, policymakers, injury prevention specialists, and public health experts to explore innovative approaches under the scientific topic Injury and Violence Prevention.

🔎 Understanding the Drivers of Injury and Violence

Research in this area examines how environmental, behavioral, social, and structural factors influence injury and violence risks. Road traffic conditions, occupational hazards, falls, alcohol use, urban environments, social inequalities, exposure to trauma, and other determinants can all contribute to preventable harm.

The scientific topic also highlights the importance of surveillance and integrated data systems. Information from healthcare facilities, trauma registries, law enforcement sources, and population surveys can help identify patterns, vulnerable populations, emerging risks, and opportunities for targeted intervention.

🌟 Areas of Research Include

• Road traffic injury prevention and transport safety

• Falls and unintentional injury prevention

• Occupational injuries and workplace safety

• Interpersonal, domestic, and community violence

• Child and youth injury prevention

• Injury surveillance and epidemiological research

• Community-based violence prevention

• Emergency and trauma care systems

• Environmental and built-environment safety

• Social and behavioral determinants of injury and violence

• Data analytics and geospatial approaches to prevention

💡 From Evidence to Prevention

Effective injury and violence prevention depends on translating research into practical action. Evidence can support safer transport systems, improved emergency response, stronger community programs, better workplace protections, and policies designed to reduce preventable deaths and disabilities.

By bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives, G-PHEC 2026 encourages collaboration and knowledge exchange aimed at creating safer, healthier, and more resilient communities worldwide.

📢 Have research in Injury & Violence Prevention? Share your findings, connect with global experts, and contribute to the future of public health.

🔗 Explore the Scientific Topic:
https://globalpublichealthcongress.com/program/scientific-topics/injury-and-violence-prevention

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🌍Advancing Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Healthcare

The Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026) is delighted to welcome Dr. Haroon Haider Khan** **from ROOTS IVY International, Pakistan, as a distinguished speaker presenting innovative research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare.

Presentation Title

Novel REST block for gradient optimization in deep learning models

Artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare by enabling faster, more accurate, and more reliable diagnostic systems. However, training deep learning models often faces challenges such as unstable gradients, overfitting, and slow convergence, which can limit their performance in medical applications.

In this presentation, Dr. Haroon Haider Khan introduces the REST Block, an innovative deep learning architecture designed to stabilize gradient optimization and improve model performance. By integrating residual learning, efficient channel attention, stochastic depth, and dense network components, the proposed framework enhances learning efficiency while reducing computational complexity. The approach demonstrated outstanding performance across multiple medical imaging datasets, achieving faster convergence, improved optimization, and high predictive accuracy for image segmentation tasks.

This session highlights how advanced AI architectures can strengthen medical image analysis, support clinical decision-making, and accelerate the adoption of intelligent healthcare technologies.

Why Attend This Session?

• Discover innovative approaches to deep learning optimization.

• Learn how AI improves medical image segmentation.

• Explore solutions to vanishing and exploding gradient challenges.

• Understand the role of machine learning in healthcare innovation.

• Gain insights into next-generation AI models for biomedical applications.

Whether you're an AI researcher, data scientist, healthcare professional, biomedical engineer, clinician, or public health researcher, this presentation offers valuable perspectives on the future of intelligent healthcare technologies.

🔗 Speaker Profile:
https://globalpublichealthcongress.com/speaker/haroon-haider-khan

🔗 Scientific Program:
https://globalpublichealthcongress.com/program/scientific-program/2026/novel-rest-block-for-gradient-optimization-in-deep-learning-models

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🌍 Turn Your Research into Global Impact

📢 Call for Abstracts | Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026)

Every breakthrough in public health begins with a question, an idea, or a discovery. The Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026) invites researchers, clinicians, epidemiologists, healthcare professionals, academicians, students, and policymakers from around the world to submit their original research and become part of a global scientific platform dedicated to advancing public health and epidemiology.

Whether your work explores infectious diseases, chronic disease prevention, health policy, environmental health, epidemiology, digital health, health equity, or emerging public health challenges, this is your opportunity to present your findings, exchange ideas, and collaborate with experts shaping the future of healthcare. Submitted abstracts are reviewed by an expert scientific committee, and accepted submissions are eligible for oral or poster presentations and inclusion in the conference proceedings.

Why Submit Your Abstract?

• Showcase your research on an international stage.

• Present your work through oral or poster presentations.

• Connect with renowned researchers and healthcare leaders.

• Receive valuable feedback from multidisciplinary experts.

• Expand your professional network and collaboration opportunities.

• Contribute to innovative solutions addressing global public health challenges.

Your research can inspire change, influence policy, and improve health outcomes worldwide.

📄 Submit your abstract today and become part of a global movement advancing public health research.

🔗 Abstract Submission:
https://globalpublichealthcongress.com/abstract-submission

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