Conference Overview
The HEAL National Research Network is hosting its annual conference from 4 - 6 November 2025, building on the resounding success of its first four conferences in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
HEAL 2025, with the theme of 'Weaving Diverse Knowledges into Climate Action for Better Health’, will provide a dynamic, inclusive and decentralised platform for diverse research, policy and practice communities within the HEAL Network to come together sharing knowledge, evidence and ideas.
Over three days, HEAL 2025 will deliver opportunities to discuss the leading health, climate and environmental challenges we face in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and internationally. We will discuss how the HEAL Network is addressing these challenges, shaping innovative research to support Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and helping to translate research into responsible policy practices such as more sustainable healthcare and climate-resilient communities.
In line with HEAL’s core commitment to supporting and elevating Australian First Nations and grassroot leadership and knowledges, we will be highlighting inspiring case studies from communities who are on the frontlines of climate and environmental change.
The hybrid conference will be delivered online nationally and internationally, and at in-person at eight regional nodes across Australia, providing multiple avenues for delegates to participate and connect with each other.
Please register here to attend (no registration fees).
We look forward to welcoming you to HEAL 2025!
Kind regards,
Prof Sotiris Vardoulakis & A/Prof Veronica Matthews
HEAL 2025 Conference Co-Chairs
On behalf of the HEAL National Research Network
Call for Abstracts - Now Open!
We are inviting abstracts for posters or oral presentations addressing the HEAL 2025 research themes,abstract submissions will open on Monday 16 June 2025 and close by COB Friday 29 August 2025. Abstract notifications will be emailed in mid-late September.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and knowledge translation for building resilience to environmental change
- Health system resilience to climate change and sustainability
- Bushfires, air pollution, and their impact on physical, mental, and community health
- Food, soil and water safety and security in a changing environment
- Biosecurity, and emerging infections in the context of environmental change
- Urban health, built environment and nature-based solutions
- Rural and remote health and climate-related disasters
- At-risk populations, early life effects and life-course solutions
- Data and decision support systems for environmental health applications
- Science communication, citizen science, and risk perception
- Climate change and mental health and wellbeing
- Environmental change and health in the Asia-Pacific
Speakers
Sustainability
HEAL strives to increase sustainability and reduce our carbon footprint as part of our commitment to improving the health of all people and the environment, and the HEAL 2025 Conference has been designed to reflect this ethos. The hybrid format of the conference, with full online coverage and regional in-person sessions in all Australian states and territories, aims to stimulate interaction and minimise travel, energy use and waste. Information and tips on how to reduce the carbon footprint of your participation in the conference can be found in the HEAL 2025 Sustainability Statement.
