EPHP Conference 2026 to convene national dialogue on building future-focused health systems at IIM Bangalore
Fifth edition of ‘Evidence to Public Health Policy’ to be held from 8th to 10th June
6 May, 2026, Bengaluru: IIM Bangalore will host the fifth edition of the national conference on Bringing Evidence to Public Health Policy (EPHP 2026) from 8–10 June 2026, bringing together leading researchers, practitioners and policymakers in public health. Experts will deliberate on the disruptive innovation and mounting pressures shaping the future of health systems, under the theme ‘Future-Focused Health Systems in a Changing Context’.
The theme for the year’s conference draws itself from the Health Systems Research Symposium 2026 to be held in Dubai later this year, but shifts the lens to regional and national priorities.
Prof. Arnab Mukherji, Professor of Public Policy and Chairperson of the PGPPM programme at IIMB, serves as the co-organizer of the conference.
EPHP is designed to surface grounded insights from the Asia Pacific context, where health systems are navigating overlapping pressures such as climate events, pandemics, digital transitions and geopolitical shifts that are often layered upon deeper structural inequities.
This fifth edition is being organized by the T.T. Narasimhan School of Advanced Studies at the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru (IPH Bengaluru), in partnership with Health Systems Global (Asia Pacific Region), The George Institute for Global Health, IIM Bangalore, and the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp.
EPHP 2026 seeks to extend conversations beyond resilience as a response framework. The conference foregrounds the need for adaptive, forward-looking approaches to system transformation, grounded in local knowledge and institutional realities. The four sub-themes of the conference span governance and diplomacy in a fractured global order, the role of plural actors and partnerships, the interplay of digital platforms and public participation, and the intersection of human and ecological concerns, offering an integrated view of how such transformation may be pursued.
EPHP Conference 2026 to convene national dialogue on building future-focused health systems at IIM Bangalore
Fifth edition of ‘Evidence to Public Health Policy’ to be held from 8th to 10th June
6 May, 2026, Bengaluru: IIM Bangalore will host the fifth edition of the national conference on Bringing Evidence to Public Health Policy (EPHP 2026) from 8–10 June 2026, bringing together leading researchers, practitioners and policymakers in public health. Experts will deliberate on the disruptive innovation and mounting pressures shaping the future of health systems, under the theme ‘Future-Focused Health Systems in a Changing Context’.
The theme for the year’s conference draws itself from the Health Systems Research Symposium 2026 to be held in Dubai later this year, but shifts the lens to regional and national priorities.
Prof. Arnab Mukherji, Professor of Public Policy and Chairperson of the PGPPM programme at IIMB, serves as the co-organizer of the conference.
EPHP is designed to surface grounded insights from the Asia Pacific context, where health systems are navigating overlapping pressures such as climate events, pandemics, digital transitions and geopolitical shifts that are often layered upon deeper structural inequities.
This fifth edition is being organized by the T.T. Narasimhan School of Advanced Studies at the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru (IPH Bengaluru), in partnership with Health Systems Global (Asia Pacific Region), The George Institute for Global Health, IIM Bangalore, and the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp.
EPHP 2026 seeks to extend conversations beyond resilience as a response framework. The conference foregrounds the need for adaptive, forward-looking approaches to system transformation, grounded in local knowledge and institutional realities. The four sub-themes of the conference span governance and diplomacy in a fractured global order, the role of plural actors and partnerships, the interplay of digital platforms and public participation, and the intersection of human and ecological concerns, offering an integrated view of how such transformation may be pursued.
