The Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) Partnership will host its Annual Conference 2026 as a one-day pre-conference session at the European Public Health Conference in Bilbao. The event will bring together policymakers, researchers, institutions, practitioners, ecosystems and THCS-funded projects to explore how health and care systems can be transformed to address today’s most pressing societal challenges.

Aligned with the priorities of the European public health community and with the overarching theme of the EPH Conference, the event will focus on interconnected entry points for system transformation: climate resilience, circularity, urban and rural health systems, equity, and research and innovation priorities.

In this perspective, the conference will highlight how THCS contributes to European public health priorities by fostering collaboration across countries, sectors, disciplines and levels of governance. It will also explore how research and innovation can be translated into concrete transformative actions, embedded into health and care systems, and scaled across different territorial and organisational contexts.

Thematic Sessions

• Session 1 – Healing Without Harming: Climate-Ready Health and Care Systems
• Session 2 – From Cities to villages: transformative ecosystems driving system change
• Session 3 – Who Benefits from Transformation? Equity, Access and Inclusion
• Session 4 – What the R&I Community Wants: Priorities for Climate Resilience, Equity and Innovation

Find detailed description of the sessions here