12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

“Safe, Sustainable, Strong: Building Healthy Environments for Every Child”

 

6- 8th of May 2026

 

INCHES is looking forward to the future of children.

We are organizing the 12th edition of the International Conference on Children’s Health and Environment.

The location is at the University of Cairo, Egypt. The organizing committee thinks it is important for the scientific community to interact with other scientists, but also with policy makers and other stakeholders. How many new ideas do spark during the breaks of conferences?  How many good suggestions do you get for your own research? So we decide to go for another live conference. The 8th of May is dedicated to specific training for young researchers in collaboration with senior participants of the conference.

It is an important opportunity to share experiences and scientific advances about children’s health and environment. Scientists, Policy Makers, Paediatricians, Nurses, Doctors, Educators, Urban planners, Interest groups, are all asked to contribute to this international conference.

6 & 7 th of May are the conference days. The 8th of May is dedicated for worokshops and training sessions. Program to be announced soonn.

Call for abstracts

The scope of the conference will include but is not be limited to the following topics distributed in 4 areas:

  • Threats to children’s environmental health
    • Climate Change, air and soil pollution, noise, food and malnutrition, safety of drinking water, drugs, e-waste, medical waste, deforestation, exposure to biological factors, degradation of biodiversity, poverty and environmental injustice
  • Challenges in children environmental health
    • Child and adult diseases due to environmental degradation: asthma, cancer, neurodevelopment disorders, endocrine disorders….
    • Economic costs of diseases and inequity
    • Urban development and children’s health
    • Changes in interpersonal and community relations
    • Cohort studies
  • Opportunities
    • Social issues, participation, increasing awareness in society of the interrelationship of health and environment
    • Sensorisation of life: digital age issues: stress, gaming, blue light
    • New professional profiles ‘Health and Environment’: professionals adapted to a “child and environmental health” culture
    • Plasticity, optimal child and adolescent development, cognitive development
  • Roadmap
    • Biomonitoring
    • Urban planning (greening the environment)
    • Exposome
    • Pediatric environmental health units
    • Clinical tools: the green page and the paediatric environmental history,
    • Education, training and advocacy in children environmental health,
    • Healthy school environments

For participation at the conference have to register at the registration page of the website.

See for more information on abstracts requirements below.

If you like to make an oral presentation or present a poster you have to submit an abstract.

Submit at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inches12

All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the International Scientific Committee and assigned to the appropriate session for a paper, symposium, workshop or poster presentation.

 

Deadline for submitting abstracts: February 1st, 2026

Registration fee: € 150, students € 50. However, additional donations are welcome.

We are opting for a voluntary financial contribution for the expenses we have to make for inviting young scientists or students from LMIC. But any amount higher is very welcome.

 

Abstract requirements

Please note that all fields must be completed for the abstract to be considered by the scientific committee.

You need to add this information on the abstract form.

Title:

Presenter (s):

Organization (s):

Contact information mail and telephone:

Abstract (max 400 words) (introduction, method, results, conclusions). Use Arial as font!

Link to submit abstracts: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inches12

You can login at that submission site. Also for submission details.

Authors will be notified on acceptance for their abstract before 15th of February.

Each person registering for the conference (and not having an Egyptian passport) will have to submit a copy of their passport for security reasons before March 1st, 2026 to be allowed to enter the University of Cairo.

 The call for abstracts can be found at: abstract submission.  Send an email to: info<at>inchesnetwork.net for any other question.