12th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment

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

6 – 8 May 2026

International Network on Children’s Health, Environment & Safety
Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

We are writing to request your participation at the 12th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment, to be held on-site  on 6, 7 and 8th of May 2026, at the University of  Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. It is an important opportunity to share experiences and scientific advances about children’s health and environment. Scientists, Policy Makers, Pediatricians, Nurses, Doctors, Educators, Urban planners, Interest groups, are all asked to contribute to this international conference. International accreditation points secured!

You are invited to submit an abstract before 15th of April 2026. See abstract submission link below. Abstracts for posters or short presentations are welcome. Acceptance of abstracts are notified to you before 20th of April 2026. This option is for ONLINE presentation for anyone outside of Egypt (please register for €50) or for Egyptian citizens also for live participation.

On 8th of May we organise a training or workshop day. You can register for more than on session. Depending on the number of registrations we will organise the trainings in two parallel sessions.

The training/workshop day is free of charge.

Regsitration for workshop/training: registration form

The training/workshop day is scheduled as follows:

  • Workshop: Green Page: how to screen for environmental exposures in a clinical setting. Moderator: Ferran Campillo i López
    Unitat de Salut Mediambiental Pediàtrica; Equip Pediàtric Territorial de la Garrotxa; Hospital d’Olot Comarcal de la Garrotxa, Spain
  • Exposome research in children with physical and social exposures; Moderator: Peter van den Hazel, INCHES
  • Human-Centered Design for Climate and Mental Health: The Climental Approach. Moderator: Dr. Mohammad Issa
  • Training: Environmental Epidemiology. Moderator Hanns Moshammer, ISDE and Medicall University Vienna
  • Training ONLINE: Environmental Public Health. Moderator: Ariana Zeka. Science Lead and Head of Environmental Epidemiology
    UK Health Security Agency
  • Workshop: Children and environmental health: an introduction. Moderators Stephan Böse-O’Reilly and Peter van den Hazel
  • Workshop: From Birth to Beyond: Scaling up Breastfeeding Practices Worldwide. Moderator: Dina Abu Zeid, IBCLC, Assistant Professor of Child Health

ORGANIZERS:
International Network for Children’s Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES) Dr. Peter van den Hazel

Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University – Dr. Omar Ahmed Azzam – Dr. Mahmoud El Fiky

Co-organised by ISDE

Support from: Pediatric Department at Ain Shams University and Cairo University, – Ass.Prof. Dina Abu Zeid

Leaflet for additional ONLINE presentations

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Leaflet about 12th Conference

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The conference has the following objectives:

  • to provide an international forum for the latest research findings in children’s environmental health
  • to define the relationship between environmental contaminants and children’s health
  • to emphasize the importance of prenatal exposure to environmental factors on child and mother health
  • to create awareness about the relationship between children’s health and the environment
  • to initiate and direct future research in the field of children’s environmental health.

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

  • Global Challenges on mother & child health
  • Environmental risk for children’s health
  • Climate Change and its impact to health
  • Waste problems (e-waste, medical waste)
  • Lessons learned (Experience of countries)

There are live presentations and possibilities for live-streaming presentations, pre-recorded presentation and posters.

See for registration: INCHES registration form

Registration fee: € 150, students € 50. Persons from Low/Middle Income countries and from Africa can request a free registration by sending an email to info<at>inchesnetwork.net (change the <at> for an @).

For richer participants an additional amount of registration fee or donations are welcome.

For abstract submission first login or create account at https://easychair.org/

Then go to: Abstracts 12  Click on: make a new submission

Deadline for new submitting abstracts: 15th of April 2026.

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 5th of March.

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.

For more information go to www.inchesnetwork.net  See also more information on call for abstracts
Conference languages: English .