Welcome to the Seventh Annual Meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 5-8 July 2022
Evolutionary Medicine is an integrative area bringing evolutionary biologists and medical scientists together to facilitate the application of concepts and approaches from evolutionary biology to medical research and medical practice. This field is growing rapidly and its relevance to society and medicine has been made all the more obvious with the recent pandemic.
ISEMPH 2022 welcomes researchers, clinicians, public health professionals, and students at all levels as well as anyone interested in this integrative view of evolutionary biology and medicine. The meeting will gather delegates from around the world. For many of us this will be the first opportunity in two years to reconnect, and to consolidate new and ongoing collaborations, while promoting important cross-talk among all disciplines that influence the field of Evolutionary Medicine.
ISEMPH sponsors annual meetings, the Oxford University Press journal Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health, The Evolution and Medicine Review, EvMedEd, and ClubEvMed.
Contacts: HostingCommittee@isemph.org ProgramCommittee@isemph.org
Continuing Medical Education Credits (CME)
The Seventh annual meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Lisbon, Portugal, 05/07/2022-08/07/2022 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 20 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/earn-credit-participation-international-activities.
Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Interest in CME can be indicated on the congress registration form.
Important Dates
Pre-conference events
July 4, 2022 - Lisbon, Portugal
Zoobiquity Conferences explore the phylogenetic origins of health and illness by promoting interdisciplinarycollaborations between human, animal and environmental health professionals. Hosted by the Portuguese Medical Association and Portuguese Veterinary Medical Association, this year's conference has the theme of Female Health Across the Tree of Life and is dedicated to investigating the unique disease resistance of some females and the shared biological vulnerabilities of female animals. Women’s health challenges to be explored include ovarian and breast cancer, osteoporosis, pre-eclampsia, reproductive senescence and infertility. For more information and to register, please see the program listing and registration page.
July 2 - 5, 2022 - Lisbon, Portugal
This four-day workshop is an opportunity for early career researchers to join field leaders in evolutionary medicine and public health (EMPH) and in the philosophy of biology and medicine for a series of intensive discussions. Rather than simply teaching the state of the field, the aim is to progress key issues in the foundations of evolutionary medicine and to encourage researchers in the philosophy of science and medicine to engage more closely with the field of EMPH. 12 subsidized positions are available for early career researchers For more information and to register, please see the program listing. |
Post-conference events
July 9, 2022 - Lisbon, Portugal Olissippo Hotel, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. This workshop is free for participants to attend, but limited to 20 participants. To register for the workshop and receive more details, please contact Tanja Ball: tanja.ball@medunigraz.at You can download the flyer here. |
The conference will be held at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG, in the Portuguese acronym) in Lisbon. FCG is a pleasant, iconic, and easily accessible place in the center of Lisbon, with ample indoor and outdoor spaces. Around the FCG, there are many options for accommodation and food, covering a wide range of prices and styles, suitable for all.
Lisbon offers a variety of hotels at any price category. We have arranged special prices for ISEMPH 2022 attendees.
You can find information on travel and hotel reservation here. Please make sure that you book your hotel including breakfast. Travel insurance is the responsibility of each attendee.
Host Institutions
Program Committee
Michael Hochberg PhD (chair), University of Montpellier, France; Santa Fe Institute, USA
Jay Labov PhD, STEM Education Consultant, The TERC Institutional Review Board, Massachusetts, USA
Ruth Mace PhD, University College London, UK
Hinrich Schulenburg PhD, Kiel University, Germany
Beverly Strassmann PhD, Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, USA