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CS4Health 2025 conference focuses on diverse types of multidisciplinary scientific collaborations between citizens, patients, medical staff, healthcare providers, researchers, students, policymakers, funding agencies, and companies. This includes approaches that go under different names, such as citizen science, personal science, patient involvement, inclusive research, participatory action research, and community-based health research.
We are now inviting submissions for conference abstracts. All abstracts should be in line with the conference guidelines listed below.
Submission opens: 3 March 2025
Submission closes: 6 April 2025
Oral Presentation (12 minutes + 3 min discussion)
In an oral presentation, you can share insights about your research, methodology, project, findings, and applications. An oral presentation lasts 12 min (strictly timed with a Swiss watch!). Max 2 presenters on stage.
Solution Room (30 or 60 minutes)
Due to the novelty of citizen science approaches in the health domain, you might run into challenges. The same ones that are, perhaps, encountered by others. Solution rooms encourage joint exploration of specific topics and challenges, leveraging participants' experiences and expertise to look for concrete solutions.
Solution rooms last 30 or 60 minutes and can have up to two organizers. The sessions can be designed according to the organizers' needs and, if beneficial, you can choose to restrict participation to maximum of 15 people.
Rooms will be equipped with a computer and screen for slides, and the conference organizers can provide basic stationary (i.e. paper, pens, markers, and post-its/sticky notes). Organizers can bring additional tools or materials (e.g., prototypes, technology, art) to support the session.
Poster (plus 1-minute pitch)
With a poster, you can share the results of your projects, present the approach that you took in your work, address an issue, or inform others on your latest insights.
Posters can be either in portrait or landscape format and are supported up to A0 format. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference. Presenters will be asked to deliver a 1-min pitch during a dedicated session and to be available during specific moments.
Other Format (30 or 60 minutes)
We encourage participants to propose an alternative format for their presentation (e.g., debates, case studies, interactive workshops, and “ask an expert”). Only highly engaging and interactive formats will be considered.
Health and well-being include a broad range of categories, such as infectious diseases, chronic health conditions, public health, and prevention. These are all part of the CS4H conference. The sub-themes reflect the conference’s slogan: “From personal to global health: bridging communities through citizen science”. Both theoretical and empirical perspectives on these themes are invited.
1) Global Health
Health and well-being affect all people, and many issues are not specific to a certain country and do not stop at the borders. These are therefore best addressed by bringing communities together on a global scale. We therefore welcome abstracts that address issues such as community health resilience, health advocacy, health inequality, and specific global health issues (e.g. vector monitoring).
2) Trans- and interdisciplinary research approaches
Citizen science for health aims to bridge the interests and expertise of different stakeholders, including researchers, citizens, companies, governments, NGOs, schools, hospitals, libraries, etc. This may require specific approaches to the collaboration and co-creation process. We welcome abstracts highlighting novel co-creation methodologies, participatory frameworks, and cross-cultural/border partnerships that have successfully advanced citizen science in health.
3) Toolkits and data handling
Citizen science for health projects range from personal to global scale. In all cases, it requires data collection and sharing. We therefore welcome abstracts regarding data quality, data types (from molecular to narrative), open science, data infrastructure, and data ownership in citizen science projects. We also welcome abstracts on new tools and technologies to support citizen science projects or on citizen-driven innovation.
4) Ethical, social, and legal issues
Citizen science for health comes with distinct challenges related to diversity, equity, inclusivity, accessibility, and epistemic justice. We welcome abstracts that help to bridge these issues and support fair citizen science for health projects.
5) Impact, monitoring, assessment, and evaluation
The aim of citizen science for health is to make an impact; on health, society, science, policy, and people. We welcome abstracts focusing on the output, outcomes, and impact of citizen science projects in areas such as scientific knowledge production, policy influence, sustainable community engagement, and behavioral health outcomes, as well as abstracts on how to measure these. This also includes abstracts on communication during and beyond research projects.
All conference abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria:
We are evaluating the potential publication of the conference proceedings in PoS - Proceedings of Science. PoS is an Open Access online service provided to the scientific community by the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. PoS conference proceedings are indexed by ADS NASA and INSPIRE, and each published contribution is linked to a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). Proceedings will be in the form of a selection of working papers, not peer-reviewed, which should provide early access to new and interesting research in the field of CS for health.
At the moment of submission, contributors will be asked to express their interest in submitting a working paper to the proceedings. The paper will include a title, abstract, objectives, methods, key findings, conclusion/recommendations, and references (maximum 1500 words following the journal editorial guidelines and templates).
