📁 Save the date: ASPHER Deans' & Directors' Retreat - July 15-18, Milan (Italy)

Calling all ASPHER members to Save the date! 1st announcement for the European Congress on Public Health Education & Training! Including the ASPHER Deans' & Directors' Retreat. 15-18 July 2026 Milan, Italy As part of ASPHER's 60th Anniversary year celebrations, we are launching the first European Congress on Public Health Education & Training. The Congress is proudly hosted in the dynamic, international city of Milan by four ASPHER member institutions: Postgraduate School of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine - University of Milan WHO Collaborating Centre for Design & Helath - Polytechnic of Milan Postgraduate School of Hygien and Preventive Medicine - University of Pavia Postgraduate School of Hygien and Preventive Medicine - Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Organising Committee Lead: Prof Carlo Signorelli Scientific Committee Lead: Prof. Henrique Barros Members who would like to learn more about getting involved can contact us at community@aspher.org. We'll be happy to meet over zoom or in Helsinki at the EPH Conference. If your institution is not yet an ASPHER member, contact us to learn how to join so you don't miss out! Please share this announcement with your networks and keep an eye out for the 2nd announcement coming in November with registration information and call for abstracts!

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The ongoing ASPHER website update serves two purposes:

Rebranding

The first is part of the corporate rebranding of ASPHER to bring a fresh look to the face of the Association. This includes the new modernised ASPHER logo, adopted at the ASPHER General Assembly in June of 2024. It echoes the past logo, keeping the graphical element of public health academics working with hearts and minds to improve the population’s health.

Online community

The second is to create a member driven ASPHER online community where individual users affiliated with ASPHER member schools (heads of schools, faculty, students and alumni) will be able to interact with each other, network and share their work, join and participate in ASPHER groups, and so much more – expanding together to unlock the ASPHER Community’s full potential!

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We want the new ASPHER website to work for you. What do you think about it so far? What functionalities and resources would you like us to add / prioritize? Send us your ideas for how you think the website could better serve the public health schools community.