EBMLive 2026 welcomes all the players in the evidence based medicine ecosystem.
This means: clinicians, medics, nurses, physios, OTs; researchers; journal editors, other journal staff and medical writers; patients, and carers; the public, as payers, and as civil society; policymakers, politicians and civil servants; professional bodies, medical and academic; the pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and device industries; health services, payers, the NHS, and insurance companies; healthcare administrators, and managers; cost-effectiveness agencies, IQWiG, NICE, and more; regulators; students; registry owners; and more.
2026 Conference Themes include but are not exclusive to:
Enhancing evidence for public health emergencies
Supporting the generation of high-quality evidence for public health emergencies.
Fostering effective and efficient knowledge exchange for global public health emergencies.
Inspiring policymakers and health system leaders to incorporate high-quality evidence into decision-making.
Increasing public understanding of the benefits and harms of the use of NPIs during global health care emergencies in different environments.
Wiser evidence-based healthcare
Addressing the issue of overdiagnosis and the effective use of diagnostic tests.
Promoting value-based healthcare through identifying tests, procedures, and interventions that provide little or no net benefit or cause more harm than good.
Production and translation of high-quality research evidence to support effective healthcare.
Promoting sustainable, affordable healthcare that incudes
Clinical sustainability — care that improves outcomes and avoids harm or waste.
Economic sustainability — care that is cost-effective and financially viable for patients and systems.
Environmental sustainability — reducing the carbon footprint, waste, and resource use of healthcare itself
Transforming the communication of health evidence and risk
Effective communications through the media and social media for better understanding and use of evidence.
How can patients, clinicians and policy-makers better understand and use evidence.
Educating professionals, policy makers and the public to make better informed choices.
Increasing healthcare practitioners’ awareness of evidence-based medicine and its role in effective healthcare.
Improving the quality and dissemination of research evidence
Ensuring evidence is relevant, accessible and transparent – tackling issues such as publication bias, selective reporting and limited external validity trials
Reducing questionable research practices and conflicts of interest.
Assessing the role of artificial intelligence in developing high-quality research evidence.
Reducing waste in research that incudes
Improving Study Design and Methods
Addressing bias and confounding in research
Transparency and reporting
Industry and commercial influence
Early Bird Rate £445 – Rising to £495 after 30 March 2026
Early Bird with Conference Dinner £495 – Rising to £545 after 30 March 2026
Medical and Health Science Students £295 (includes PhD, MSc, Cert & Dip students)
Medical and Health Science Students with Conference Dinner £345
