16th International Congress of Behavioural Medicine

16th International Congress of Behavioural Medicine

The International Society of Behaviour Medicine (ISBM) International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Interdisciplinary Behavioural Medicine: Systems, Networks and Interventions will take place 19th-22nd August 2020, in the city of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.

The Congress will include internationally known keynote speakers and master lecturers who will deliver talks on topics of critical importance to behavioural medicine.

Programme tracks include:

  • Ageing, health and age-related diseases
  • Behaviour change and interventions
  • Biological mechanisms
  • Cancer prevention and control
  • Cardiovascular and pulmonary health and disorders, and critical care medicine
  • Child, adolescent and family health
  • Diabetes
  • Digital health
  • Education and training in behavioural medicine
  • Health education, communication, and decision-making
  • Health inequalities (among sexual/racial, socio-economic, and/or ethnic minorities)
  • Health systems, policy, promotion, advocacy, dissemination and implementation
  • Lifestyle behaviours
  • Pain and musculoskeletal disorders
  • Persistent physical symptoms (PPS)
  • Placebo and nocebo
  • Prevention
  • Occupational health
  • Systems and network approaches to improve health
  • Tropical medicine, HIV/ AIDS, and other infectious diseases