Health Studies User Conference 2025

Are you interested in research using health related-data? Want to know what the future holds for population health surveys? Or are you curious how large-scale surveys are used in research, policy-making and monitoring?

Join us for the Health Studies User Conference 2025!

The conference will take place online on Monday 23 June. Organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and the National Centre for Social Research, the conference brings data producers and data users together to share updates on the development of key health-related surveys such as the Health Survey for England, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, National Study of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, Scottish Health Survey and national cohort studies. It will also showcase research that is being carried out using the data.

The conference will feature a presentation on the future of population health surveys, including the Health Survey for England, from the Department of Health and Social Care and the Office for National Statistics. More information on the review of the future of the Health Survey for England can be found on the NHS England Digital Health Survey for England - Health, social care and lifestyles web page. Come along and have your say on this important topic.

We are delighted that our keynote on the use of the Health Survey for England in policy-making and monitoring, will be given by Oyinlola Oyebode, Professor of Public Health and Lead of the Centre for Public Health and Policy, Queen Mary University of London.

The afternoon sessions will showcase papers from researchers who have used the datasets for a wide range of topics including mental health, obesity, ethnicity, health in coastal areas, inequalities, synthetic data and more.