Tunis 11-14 June 2026: start preparing your abstracts!
Last month, we announced the key abstract dates for the 13th IPCRG World Conference & 1st North African Interdisciplinary Respiratory Forum:
Call for abstracts opens: 1 October 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 22 February 2026 (19 April for late-breaking abstracts)
Now is the time to begin thinking about your abstracts (see our guide to abstracts) and planning your trip. Tunisia is an accessible country with lower requirements for visas than many other countries, with an easy e-visa application system for those who need one. The Scientific Programme Committee is working hard to make this our most interactive conference ever. This conference marks the 25th anniversary of IPCRG’s founding, so we hope you will join us for this memorable event.
IPCRG colleagues on new WHO COPD and asthma Guideline Development Groups
In February, we advertised that the World Health Organization (WHO) was recruiting for positions on new groups developing guidelines for the diagnosis and management of COPD and asthma in primary care. We would like to congratulate a number of IPCRG colleagues who have been given positions on Guideline Development Groups: congratulations to Ioanna Tsiligianni, Anders Østrem, Liliana Silva, Thomas Meoño, Habib Ghedira, Sergio Zunino and Boudewijn Dierick. We are delighted that IPCRG colleagues’ experience and knowledge has been recognised.
The annual scientific meeting for the RESPIRE research collaboration for 2025 was hosted by our Malaysian group in Sabah, bringing together IPCRG and other colleagues from Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia and Bhutan.
Site visits to primary care centres highlighted some really excellent family medicine-led community based services for lung health. These included smoking cessation, asthma, COPD and TB health promotion, treatment and rehabilitation services demonstrating how the Lung Health Resolution can be integrated into the community.
IPCRG has co-led stakeholder engagement in research since 2017 and we are delighted with this summary from the funder NIHR in July this year: "RESPIRE's core strength lies in its proactive stakeholder engagement”. To learn more, see our paper on the Champions model and the accompanying guide.
There are many research projects with the potential to be spread and scaled up, some of which you know about through abstracts to IPCRG meetings or papers in our journal and new ones that we hope will be submitted to Tunis 2026.
Join the Global Primary Care Respiratory Collaborative
We invite members of our network to get involved in the Global Primary Care Respiratory Collaborative, a new community of practice launched in close dialogue with the WHO and NIHR-RESPIRE. The Collaborative brings together researchers, funders, and implementers to identify gaps and opportunities in implementation research on chronic respiratory disease interventions in primary care settings in LMICs. Whether you’re a practitioner, policymaker, researcher, or funder, there are many ways to participate - IPCRG members can join the global or regional evidence translation groups, share relevant implementation research papers on CRD interventions in primary care, or contribute to the open-access knowledge hub. Contact us to find out more about how we can work together to bridge the evidence–policy–practice gap for improving respiratory health care.
