Call for Papers: The 8th “Medicine, Humanity and Media”(MHM2025) Health Communication International Conference & PhD Symposium

2025-03-20

The ongoing digital revolution, centered on generative artificial intelligence, is reshaping the health communication practices. Along with it, critical questions are emerging for academic research: How can interdisciplinary collaboration address challenges such as data ethics, algorithmic bias, and health equity? How can intelligent tools empower public health literacy? How to reconstruct adaptive knowledge discourse and research paradigm of health communication?  To explore these issues, the 8th International Conference of "Medicine, Humanity and Media" (MHM2025) and its affiliated PhD Symposium will focus on practical transformation and paradigmatic innovation in health communication research.

 

This conference is designed as a slow conference. Following the one-day international conference, a five-day PhD Symposium will feature morning workshops and afternoon panels(paper presentations and discussions). Optional activities include mentor-mentee office hours, company visits, AED training, and etc. Submissions are welcome in two formats: individual papers and panel proposals. See submission guidelines for details.

 

Theme: Reconstructing Health Communication in the Digital-Intelligent Era

Sub-Themes:

-Health intervention and behavior change in the digital-intelligent era

-Digital-intelligent technologies and multimodal health message design/dissemination

-Public health emergence and digital-intelligent communication  

-Case studies on digital divides and health inequalities

-Strategic health advocacy and communication promotion in the digital-intelligent era (e.g., tobacco control, cerebral stroke, weight management, etc. )

-Theoretical/methodological development and paradigmatic shifts in health communication research driven by digital-intelligent technologies

-Other related topics

 

Dates: July 6–11, 2025

Venue: Peking University (Yanyuan Campus), with partial online sessions.

Organizer: School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University

 

Key Dates

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025, 23:59 (GMT+8)

Notification of Results: By June 5, 2025

Registration Confirmation: June 15, 2025

International Conference: July 6, 2025

PhD Symposium: July 7–11, 2025

 

Special Arrangements

This conference integrates with Peking University’s summer course Health Communication Research: Theories and Methods, featuring lectures by leading scholars to foster academic exchange. Accepted authors may attend the course tuition-free; others must register via Peking University’s summer school program.

 

Publication Opportunities

Selected papers will be published in CNKI’s conference proceedings and considered for Journal of Medicine, Humanity and Media (ISSN 2917-5166). High-quality submissions may also be recommended to other top-tier journals.

 

No registration fees. Participants are responsible for travel and accommodation.

Contact mhm_office@163.com, 010-62753570 (Ms. Zeng), or 13683359899 (Mr. Wang) for more information.

 

Submission guidelines

  1. Panel Submission
  • Panel chair must submit a proposal via email to mhm_office@163.com with the title "Panel Proposal – Name – Institution – Panel Title" (e.g., "Panel Proposal – Zhang San – Peking University – AI and Health Misinformation").
  • Attachments:

Panel overview (300–500 words) with participant details (name, institution, title, paper title).

Compressed file containing all full papers (4–6 papers) formatted according to individual submission requirements.

  1. Individual Submission

1) This conference accepts submissions in Chinese or English only;

2) Word count: Ideally, Chinese full texts should be between 5,000-8,000 words, and English full texts between 3,000-5,000 words；

3) Content requirements: The paper should include a title, abstract, keywords, main text, and notes. For projects funded by provincial-level departments and significant funding programs, the project name and ID must be specified. If the paper is authored by a research group, the names and affiliations of the main group members should be indicated；

4)  Formatting requirements: Please refer to the formatting guidelines of the Journal of Medicine, Humanity and Media；

Chinese：http://mhmjournal.net/index.php/mhm/template_zh

English：http://mhmjournal.net/index.php/mhm/template_en

5) Title of Email: Name-Institution-Topic Number-Paper Title (for example: Zhang San-Peking University-1-Influence of Media on Health Behavior Formation)；

6) The first page of the paper should include the following information in the footer: Name, Date of Birth, Gender, Learning/Working Institution, Educational Background, Academic Title (not required for students), and Research Direction.