We are pleased to announce that the 11th Annual LifeCourse Prevention Summit (LIFE2026) will be held in parallel with the 18th Excellence in Pediatrics Conference (EIP2026) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 3–5 December 2026, at the Tivoli Hotel and Conference Center.
This milestone edition of the Summit takes on one of the defining policy challenges of our time, framed in deliberately direct terms: aging as a systems design problem. Populations across Europe and globally are living significantly longer — but the health systems, cities, housing frameworks, labour markets, and care structures on which those lives depend were built for a different era. The result is a failure that is not accidental. It is predictable, cumulative, and in large part preventable.
The Summit's central theme: Aging as a Design Problem: Building Systems That Deliver Across the LifeCourse
The program spans two full days of structured policy meetings, each preceded by expert scientific briefings and followed by facilitated action-plan discussion, but to produce concrete, implementable recommendations.
Day 1 — Why Systems Fail opens with two keynote lectures setting the intellectual frame: why longevity demands a new systems logic, and why prevention must start early or it will not work at all. Three policy meetings will then examine the architecture of well-being across the life course, identify the principal drivers of health system failure, and use demographic projections and fiscal modelling to map what inaction will cost by 2040 and 2050.
Day 2 — Where System Failure Becomes Visible focuses on the two most measurable and most actionable expressions of that failure. The first is equity: how cumulative disadvantage across the life course produces inequitable health outcomes in later life, and what institutional reforms are needed to make equitable access a real and accountable objective. The second is lifecourse immunisation: why vaccination programmes remain fragmented across age groups, and how to move toward an integrated strategy that spans maternal, infant, adult, and older adult immunisation.
Together, the five policy meetings address systems spanning health and care, housing, urban environments, transport, work and retirement, and consumer technology — positioning prevention not as a health expenditure to be justified, but as system infrastructure with long-term, cross-sectoral, and measurable returns.
Who is LIFE2026 for? The Summit is designed for professionals working in health prevention, policy, research, and systems design — particularly those operating at the intersection of ageing, equity, and immunisation.
To attend LIFE2026, register through the EIP2026 system. A single registration grants full access to all EIP2026 and LIFE2026 sessions and parallel meetings.
