Programme

Club Health Ghent 2025 aims to build capacity and capability among all groups with a stake in healthy and safe nightlife. These groups include government agencies and local authorities that regulate it; law enforcement, councils and public health professionals that manage it; the club owners, festival organisers and promoters that make it happen and the participants without whom it would not exist.

Timetable

Conference starts on Wednesday 14 May, 10.00 am. Registration starts at 8.30 am.

Conference ends on Friday 16 May, 1.00 pm.

Objectives

The objectives of Club Health Ghent 2025 include:

To develop understanding of the impacts of nightlife activity and the necessity for creating and maintaining safe and healthy nightlife environments
To facilitate the implementation of effective, evidence-based policies, interventions and approaches in nightlife environments that can reduce potential harms
To improve knowledge and expertise about how nightlife environments and settings can be developed, managed and sustained effectively
To promote multi-agency partnerships and networks at local, national and international levels

Topics

The key topics for Club Health Ghent 2025 include:

Advocacy
Artificial intelligence
Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
Design and management of nightlife environments
Drug legislation and drug law reform
Digital technology
Diversity and inclusion
Emerging trends in club culture
Emergency medicine
Festivals
Forensic testing of substances, ‘pill testing’ and ‘early warning systems’
Gambling
Gender
Gentrification
Health and safety standards for nighttime environments
Health interventions in nightlife settings
International nightlife tourism
LGBTQ+
Nightlife legislation, policy and economic impact
Policing
Sexual health and risk-taking sexual behaviours
Sexual harassment and violence
Social exclusion
Terrorism
Violence
Workforce, nightlife health and wellbeing

Conference format

Club Health Ghent 2025 consists of plenary sessions featuring invited speakers, round table discussions, parallel sessions comprising submitted abstracts and poster presentations.

The official conference language is English. There will be no translation services available.

Abstract submission