The Digital Twins for Health Society (DT4HS) warmly invites submissions from academia, industry, government, and non-profit sectors for its inaugural annual meeting, to be held in Houston, Texas, on January 19-20, 2026. This premier event serves as the leading platform to present, discuss, and shape state-of-the-art advances in digital twin (DT) technologies for health. We seek high-quality, original contributions across all relevant areas, including DT technical foundations, clinical applications, system deployment, ethics, policy, and beyond. Submissions for both oral and poster presentations are encouraged.
Selected high-quality submissions will be invited to submit manuscripts for publication in a research topic (AI-enabled Digital Twins in Healthcare) of the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence) in 2026.
Important Dates ( Anywhere on Earth (AoE))
● Abstract/Paper/Poster submissions: November 10, 2025
● Decision notification: December 1, 2025
● Conference date: January 19 and 20, 2026
● Journal submission: January 31, 2026
Topics
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
DT Foundations and Methodologies
- DT conceptual frameworks, architectures, taxonomy, and standards
- Multi-scale modeling: from molecular to organ to individual to population
- Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification of DT models
- Safety, security, ethics, and social acceptance
AI and Computational Methods for DT
- AI/ML approaches for creating and updating DTs
- Real-time and multimodal data processing and fusion for DTs
- Computational algorithms for DTs and high-performance computing
- Natural language processing of electronic health records and clinical notes
- Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics modeling of drug dynamics and toxicity assessment
- Privacy-preserving computation, synthetic data generation, data simulation and federated learning
DT for Population and Public Health
- DT for public health monitoring and epidemiology
- DT for emergency preparedness, outbreak response, and global health
- DT for wellness, prevention and healthy aging
Responsible DT: Ethics, Governance, Policy and Trust
- Privacy, data protection and confidentiality
- Regulation, safety, compliance (e.g., FDA, EMA, and GDPR)
- Explainability, transparency, and accountability frameworks
- Bias, fairness and risk management
- Data governance and standards
DT Infrastructure and Ecosystem
- High-performance computing, cloud, and edge solutions for DTs
- Interoperability across platforms and health systems
- Scaling DTs to real-world use: reliability, maintainability, resilience
Submissions
We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper must register with a full (non-student) registration fee, plan to attend the event in person, and present their work (oral or poster presentations) during the meeting.
Please prepare your submission in PDF for review in a single column format, using the
latest Word Submission Template by Frontiers.
The length for each type of submission is specified below (including references)
- Abstract/posters: 1-2 page
- Short paper: 4-5 pages
- Regular paper: 7-8 pages
- All materials must be submitted electronically to the Open Review Portal by the submission deadlines. (https://openreview.net/group?id=DT4HS.org/2026/Inaugural_Annual_Meeting)