“This conference brings together people from around the world, all working on some aspect of data linkage. Insights shared can spark ideas to ultimately improve health and health policy.”
Dennis Culhane, PhD, Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania
The 2026 IPDLN Conference will place particular emphasis on empirical studies using population and administrative datasets, the transformative potential of administrative data linkage, methodological innovations that advance the field of population data science, and ethical and legal implications.
The Call for Abstracts is now open for oral, poster, and rapid-fire presentations. The call for workshops is now closed. Submissions for both were invited until December 14, 2025.
2026 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, University of Oslo (Norway)
Tom Emery, IPDLN Co-Chair; Executive Director at ODISSEI; Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Sociology of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Kasia Karpinska, IPDLN Co-Chair; Scientific manager at ODISSEI
Angelica Maineri, Data manager at ODISSEI
Emma Gordon, Director, Economic and Social Research Council; Director, Administrative Data Research UK, UK
Maria Brandén, Linköping University (Sweden)
Jani Erola, University of Turku (Finland)