• Welcome address from IPCRG President and our Romanian hosts

• Dermot Ryan (Ireland): Key research questions on rhinitis
• Stefan Busnatu (Romania): Key research questions on COPD and heart disease

Oral Presentations Session 1: 
Respiratory health in young people

Chairs: Rachel Jordan (United Kingdom), Purva Abhyankar (United Kingdom)

OP1.1 | Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan (Malaysia): Adapting a School-Based Asthma Programme for LMICs: Insights from Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan

OP1.2 | Jayakayatri Jeevajothi Nathan (Malaysia): Enhancing Stakeholder and Community Engagement in the Development of a School-Based Asthma Programme in Malaysia

OP1.3 | Erol Gaillard (United Kingdom): Digital Smart Inhaler monitoring in children and young people with high-risk asthma in UK primary care

OP1.4 | Anna Margaryan (Armenia): Morpho-functional state of the respiratory system among students based on physical fitness levels

Oral Presentations Session 2:
Right care: medicines and vaccines

Chairs: Miguel Román Rodríguez (Spain), Dermot Ryan (Ireland)

OP2.1 | Alison Moore (United Kingdom): Is Asthma Clinical Remission Achievable by Inhaled Therapy? A Post-Hoc Analysis of Single Inhaler Triple Therapy with FF/UMEC/VI in the CAPTAIN Trial

OP2.2 | Juliana Franceschini (Brazil): The prevalence and impact of over-the-counter (OTC) systemic corticosteroid availability: Global insights from primary care

OP2.3 | Mónica Rodrigues Reis (Portugal): Optimization of Vaccination Coverage of COPD Patients in a Family Health Unit in Portugal - Continuous Quality Improvement

OP2.4 | Dasha Shamarina (Belgium): Prior and concomitant medication use in patients with refractory chronic cough: Post-hoc analysis of SOOTHE

OP2.5 | Alan Kaplan (Canada): A new portable spacer for use on the go can provide benefits for patients, health care systems and the environment

Conversation Café 1:
Engaging stakeholders in innovation

Chairs: Amanda Barnard (Australia), Hani Salim (Malaysia)

CC1.1 | Esther Metting (The Netherlands): Designing a Decision Support System for Tailored eHealth Solutions in Patient Care

CC1.2 | Monsur Habib (Bangladesh): Empowering primary care to influence health research, policy, and practice in low-resource settings: The PuRe Trial as an example

CC1.3 | Atena Mahboubian (The Netherlands): Patients and Healthcare Providers' Needs and Values in Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation Management: Continuing Co-creation

CC1.4 | Esther Metting (The Netherlands): Understanding eHealth Acceptance Among COPD Patients: An Innovative Machine Learning Approach to Identify Interaction Patterns and Prototypes

CC1.5 | Luis Carvalho (Portugal): Empowering researchers and healthcare professionals to design social media campaigns for health promotion through online learning

Oral Presentations Session 3:
COPD

Chairs: Alan Kaplan (Canada), Pedro Fonte (Portugal)

OP3.1 | Atena Mahboubian (The Netherlands): Initiating co-creation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation Management: Patients’ and Providers’ perspectives on Remote Patient Monitoring

OP3.2 | Ioanna Tsiligianni (Greece): Clinical Audit on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Management in Primary Care: The Greek COPD COCARE Cohort

OP3.3 | Farzana Khan (Bangladesh): Feasibility of using Spirometry for COPD Diagnosis in Humanitarian Settings (Zoom Presentation)

OP3.4 | Navidad Sánchez Marcos (Spain): Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Community Pharmacies: Respirafarma Project

OP3.5 | Evelien Harms (The Netherlands): Assessing current COPD management and opportunities for optimisation in Dutch primary care using the COPDOptimiser website, a class IIa medical device: Preliminary results

Oral Presentations Session 4:
Air pollution

Chairs: Rianne van der Kleij (The Netherlands), Esther Metting (The Netherlands)

OP4.1 | Jayakayatri Jeevajothi Nathan (Malaysia): Enhance the Implementation of Air Quality Policies in Malaysia: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach

OP4.2 | Wei Leik Ng (Malaysia): A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Air Quality Mobile Application Alert System to Improve Asthma Control in Malaysia

OP4.3 | Azat Bolotbek Uulu (Kyrgyzstan): Fresh Air For Life (FA4LIFE): An observational study of activity-based personal PM2.5 exposure in Bishkek city and in rural Sokuluk region in Kyrgyzstan

OP4.4 | Norita Hussein (Malaysia): Navigating the challenges of Air Quality and Health Research in Malaysia: Lessons Learned

Conversation Café 2:
Primary care development

Chairs: Ee Ming Khoo (Malaysia), Andrea Neculau (Romania)

CC2.1 | Dermot Ryan (Ireland): What are the teaching and learning needs for the diagnosis and management of rhinitis in primary and community care globally?

CC2.2 | Rebekah Lamb (New Zealand): Understanding SABA reliever use in those prescribed an anti-inflammatory reliever (AIR)

CC2.3 | Mónica Rodrigues Reis (Portugal): Users’ perception about the management of their respiratory disease in consultation with their family health team

CC2.4 | Amanda Barnard (Australia): How does the FRESHAIR4Life Teach the Teacher programme impact the competence, confidence, and intervention fidelity of master trainers in five low- and middle-income contexts?

Oral Presentations Session 5:
Enhancing skills and knowledge

Chairs: María Mar Martínez Vázquez (Spain), Ee Ming Khoo (Malaysia)

OP5.1 | Francisco Javier Plaza Zamora (Spain): Enhancing Pharmacists' Skills in Inhaler Management: Outcomes from a Nationwide Workshop Series in Spain

OP5.2 | Shariff Ghazali Sazlina (Malaysia): Implementing patient counselling using Pictorial Personalised Asthma Action Plan in Government Primary Care Clinics in Malaysia: Challenges and potential solutions

OP5.3 | Vandana Das (India): What is the effect of a training program on Obstructive Airways Diseases (OAD) on the knowledge levels of 527 allied health professionals in India?

OP5.4 | Juliana Franceschini (Brazil): Global perceptions and practices of systemic corticosteroid use in asthma and COPD management

OP5.5 | Nazir Hussain (United Kingdom): How to keep people out of hospital (The impact of a pharmacist-led one stop respiratory clinic)

Oral Presentations Session 6:
Supporting patient self-management

Chairs: Amanda Barnard (Australia), Alan Kaplan (Canada)

OP6.1 | Momoko Zamami (United Kingdom): IMP2ART Education Modules to Engage Healthcare Professionals to Improve Implementation of Supported Self-Management of Asthma - In Practice

OP6.2 | Hani Salim (Malaysia): Reflections on the use of the Photovoice method: Empowering voices of people living with chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in Malaysia

OP6.3 | Ai Theng Cheong (Malaysia): Healthcare providers’ experiences in delivering the pictorial and text-based personalised asthma action plan

OP6.4 | Ngamjit Kongsupon (United Kingdom): HANDS-ON ASTHMA (Health and Social Factors and their influence on asthma symptoms at work): Α cross-sectional study

OP6.5 | Soo Chin Chan (Malaysia): Development of a Standardised Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PuRe) Pack Across Multiple Centres in Asia: A Collaborative Approach to Enhance Respiratory Care

Conversation Café 3:
Reducing exposure to tobacco 

Chairs: Amanda Farley (United Kingdom), Cristina Isar (Romania)

CC3.1 | Antonios Christodoulakis (Greece): Factors influencing adolescent smoking behaviors in Crete: The cross-sectional Greek FRESHAIR4Life study

CC3.2 | Saima Saeed (Pakistan): From Schools to Sports: Adapting Implementation Intentions in FreshAir4Life to Prevent Tobacco Use in Pakistani Youth

CC3.3 | Andrea Neculau (Romania): Stakeholders’ perspectives on implementing a prevention intervention to reduce tobacco use among Romanian adolescents – Insights from FRESHAIR4Life project

CC3.4 | Mónica Rodrigues Reis (Portugal): Smoking Cessation Motivation Strategy - Creating a Brochure

CC3.5 | Purva Abhyankar (United Kingdom): FRESHAIR4Life: Selecting and adapting interventions and implementation strategies to reduce exposure to tobacco and air pollution among adolescents in five diverse countries

Oral Presentations Session 7:
Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Chairs: Hilary Pinnock (United Kingdom), Lindsay Zurba (South Africa)

OP7.1 | Siân Williams (United Kingdom): How can we best design and deliver pulmonary rehabilitation education: Findings from preliminary Public and Patient Involved and Engagement workshop “Working together to improve PR education” facilitated by Pulmonary Rehabilitation Education Consortium (PREC)

OP7.2 | Liliana Silva (Portugal): The Impact of Home-Based vs Centre-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Physical Activity in Patients with COPD: A Comparison of Portuguese and UK Programmes

OP7.3 | Monsur Habib (Bangladesh): Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Views of Healthcare Professionals and Policymakers in Bangladesh

OP7.4 | Biswajit Paul (India): Fidelity and rigour in a global trial: Pulmonary Rehabilitation workshop for PuRe Implementation trial in primary care in LMIC settings

16:30 – 18:00
(Will be held in the Exhibition Area and UI2 room)
Creative Enquiry Presentations

Chairs: Amanda Barnard (Australia), Amanda Farley (United Kingdom)

CE1 | Saima Saeed (Pakistan): Visual Narratives by FreshAir4Life: Exploring Youth Perspectives on Tobacco Use and Air Pollution in Pakistan

CE2 | Jenny Alexanders (United Kingdom): Video diaries by people living with COPD: A novel method to explore lived experience and create representative educational content

CE3 | Esther Metting (The Netherlands): Culture matters: A cross-country comparison of technology acceptance

CE4 | Hani Salim (Malaysia): Exploring experiences of people living with chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in Malaysia: an adapted Photovoice study

CE5 | Charlotte Hoffman (The Netherlands): “The youth can be ruined” – Unheard Adolescent Voices in the Global Tobacco Debate: Findings from the FRESHAIR4Life Study

CE6 | Vlatka Matkovic (Belgium): Lung Health for Life: enhancing lung health from an early age through lung function testing and educational programmes

Oral Presentations Session 8:
Asthma care

Chairs: Catalina Panaitescu (Romania), Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan (Malaysia)

OP8.1 | Juliana Franceschini (Brazil): Asthma Friendly City Strategy: Intersectoral Action to Promote the Right Care

OP8.2 | María Mar Martínez Vázquez (Spain): Leveraging game-based learning to enhance Primary Care healthcare professionals education in Asthma Right Care in Spain

OP8.3 | Grace Lewis (United Kingdom): Stakeholder perceptions of an intervention to introduce FeNO-guided asthma management into routine primary care reviews

OP8.4 | Erol Gaillard (United Kingdom): A Patient-centred approach to understanding the barriers to Accessing and Engaging with asthma care (PACE)

OP8.5 | Ioanna Tsiligianni (Greece): Implementation and impact of Reliever Reliance Test questionnaire for asthma in primary care patients and healthcare professional perceptions in Greece

Conversation Café 4:
Registries, risk factors and scoring systems

Chairs: Ee Ming Khoo (Malaysia), Miguel Román Rodríguez (Spain)

CC4.1 | Rizawati Ramli (Malaysia): Feasibility of Asthma Registry Implementation in Primary Care Among Doctors in Klang District, Malaysia

CC4.2 | Ibrahim Saleem (United Kingdom): The proportion and risk factors of fatal outcomes among severely and critically ill COVID-19 patients: A hospital experience, Baghdad, Iraq

CC4.3 | Jaskirat Singh (India): Demographic Patterns of Multi drug resistant-Tuberculosis Patients in a Tertiary Care Centre in India

CC4.4 | Dasha Shamarina (Belgium): Development of claims and EHR-based algorithm for refractory chronic cough: CLeaR-CC

Conversation Café 5:
Diagnosis

Chairs: Sundeep Salvi (India), Hilary Pinnock (United Kingdom)

CC5.1 | Lucía Gorreto Lopez (Spain): The PRISMA Project: Implementation screening and diagnosis Obstructive Sleep Apnea in primary care

CC5.2 | Vlatka Matkovic (Belgium): Optimizing Lung Cancer Screening through GP Involvement: The EU-funded SOLACE Project

CC5.3 | Wai Khew Lee (Malaysia): Development of a clinical algorithm scoring system to diagnose smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis in resource- constraint settings: modified Delphi method

Oral Presentations Session 9:
Multi-morbidity

Chairs: Dermot Ryan (Ireland), María Mar Martínez Vázquez (Spain)

OP9.1 | Ruth Tal-singer (Austria): Type 2 inflammation respiratory conditions have significant impact on anxiety and overall wellbeing in adults: an international survey

OP9.2 | Monika Haaksma-Herczegh (The Netherlands) & Mari Pesonen (The Netherlands): Challenges and Opportunities in Referral to Specialized Care for Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD): Insights from a Survey of General Practitioners

OP9.3 | Sundeep Salvi (India): Prevalence of Lung Conditions and Multimorbidity - Insights from a Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study from India

OP9.4 | Sundeep Salvi (India): Small Airways Dysfunction in Asthmatics: Insights into Lung Oscillometry, Spirometry Indices, Phenotypes, and Comorbidities from a Multicentric Study in India

Conversation Café 6:
Tobacco use in adolescents and children

Chairs: Claudia Vicente (Portugal),  Amanda Farley (United Kingdom)

CC6.1 | Rianne van der Kleij (The Netherlands): Preventing tobacco use among adolescents in FreshAir4Life countries: A mixed method, RE-AIM evaluation of implementation intentions delivered in youth clubs in Karachi, Pakistan

CC6.2 | Adriana-Sorina Antohe (Romania): Do perceived Social Emotional Learning competences influence tobacco use among adolescents in Brasov? – A FRESHAIR4Life project

CC6.3 | Anca Gabriela Dumitrescu (Romania): Stakeholders’ views about implementing Very Brief Advice to address tobacco use among Romanian adolescents: Insights from the stakeholder workshops within FRESHAIR4Life

CC6.4 | Cristina Isar (Romania): To dare or not to dare. Is Smoke Free School an acceptable intervention in the eyes of Romanian stakeholders? – A FRESHAIR4Life Project

CC6.5 | Amanda Barnard (for Smita Shah) (Australia): Empowering students to create a smoke free culture in schools

Conversation Café 7:
Air pollution

Chairs: Esther Metting (The Netherlands), Andrea Neculau (Romania)

CC7.1 |Antonios Christodoulakis (Greece): Assessing exposure to scented products in indoor environments and respiratory symptoms: A University Staff Survey

CC7.2 | Wei Leik Ng (Malaysia): Engaging Stakeholders in the Iterative Development of an Air Quality App to Improve Asthma Control

CC7.3 | Nurdin Shakiev (Kyrgyzstan): FRESHAIR4Life: The efficacy of interventions to reduce personal exposure to indoor and outdoor airborne particulates in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

CC7.4 | Vandana Das (India): Indoor Air Pollution and Its Impact on Health Conditions in Urban Slums in Western India

CC7.5 | DK Arvind (United Kingdom): Measurement of personal exposure to Second Hand Smoking (SHS) using particle size distribution for public health studies

Closing Plenary & Awards

Neil Fitch (Belgium) & Siân Williams (United Kingdom): IPCRG Research prioritization: where are we now?

Amanda Barnard (Australia) to introduce Best Abstract Award

Siân Williams, IPCRG CEO & Co-Chair Tunisia SPC (United Kingdom): Launch of 13th IPCRG World Conference, 2026

Amanda Barnard (Australia): Closing Address