Health is complex. However, such complexity is not a problem to be solved but the very thing we must learn to see. Multimorbidity, mental health, chronic disease, inequality, the resilience of entire health systems: none of these can be understood through linear models alone. They emerge from the interplay of biological, behavioural, social, and environmental processes that unfold across scales and feed back on one another in ways no single discipline can capture on its own.

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The inaugural Health Complexity Conference invites researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and data scientists to engage with this complexity rather than to reduce it away. Across public health, epidemiology, clinical practice, mental health, the health professions, and the social sciences, a shared language is taking shape — one drawn from complexity science with its attention to emergence, non-linearity, feedback, and the dynamics of interconnected systems. These communities rarely meet but this conference aims to bring them into the same room.

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The day is built for exchange. Two keynote lectures will set the intellectual agenda; four parallel workshop streams will move from the concepts and methods of complexity to its lived realities. The aim throughout is not to simplify but to think together about complexity.

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Hosted by the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center at the University of Copenhagen, the  ultimate goal of this conference is to foster a lively, collaborative community and international network in health complexity science. We invite you to join us to help shape the emergence of this field.

We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen – registration will open soon