Public Health, Digital Legacy
This year’s Digital Legacy Conference will focus on Digital Legacy and its importance within public health campaigning and policy.
This year’s conference will be part conference and part workshop. The objective is for each attendee to leave and setup their own public health, digital legacy campaigns. The Digital Legacy Association will support the development of attednee’s policy and practice for the following six months.
Programme overview
We will introduce the feild of digital assets and digital legacy from the lens of the geneal public and public health, palliative care professionals. Examples of professional and public health interventions will be explored, analysed and celebrated, Those attending will reflect and document their own digital lives using a ‘Digital & Social Media Will booklet (provided to all for free). This exercise will act as a springboard and provide a basic level of ‘lived experience’ in the context of planning for one’s digital life. Roleplay will take place using the (open access) Digital & Social Media Will Booklet. This will help attendees embed digital legacy conversations into their own practice, advance care planning conversations, bereavement support etc.
Public health professionals and policy makers who are not patient-facing will be able to utilise this exercise when developing campaigns and policies suitable for the patients and communities they serve.
Outcomes
‘Public Health, Digital Legacy’ will conclude with attendees mapping out ideas for their own, future digital legacy, public health campaigns. These will be tailored to the needs of their local health ecosystems and relevant for the cultures and communities they serve.
Collectively we will discuss the feasibility of campaigns and discuss overcoming barriers (work placed, mental barriers, financial etc). Through discussion and collaboration barriers will be lowered with the intention of them being acted upon.
Those who attend the ‘Public Health, Digital Legacy workshop will be provided with virtual support over the course of six months from the Digital Legacy Association whilst developing their public health, digital legacy interventions.
Part of Public Health Palliative Care Conference 2026
The Digital Legacy Conference 2026 will be delivered as a Digital Legacy Academy and form part of the Public Health Palliative Care International Conference in Taiwan. All those who attend will graduate and be awarded with a Digital Legacy Academy Certificate from the Digital Legacy Association. We look forward to seeing you there.
Public Health Campaigning and The Digital Legacy Association
Much of our work is public health related. We support care professionals, the general public, social networks, governments, charities and many other organisations with their own public health interventions.
We look forward to delivering the Digital Legacy Academy at PHPCI 2026 and supporting those attending in the weeks and months that follow.
The Digital Legacy Conference 2027
The Digital Legacy Conference will return back to the UK at the University of Birmingham in 2027. Further details will be released after this year’s Conference. The Digital Legacy Conference 2027 will be a traditional, theatre based conference with a diverse range of technologists, academics, care and legal professionals working within the field of digital assets, digital legacy and digital death.
