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Monday, October 13, 2025


Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Track 1
Track 2
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM INHSU 2025 Community Day
11:00 AM - 3:45 PM EMCR Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) & Community Networking Event
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Prisons Networking and Panel
Track 1
Track 2
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM INHSU 2025 Community Day
11:00 AM - 3:45 PM EMCR Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) & Community Networking Event
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Prisons Networking and Panel

Track 1
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM INHSU 2025 Community Day
11:00 AM - 3:45 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) & Community Networking Event
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Prisons Networking and Panel

Track 2
10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
11:00 AM - 3:45 PM EMCR Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Early-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) & Community Networking Event
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Prisons Networking and Panel


Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break
Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
First Timers & New Members Meet Up
Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1A: Abstract Session - Hepatitis C Elimination and Harm Reduction in Prisons Concurrent 1B: Abstract Session - Peer-Led Models of Care and Community Engagement Concurrent 1C: Abstract Session - Trends and Prevention of Drug Related Deaths Concurrent 1D: Advancing Policy Reform for People Who Use Drugs: Strategies and Opportunities in the Global South Concurrent 1E: Practical Strategies for Collaborating with People Who Use Meth Concurrent 1F: From Evidence to Access: Laying the Foundation for Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine (LADB) in LMICs
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM Poster Tour 01: From Fingerstick to Frontline: Testing and Diagnosis Innovations Poster Tour 02: Pathways to Cure: Advancing Therapeutic Access and Outcomes Poster Tour 03: Tools of Care: Harm Reduction in Action Poster Viewing Session & Digital Posters
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 2A: Insights into Harm Reduction Implementation in Africa Concurrent 2B: Prison Health for People Who Use Drugs Concurrent 2C: “It’s the first time anyone’s asked me what I want”: optimising NSP coverage by focusing on the values and preferences of people who inject drugs Concurrent 2D: Bringing Care to the Margins: How Nurses are Revolutionizing Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs Concurrent 2E: Worker Wellness During Times of Crisis
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM INHSU 2025 GAM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception
Track 1
Track 2
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
First Timers & New Members Meet Up
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1A: Abstract Session - Hepatitis C Elimination and Harm Reduction in Prisons Concurrent 1B: Abstract Session - Peer-Led Models of Care and Community Engagement
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM Poster Tour 01: From Fingerstick to Frontline: Testing and Diagnosis Innovations
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 2A: Insights into Harm Reduction Implementation in Africa Concurrent 2B: Prison Health for People Who Use Drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM INHSU 2025 GAM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM


Track 5
Track 6
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1E: Practical Strategies for Collaborating with People Who Use Meth Concurrent 1F: From Evidence to Access: Laying the Foundation for Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine (LADB) in LMICs
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM Poster Tour 03: Tools of Care: Harm Reduction in Action Poster Viewing Session & Digital Posters
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 2E: Worker Wellness During Times of Crisis
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

Track 1
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
First Timers & New Members Meet Up
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1A: Abstract Session - Hepatitis C Elimination and Harm Reduction in Prisons
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM Poster Tour 01: From Fingerstick to Frontline: Testing and Diagnosis Innovations
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 2A: Insights into Harm Reduction Implementation in Africa
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM INHSU 2025 GAM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Track 2
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
First Timers & New Members Meet Up
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1B: Abstract Session - Peer-Led Models of Care and Community Engagement
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 2B: Prison Health for People Who Use Drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM INHSU 2025 GAM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Track 3
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
First Timers & New Members Meet Up
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1C: Abstract Session - Trends and Prevention of Drug Related Deaths
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM Poster Tour 02: Pathways to Cure: Advancing Therapeutic Access and Outcomes
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 2C: “It’s the first time anyone’s asked me what I want”: optimising NSP coverage by focusing on the values and preferences of people who inject drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM INHSU 2025 GAM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Track 4
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1D: Advancing Policy Reform for People Who Use Drugs: Strategies and Opportunities in the Global South
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 2D: Bringing Care to the Margins: How Nurses are Revolutionizing Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

Track 5
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1E: Practical Strategies for Collaborating with People Who Use Meth
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM Poster Tour 03: Tools of Care: Harm Reduction in Action
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 2E: Worker Wellness During Times of Crisis
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception

Track 6
6:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Registration Opens
7:15 AM - 8:50 AM INHSU 2025 Nurses Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Opening Ceremony
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Scholarships Meetup
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Plenary 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Concurrent 1F: From Evidence to Access: Laying the Foundation for Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine (LADB) in LMICs
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM Poster Viewing Session & Digital Posters
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
INHSU 2025 Welcome Reception


Thursday, October 16, 2025

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Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Open​
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
AbbVie Sponsored Symposium
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 3
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break​
AbbVie Discussion Space Session
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Concurrent 3A: Surviving and thriving in a crisis: the impact of community advisory boards in peer-led responses, sharing experiences and interventions Concurrent 3B: Addressing hepatitis B in the African region: “Learning by doing” to generate evidence and scale-up access to care Concurrent 3C: Inside & Out: Nurse-Led Healthcare in Prisons and Post-Release Concurrent 3D: The State of the Art in Stigma: Key Concepts, Measurement Issues and Evidence-Based Approaches to Reducing Stigma Concurrent 3E: Integrating Mental Health, Harm Reduction and Hepatitis Care to Improve Outcomes
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunchtime Workshop: Research Collaboration and Engagement: A Solutions-Focused Workshop to Identify and Overcome Challenges in Research Implementation and Participation
Sponsored Symposium​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 4A: Abstract Session - Innovations in HCV Prevention, Case Finding and Testing Concurrent 4B: Abstract Session Concurrent 4C: Abstract Session - Opioid Agonist Therapy and Safer Supply: Experiences, Outcomes, and Models Concurrent 4D: Workshop Concurrent 4E: Rewriting the Narrative: Language, Storytelling and Gender-Transformative Advocacy for Harm Reduction Programmes
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 5A: Making the Case: Financing and Sustaining Harm Reduction in a Changing Landscape Concurrent 5B: Stimulant use disorders – new treatments and future directions Concurrent 5C: Implementation Science to Improve Harm Reduction and HCV/HIV Models of Care for People Who Use Drugs Concurrent 5D: Ethical storytelling: A co-created blueprint Concurrent 5E: Pins, Pipes and Paraphernalia: Community Preferences in the Selection of Low Dead Space Syringes and Needles and Other Harm Reduction Commodities
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner


Track 5
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Open​
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
AbbVie Sponsored Symposium
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 3
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
AbbVie Discussion Space Session
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Concurrent 3E: Integrating Mental Health, Harm Reduction and Hepatitis Care to Improve Outcomes
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Sponsored Symposium​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 4E: Rewriting the Narrative: Language, Storytelling and Gender-Transformative Advocacy for Harm Reduction Programmes
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 5E: Pins, Pipes and Paraphernalia: Community Preferences in the Selection of Low Dead Space Syringes and Needles and Other Harm Reduction Commodities
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner


Track 2
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Open​
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
AbbVie Sponsored Symposium
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 3
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break​
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Concurrent 3B: Addressing hepatitis B in the African region: “Learning by doing” to generate evidence and scale-up access to care
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunchtime Workshop: Research Collaboration and Engagement: A Solutions-Focused Workshop to Identify and Overcome Challenges in Research Implementation and Participation
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 4B: Abstract Session
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 5B: Stimulant use disorders – new treatments and future directions
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

Track 3
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Open​
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
AbbVie Sponsored Symposium
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 3
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
AbbVie Discussion Space Session
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Concurrent 3C: Inside & Out: Nurse-Led Healthcare in Prisons and Post-Release
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Sponsored Symposium​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 4C: Abstract Session - Opioid Agonist Therapy and Safer Supply: Experiences, Outcomes, and Models
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 5C: Implementation Science to Improve Harm Reduction and HCV/HIV Models of Care for People Who Use Drugs
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

Track 4
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Open​
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
AbbVie Sponsored Symposium
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 3
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
AbbVie Discussion Space Session
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Concurrent 3D: The State of the Art in Stigma: Key Concepts, Measurement Issues and Evidence-Based Approaches to Reducing Stigma
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Sponsored Symposium​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 4D: Workshop
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 5D: Ethical storytelling: A co-created blueprint
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner

Track 5
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Open​
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
AbbVie Sponsored Symposium
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 3
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
AbbVie Discussion Space Session
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Concurrent 3E: Integrating Mental Health, Harm Reduction and Hepatitis Care to Improve Outcomes
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Sponsored Symposium​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 4E: Rewriting the Narrative: Language, Storytelling and Gender-Transformative Advocacy for Harm Reduction Programmes
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent 5E: Pins, Pipes and Paraphernalia: Community Preferences in the Selection of Low Dead Space Syringes and Needles and Other Harm Reduction Commodities
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM INHSU 2025 Conference Dinner


Friday, October 17, 2025

Track 1
Track 2
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Open​​
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Plenary 4
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours​
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM Poster Tour 04: Under the Surface: Social Determinants and Stigma
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Concurrent 6A: Abstract Session - Scaling Up Hepatitis C Treatment: What Works, What's Next Concurrent 6B: Abstract Session - Integrated Care: From the Hospital to the Community
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​​​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 7A: Understanding and Responding to Synthetic Opioids Concurrent 7B: Harm reduction in South Africa: getting to know our epidemic and ways to improve our responses
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​​
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Plenary 5: Conference Closing


Track 5
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Open​​
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Plenary 4
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours​
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM Poster Tour 06: Emerging Risks, Evolving Responses: Enhancing Health Across Communities and Borders
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Concurrent 6E: Discussion Space
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​​​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 7E: Connections to culture, wellness, social justice, hope and healing; Why framing matters
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​​
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Plenary 5: Conference Closing

Track 1
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Open​​
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Plenary 4
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours​
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM Poster Tour 04: Under the Surface: Social Determinants and Stigma
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Concurrent 6A: Abstract Session - Scaling Up Hepatitis C Treatment: What Works, What's Next
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​​​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 7A: Understanding and Responding to Synthetic Opioids
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​​
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Plenary 5: Conference Closing

Track 2
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Open​​
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Plenary 4
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours​
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Concurrent 6B: Abstract Session - Integrated Care: From the Hospital to the Community
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​​​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 7B: Harm reduction in South Africa: getting to know our epidemic and ways to improve our responses
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​​
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Plenary 5: Conference Closing

Track 3
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Open​​
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Plenary 4
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours​
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM Poster Tour 05: Bridging the Gaps: Increasing Access and Continuity of Care
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Concurrent 6C: Abstract Session - Policy and Partnerships
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​​​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 7C: Monitoring WHO HCV elimination targets – UK progress & implications for other settings
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​​
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Plenary 5: Conference Closing

Track 4
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Open​​
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Plenary 4
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours​
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Concurrent 6D: Applying Implementation Science to Improve Care for People Who Use Drugs: Practical Tools, Frameworks, and Strategies
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​​​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 7D: The Foundations of Qualitative Research: A Workshop to Build Researcher and Community Capacity
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​​
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Plenary 5: Conference Closing

Track 5
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Open​​
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Plenary 4
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break & Poster Tours​
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM Poster Tour 06: Emerging Risks, Evolving Responses: Enhancing Health Across Communities and Borders
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Concurrent 6E: Discussion Space
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch​​​
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent 7E: Connections to culture, wellness, social justice, hope and healing; Why framing matters
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break​​​
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Plenary 5: Conference Closing


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