Australian Lifestyle Psychiatry Symposium 2026

Dates: Thursday 19th March 12:30pm – 5pm, and Friday 20th March 9am – 4pm, 2026

Location: Deakin Downtown Corporate Centre, Level 12, Tower 2, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne

Join leading researchers advancing the field of lifestyle psychiatry at the inaugural Australian Lifestyle Psychiatry Symposium; a landmark event uniting researchers across all domains of lifestyle psychiatry to drive collaboration, set national research priorities, and spark innovation.

Program highlights include:

• Hands-on workshops to collaboratively develop actionable strategies, innovative projects, and competitive grant applications that advance our research priorities.
• Thought-provoking panel sessions featuring leading experts and lived experience voices to drive critical discussion on challenges and future directions in lifestyle psychiatry.
• Dynamic rapid-fire presentations to spotlight cutting-edge research, highlight overlapping interests, and spark new interdisciplinary collaborations.

This is a must-attend event for senior academics, early-career researchers, and graduate students eager to shape the future of mental health research in Australia.

As part of the symposium, you’ll have the unique opportunity to participate in a research priority-setting project (Deakin University HREC Project ID: 2025/HE001221), which will inform a coordinated national research agenda publication. Please view the Plain Language Statement and Consent Form: . We encourage you to download this document for your own reference.

For more information about the symposium, including abstract submissions and travel grants, visit the ALPS website.

Brought to you by: International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and LifePsych Society.

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