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International Conference on Assisted Dying and Other End of Life Care (ICEL5)
The Australian Centre for Health Law Research invites you to join us for an engaging program of interdisciplinary research on assisted dying.
This is an in-person event held at the Gardens Point Campus of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia from Wednesday 8th April to Saturday 11th April 2026.
We welcome presentations sharing empirical, ethical, legal and clinical perspectives on assisted dying and its intersection with other end of life issues. We hope you will join us for this stimulating four-day program of interest to academics, researchers, legal and health practitioners, policymakers and more.
Registration is now open
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To give an indication of the breadth of topics included in the ICEL5 program, please click below to read a selection of accepted abstracts and presenters.
Conference Key Dates
| Call for abstracts opens | Monday 9 June 2025 |
| Registration opens | Monday 9 June 2025 |
| Call for abstracts closes | Tuesday 30 September 2025 |
| Notification of abstract outcome | Friday 31 October 2025 |
| Registration deadline for presenting authors | Sunday 30 November 2025 |
| Early bird registration closes | Sunday 30 November 2025 |
| Registration closes | Monday 23 March 2026 |
On behalf of the Scientific Committee
Lindy Willmott, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kenneth Chambaere, Ghent University, Belgium
Luc Deliens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
James Downar, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jocelyn Downie, Dalhousie University, Canada
Constance MacIntosh, Dalhousie University, Canada
Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands
Thaddeus Pope, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, USA
Agnes van der Heide, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
