We are pleased to announce the 2026 Fall Meeting of the Wennberg International Collaborative in Odense, Denmark. The city of Odense is a major center of higher education and culture in Denmark about 90 minutes by train from the Copenhagen airport.
This year’s Wennberg International Collaborative (WIC) conference convenes a community of scholars, policymakers, and health care innovators that provide support to those studying the causes and consequences of unwarranted variation in health care across regions and hospitals. The meeting is held in a plenary format with topics that range from new critical questions, novel methods, recent findings, and innovative policy and improvement ideas.
The annual WIC fall meetings provide an international forum that convenes invited academic researchers, policy makers, and health care change agents. The meeting is primarily organized as short presentations with ample time for discussion and networking. Longer talks are also included that are designed to address common challenges in methods, inference, communication to policy makers and providers, and in using the data for improvement. This meeting includes a session focused on the Danish health care system with innovative health system leaders. For a high level of participation and networking, the meeting format is a single plenary session with attendance generally by invitation or nomination.
The Wennberg International Collaborative (WIC) was established in 2010 with the mission to provide a community for those interested in understanding and reducing unwarranted health care variation within countries, and to share ideas, methods, results and techniques for communicating to affect change.
This year’s registration fee of DKK 1900 includes the venue and catering, such as lunch and a reception on Wednesday, and lunch and the conference dinner on Thursday.
Reduced registration fees DKK 1200 are available for participants in training and for attendees from low- and middle-income countries.
The upcoming Wennberg Collaborative Meeting at SDU is supported by a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, whose support we gratefully acknowledge.
