The Portuguese National Conference on Health Economics promoted by the Portuguese Association for Health Economics presents a unique opportunity to debate, review, and disseminate major developments in research and policy. It brings the work of researchers based in Portugal and all over the world to a wide audience of health providers, managers and decision-makers.

Most of the Conference program will consist of oral presentations of scientific work, submitted through the Call for Papers. The 18^th edition of CNES will also include a set of sessions with an new format, aiming to discuss innovative projects of the Portuguese health system using rom a research and evidence-generation perspective (Innovation & Research sessions). The Call for projects is now open till 28 of July.