CHANDIGARH, Feb. 14 -- Dr Vivek Lal, Director, PGIMER Chandigarh, inaugurated PHASECON 2026,* a students' conference, on Friday, February 13, 2026. The Public Health Association for Students' Edification (PHASE) organised the conference under the aegis of the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh. The theme for this year was "Evidence-Based, AI Enabled: Public Health 2.0". The conference witnessed participation from over *160 delegates. Distinguished experts present included experts from PGIMER, WHO South-East Asia Regional Office, the Gates Foundation, AIIMS New Delhi, AIIMS Guwahati, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, ICMR New Delhi, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology,...