Healthcare Professionals

What Healthcare Professionals does

Healthcare Professionals (United Research Forum, or URF) is a London-based, privately held organization that plans and operates international conferences, webinars, and academic publishing services in the nursing, public health, and integrated healthcare sectors. Founded in 2020, URF runs an annual portfolio of events — Nursing Virtual 2020, Public Health 2021, the Global Congress on Integrated Healthcare (GCIH 2022), the Global Wellness and Healthcare Congress 2023 (Dubai), and Nursing Congress 2023 (Singapore) — delivered virtually via Zoom, as hybrid events, and as in-person gatherings at hotel venues. The organization also publishes conference proceedings with ISBN and DOI assignments and operates the peer-reviewed Journal of Integrated Health (ISSN 2583-5386) through URF Publishers, offering discounted Article Processing Charges to conference participants.

URF monetizes through one-time conference registration fees (with early-bird, member, author, and student tiers), proceedings and journal publishing fees, and CME/CPD accreditation delivered in partnership with The CPD Group. Its technology stack is commodity rather than proprietary: Zoom for virtual delivery, Google Translate for multilingual accessibility, YouTube for hosted conference video, and digital publishing pipelines for ISBN/DOI-registered outputs. Distribution is event-driven, anchored by a scientific committee of international experts and university partnerships (notably Mutah University in Jordan), which together drive attendance across 20–30 countries per event with peak participation of 300+ delegates.

The customer base is fragmented and individual: healthcare professionals, researchers, academics, graduate students, and a smaller tier of healthcare-industry exhibitors and sponsors. The leadership team is small — Dr. Vanga as Director & CEO and Prof. Elvessa Narvasa as Conference President and Head of Scientific Committee. URF discloses no external funding, no parent entity, and no institutional ownership; revenue is not publicly reported. The business model is fundamentally a low-margin conference services operation layered with an academic publishing adjunct, with scale that remains modest by event-industry standards.

Name

Healthcare Professionals

Legal name

United Research Forum

Website

https://nursinghealthforum.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Healthcare Professionals (United Research Forum) is a London-based private organization that plans international nursing and healthcare conferences and publishes peer-reviewed journals and proceedings, serving healthcare professionals, researchers, academics, and students globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Conferences and Academic Publishing

NAICS

Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare & Medical Congresses (MPAGAGAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Association & Society Conference Management (Nonprofit, Professional Bodies) (THAHACAA), Medical & Health Sciences Congresses (THAHAJAA), Academic & Scientific Conferences (MPAGAGAD), Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK), Conference Proceedings & Research Reports Publishing (EDAGAFAL)

Keywords

• International healthcare conferences
• Nursing congress events
• Medical research proceedings
• Peer-reviewed health journals
• CME CPD accreditation

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Conference Registration Fees: Revenue generated from delegate registrations for international healthcare conferences including virtual webinars and physical/hybrid events. Fees vary with early-bird and standard rates, with discounts for members.
2. Conference Proceedings Publication: All accepted conference abstracts/papers published with ISBN and DOI in United Research Forum conference proceedings. Authors encouraged to submit extended full manuscripts to the Journal of Integrated Health with ISSN 2583-5386.
3. Journal Publishing: Extended manuscript submissions to Journal of Integrated Health with discounted Article Processing Charge (APC) for conference participants.
4. CME/CPD Accreditation: Continuing medical education credits offered through The CPD Group partnership, providing additional value to conference attendees.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

United Research Forum organizes international conferences and webinars for the healthcare and nursing community, delivered as virtual Zoom events, hybrid, or in-person gatherings at hotel venues worldwide. Accepted abstracts and papers are published with ISBN and DOI in conference proceedings, with selected full manuscripts further published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Integrated Health (ISSN 2583-5386). Conference attendees can earn CME/CPD continuing education credits through a partnership with The CPD Group.

Product overview

Healthcare Professionals (United Research Forum) operates as a conference and academic publishing organization rather than a traditional software product company. The core offerings are international healthcare and nursing conferences (Nursing Congress 2023, GCIH 2022, Global Wellness Congress 2023, Public Health 2021, Nursing Virtual 2020), which serve as knowledge-sharing platforms with accompanying publishing services including the Journal of Integrated Health and Conference Proceedings with ISBN/DOI. The portfolio functions as an integrated academic ecosystem connecting researchers, healthcare professionals, and students through events and scholarly publications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nursing Congress 2023 (4th International Conference on Nursing and Healthcare) International nursing and healthcare conference bringing together nurses, healthcare professionals, academics, and researchers for oral presentations, poster sessions, and recorded video presentations, with accepted abstracts published in the United Research Forum conference proceedings.
• Nursing Virtual 2020 (International Webinar on Nursing and Healthcare) Virtual international webinar conducted via Zoom platform focusing on Healthcare Management in Today's Highly Interconnected World, bringing together 250 participants from 20 countries.
• Public Health 2021 (International E-Conference on Public Health) Virtual international e-conference on Public Health with the theme Using predictive models from public health to improve the quality of life, delivering virtual sessions to participants from 30 countries.
• Global Congress on Integrated Healthcare (GCIH 2022) Physical conference organized in collaboration with Mutah University at Hotel Crowne Plaza Dead Sea, Jordan, focusing on Healthcare Management in Today's Highly Interconnected World and attracting 300+ participants from 28 countries.
• Global Wellness and Healthcare Congress 2023 Hybrid conference held in Dubai combining in-person and virtual attendance via Zoom, with 100+ global participants.
• Journal of Integrated Health (JIH) Peer-reviewed journal affiliated with United Research Forum, publishing research articles on multidisciplinary healthcare areas, accepting extended full manuscripts from conference participants with ISSN 2583-5386 and DOI assignment.
• Conference Proceedings Publication Conference abstracts and papers published with ISBN and DOI in United Research Forum conference proceedings, providing permanent digital records of accepted research for academic citation.

Quantifiable outcome

• 300+ international participants from 28 countries at GCIH 2022
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Mutah UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 May 2022Collaboration with Mutah University, Jordan for organizing the Global Congress on Integrated Healthcare (GCIH 2022). The conference was held at Hotel Crowne Plaza Dead Sea Jordan with 300+ participants from 28 countries. Prof. Dr. Arafat Atwi Awajan, President of Mutah University, served as conference president.
• The CPD GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCME/CPD accreditation partner providing continuing medical education credits for conference attendees. Conference application for CME/CPD credits submitted for approval.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• MDPI: Major open-access publisher with extensive healthcare journal portfolio and associated conference sponsorships. Represents the scaled, established version of URF's publishing model.
• BioMed Central (Springer Nature): Established open-access publisher with deep conference proceedings offerings in healthcare. Represents the incumbent standard against which URF's journal and proceedings compete for authors.
• Hindawi (now part of Wiley): Open-access academic publisher operating hundreds of peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings in healthcare and sciences. Compares on the journal/proceedings publishing side of URF's business.
• Informa (Healthcare/Conferences Division): Global events and publishing giant running major healthcare congresses such as Arab Health and Hospitalar. Represents the scaled incumbent benchmark for healthcare conference organization that URF competes against for sponsors and speakers.

Direct peers

• Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP): Open-access publisher organizing scientific conferences and journals across healthcare and life sciences. Comparable in scale, format, and the pay-to-publish proceedings model URF operates.
• OMICS International: A large organizer of open-access scientific conferences and journals with similar pay-to-publish proceedings model across healthcare and life sciences. Operates at significantly greater scale with similar per-event attendance profile and predatory-publisher reputation.
• Pulsus Group: Healthcare-focused conference organizer and publisher offering medical congresses, scientific events, and open-access journals. Closely mirrors URF's combination of conference registration fees and proceedings publication revenue.
• Allied Academies: Organizes international healthcare and life-sciences conferences with open-access journal portfolio. Mirrors URF's hybrid format and ISBN-assigned proceedings approach.
• ConferenceSeries (OMICS subsidiary): Conference organizing brand under OMICS running thousands of international events in nursing, healthcare, and medicine. Directly comparable event-driven GTM and proceedings-with-ISBN product.
• EuroSciCon: UK-based organizer of international healthcare, nursing, and life-sciences conferences using Zoom and in-person formats. Targets identical nursing and healthcare professional segments with similar registration-based revenue.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nursing-forum

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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