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The world’s leading membership organisation for those with a professional commitment to helping people affected by headache

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This site promotes the Society and its activities, and is home to the Society’s international journal Cephalalgia. We welcome Society members and all who work or seek information in the field of headache.

As a charity, the purpose of IHS is to advance headache science, education, and management, and promote headache awareness worldwide.

The official journal of the International Headache Society
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The founding Editor of Cephalalgia has passed away aged 94

The founding Editor of Cephalalgia has passed away aged 94

IHS was saddened to learn of the death of Professor Ottar Sjaastad from Norway, who founded Cephalalgia in 1981

Cephalalgia seeks a new Editor-in-Chief

Cephalalgia seeks a new Editor-in-Chief

Applications are invited to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of Cephalalgia from January 2025. Application deadline 9 January 2023

First ROPE-IHS meeting held in Malawi

First ROPE-IHS meeting held in Malawi

40 clinical officers invited to attend workshop run by leading international headache specialists

Research opportunity in Brazil – Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroepidemiology of Headache

Research opportunity in Brazil - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroepidemiology of Headache

2-year fellowship at HUUSP (Hospital Universitário, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil