Field in Focus: Best Practices for Presenting Virtually

Overview

Due to COVID-19, many conferences and learning opportunities have shifted to virtual events, which presents new challenges and opportunities to effectively communicate research. As we head into conference season, AcademyHealth’s Director of Communications and Public Relations, Lauren Adams, and Research Associate, Angel Han provided practical guidance for overcoming the challenges of virtual presentations.

Attendees walked away with resources and tools to deliver research effectively at a virtual conference, overcome barriers to audience engagement in a virtual environment, amplify research using social media, and create buzz for conference attendees to participate in your virtual session.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this webinar, participants should be able to:

Define key characteristics of compelling content and delivery
Learn how to use visuals to reinforce your message
Identify methods to engage audience members virtually
Understand actions required for smooth logistics and technology

View the slides from the presentation here.

Watch Recorded Webinar

Resources

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Speaker List

Moderator:

Staff

Angélica Rodríguez

Director of Membership - AcademyHealth

Angélica Rodríguez is the Director of Membership for AcademyHealth. Read Bio

Presenters:

Staff

Lauren Adams, M.A.

Senior Director of Communications and Marketing - AcademyHealth

Lauren Adams, M.A., is senior director of communications and marketing at AcademyHealth, where she oversees st... Read Bio

Author

Angel Han, M.P.H.

Angel Han was a Research Associate at AcademyHealth on the Health Services Research Projects (HSRProj) team un... Read Bio

That's a Wrap!

10th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
December 4-6, 2017 | Crystal Gateway Marriott | Arlington, VA

More than 1,200 attendees converged in Arlington, VA to bridge the gap between research, practice, and policy in health and health care. Over the course of two and half days, attendees reflected on the accomplishments of and challenges to the field, and focused on the opportunities ahead.

2017 Keynote Speaker:

Presenter

Sandro Galea, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.

Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean - Boston University School of Public Health

Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston Universi... Read Bio

View This Year's Presentations
This year's D&I conference included many diverse sessions presented by some of the best in the field. View the 2017 online agenda to download presentation slides. Slides were approved and posted on the online agenda on an individual basis. To download presentations, locate the specific session in the online agenda and search for the presenter information.

10th Annual D&I Conference Theme Song
Performed by the conference co-chair, David Chambers, D.Phil., National Cancer Institute, NIH

Getting Social at the 2017 D&I Conference
#DIscience17 attendees are a lively bunch. Check out the Twitter activity from this year's conference (December 4-6).

Impressions: 5.402 Million
Tweets: 3,262
Participants: 701

Top #DIscience17 Tweeters:

About the D&I Conference

Quality research generates the evidence needed to optimize health and health care in the United States and elsewhere. However, the full potential of evidence can only be realized if it is effectively incorporated into health practice and policy. The Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (D&I), co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and AcademyHealth, bridges the gap between research, practice, and policy in health and health care.

This conference intends to support collective understanding of the research agenda to incorporate these challenges into D&I research through a combination of plenaries, concurrent and poster sessions that will present research findings and identify the next set of research priorities, setting the field up for the next decade.