AcademyHealth Interest Groups (IG) facilitate interaction around specific topic areas relating to health services research and health policy. During the 2026 ARM, many IGs will host meetings and feature leading research. The below Interest Groups accepted proposals via a Call for Abstracts. Interest Group’s Call for Abstracts are managed separately from the Annual Research Meeting Call for Abstracts.

AcademyHealth believes the audience for work submitted to an IG is different from the audience at the main meeting, therefore we welcome you to submit your abstract to both calls.

Interest GroupDeadlineLink
Health Economics (41.11 KB)
Saturday, February 21Submit here
Oral Health (47.07 KB)
Friday, February 27Submit here
Health Information Technology (46.49 KB)
Saturday, February 28Submit here
Learning Health Systems (62.13 KB)
Thursday, March 5Submit here
Public Health Systems and Services Research (52.1 KB)
Friday, March 6Submit here
Quality and Value (53.46 KB)
Monday, March 9Submit here
Long-Term Services and Supports (46.44 KB)
Tuesday, March 10Submit here

You do not need to be an AcademyHealth member or an Interest Group member to submit an abstract. However, if accepted for presentation, you will need to register for 2026 Annual Research Meeting to participate in the IG meeting.