Plenary submissions are now closed.
D&I Impact Stories at Work: Call for Plenary Submissions
In the spirit of the meeting theme for the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) in Health, Realizing the Benefits of D&I Science, the planning committee is excited to announce a special call for impact stories describing how D&I science led to measurable and sustained health and/or service delivery improvements, economic or payment reforms, or policy change.
The new "D&I Impact Stories at Work" plenary session will provide selected participants with the opportunity to share the impact of D&I Science in an engaging panel session, followed by a moderated discussion to share lessons learned.
Eight to ten presenters will be chosen to present during this plenary using a Lightning/Ignite-style format (i.e., a five-minute presentation using slides that advance automatically).
Benefits
If selected, the presenting speaker will receive:
- Complementary conference registration
- Personalized coaching to help prepare you for a successful presentation
How to Submit a Story
Submissions are now closed.
Submission Timeline
Submissions Open: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Submissions Close: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. ET
Please note that the deadline for this call is different from the Call for Abstracts deadline.
Notifications: Mid-September 2025
Story Qualifications
Selected D&I impact stories should engage and inspire a broad audience and effectively communicate the following:
The What: What was the motivating implementation, quality, or outcome gap?
The How: How was this gap addressed through D&I science?
The Why: Why does this story matter for the D&I field?
D&I impact stories should report impacts in at least one of these areas:
- Patient, Community and Population Health Impacts
How did D&I research lead to improved patient health, expanded receipt of care for a population or community or other patient outcomes? Has the effect been sustained in participating sites and/or scaled up or spread to other care settings or communities?
- Health Service Delivery Impacts
How did D&I research lead to improved adherence to clinical guidelines or adoption of evidence-based practices, or reduced provider burnout? Was this change sustained, scaled, or spread?
- Economic/Payment Reform or Policy Change
How did D&I research lead to new regulations, policies or payment models? Have these findings been utilized by decision-makers in other ways?
Requirements
- Submissions must be 1750 characters (~250 words) or less and clearly articulate a compelling story of real-world impact.
- Submissions must identify one (or more) of the areas identified above.
- If your submission is chosen for presentation, you will be required to:
- Attend a pre-conference group orientation session (date TBD) on the IGNITE format, provide an elevator pitch of your narrative/story to inform order/flow/grouping, and address questions
- Submit slides for review by planning committee prior to the conference (exact date TBD)
- Attend a practice ‘dry run’ that will take place prior to the conference (exact date TBD)
Review Criteria
Submissions will be evaluated using the following criteria:
- Does the impact story:
- Document impact within the study period and offer evidence of sustained impact on patient health, practice or policy outcomes, or broader impact via scale-up or spread, beyond the study period.
- Clearly explain how these impacts were achieved.
- Clearly articulate why the impacts matter for patient or population health, service delivery, economic/payment reform or policy.
- If applicable, reflect voices or viewpoints of patients, community members and front-line health professionals.
- Is the impact story compelling? Does it offer the likelihood of effectively conveying the impacts to a broad audience?