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 open! Please use this link to complete your submission. Submissions for plenary considerations are still eligible for submission to the individual Call for Abstracts, if reformatted to meet the abstract criteria.
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?