Call for Proposals

2017 AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference

General Information

AcademyHealth's National Health Policy Conference (NHPC) brings together health care decision-makers, advocates, consumers, patients, researchers and leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss the health policy agenda for the year ahead in the context of the existing evidence base, its strengths and limitations.

The Call for Proposals is intended to give researchers, policymakers, and the professionals who connect them an opportunity to provide timely examples of policy innovation, implementation and/or evaluation, emphasizing how evidence has been used or could be used in the years ahead to either inform, develop and evaluate federal and/or state policy. Proposals are encouraged to include:

1. A description of the policy innovation, implementation, or evaluation with special attention given to whether and how evidence and/or data was or could be used, and if not, why not; and
2. How the proposed presentation relates to current policy debates and climate at either the state or federal level.

Proposals that describe lessons learned in policy development and implementation and help us understand how policy influences and/or changes practice are especially welcome. In addition, Policy Roundtables should reflect multiple points of view to maximize diversity of participants, perspectives and balance. Proposal submitters will be asked to select from a list of current policy themes at the point of submission.

The deadline for submission is Friday, September 30, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. ET. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of experts, including representatives from the 2017 NHPC Advisory Committee. For each of the four concurrent breakout timeslots at NHPC, 1-2 sessions from the open Call for Proposals will be selected.

Instructions and Needed Information for Submitting a Proposal:

1. Theme

   Select the current policy theme that best fits your submission:

   • Health Care Coverage and Access
   • Health Care Payment and Delivery System Reform
   • Other Health Care Marketplace and Private Sector Initiatives
   • Public and Population Health
   • Other

2. Title

   • Enter your title in title case. Do not end titles with a period.
   • Enter the submitter's e-mail addresses where correspondence should be sent regarding the submission.
   • Answer any additional questions specific to the call that you are submitting to.

3. Author

   • Type the lead presenter's name in the provided box.
   • If the presenter is already in the system, you can select their pre-populated information or update the information from previous years.
   • If the presenter is not already in the system, you will be prompted to create a new record.
   • You must include information for all fields with a star.
   • To add additional co-presenters for the Policy Roundtables, click the 'add new author' button.
   • You can edit the order of the co-presenters by using the up and down arrows. The order they appear on the screen is the order they will be listed online.

4. Submission Text

   • Enter the text of your submission proposal (see specific word limit with session type below).

5. Confirmation

   • Review your submission.
   • You may return to any step of the process by using the left hand navigation bar.
   • You may print your submission at this point.
   • Once your submission is complete, press the 'conclude submission button'.
   • You may return to your submission to review or edit at any point before the September 30, 2016 deadline using the provided ID and password.

6. General Instructions

   Submitters will be automatically informed of the unique ID numbers and passwords assigned to their submissions. Submissions may be viewed and modified at any time between submission and the deadline, using the assigned ID# and password.

   Technical Support

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