Deadline for Submitting Abstracts to Dissemination and Implementation Conference Is August 4

Abstracts are being accepted for the 9th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health in December. The deadline for submissions is August 4 at 5 p.m. ET. The conference, to be held December 14-15 in Washington, D.C., is being cohosted by the National Institutes for Health and AcademyHealth, and cosponsored by AHRQ, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This year’s conference theme, “Mapping the Complexity and Dynamism of the Field,” is aimed at expanding research and bridging the gap between evidence, practice and policy in health and medicine. Conference tracks are behavioral health; big data and technology for dissemination and implementation research; clinical care settings; global dissemination and implementation; health policy dissemination and implementation; models, measures and methods; precision medicine; prevention and public health; and promoting health equity and eliminating disparities.