Call for Submissions: Open Forum for Quality Improvement and Innovation in Public Health, Community of Practice for Public Health Improvement and Innovation
From the call:
Submission Criteria
So who should submit an abstract to present at Open Forum? Public health practitioners who have interesting processes/resources/tools to share on topics related to performance improvement, accreditation readiness, or innovation in their health departments or community.
When submitting your abstract, you will select your preferred track and format. See additional details below regarding track criteria and possible formats.
Please read the below criteria for each track to best determine which track best fits your proposed project abstract.
For the QI and Accreditation Readiness Track will be accepting abstracts on the following topics:
- Performance Management systems/processes/measurement
- Quality Improvement projects/resources/tools/processes
- Building a culture of QI and/or stakeholder engagement
- Community Health Assessment or Improvement Plans
- Community engagement in QI and accreditation
- Workforce Development
- Strategic plans or aligning organizational plans
- Health Equity
- Health in All Policy / Health Impact Assessment
- Other performance Improvement topics or projects
- For the Innovation in Public Health track we’ll be using the Public Health National Center for Innovations definition of Innovation: “Public health innovation refers to the development of a new process, policy, product, or program that increases quality, impact, and efficiency.”
Submissions for this track must meet the characteristics of Innovation, which include:
- Is novel, new, or creative;
- Reflects the dynamic state of change inherent in public health transformation;
- Occurs by internal or cross-sector collaboration;
- Involves co-production of the process, policy, product, or program with partners, stakeholders, and/or customers;
- Has the potential to generate a new or improved means to create value;
- Lends itself to adaptation and adoption/replication and diffusion;
- Generates real-time information for evaluation and course correction; and
- If related to technology, uses open-source technology (i.e., the technology is in the public domain) so as to facilitate adaption and adoption/replication.