Abstracts, symposia, panels, and workshops may address one or more of the following proposed tracks. Each track is also available as a topic when submitting an abstract.
Track 1: Implementation Theories, Models, and Frameworks
- Selection and application of implementation frameworks
- Framework adaptation for Asian contexts
- Theory development and testing
- Mechanisms of implementation
- Combining implementation and behavioural science theories
Track 2: Implementation Research Designs and Methods
- Hybrid effectiveness–implementation designs
- Cluster randomized and pragmatic trials
- Adaptive and optimization designs
- Natural experiments and quasi-experimental studies
- Qualitative and mixed-methods research
- Realist evaluation
- Systems thinking and complexity-informed methods
- Participatory and community-based research
- Measurement of implementation outcomes
Track 3: Context, Adaptation, and Fidelity
- Understanding multilevel context
- Intervention adaptation
- Fidelity–adaptation balance
- Cultural and linguistic adaptation
- Context assessment and readiness
- Local knowledge and implementation
- Documentation of adaptations
- Intervention core functions and forms
Track 4: Implementation Strategies
- Designing and selecting implementation strategies
- Tailoring strategies to barriers and facilitators
- Strategy specification and reporting
- Testing strategy effectiveness
- Mechanisms of implementation strategies
- Implementation facilitation
- Audit and feedback
- Training, supervision, coaching, and technical assistance
Track 5: Scale-up, Sustainability, and De-implementation
- Scaling evidence-based interventions
- Institutionalization within routine systems
- Sustainability and sustainment
- Spread across organizations and jurisdictions
- De-implementation of ineffective or harmful practices
- Long-term implementation outcomes
- Policy and financing for scale
Track 6: Policy, Governance, and Health Systems
- Implementation of national and subnational policies
- Evidence-informed policymaking
- Leadership and governance
- Organizational change
- Implementation within primary healthcare
- Public–private collaboration
- Integration into routine service delivery
- Decentralized and federal health systems
Track 7: Equity and Community Partnership
- Equity-focused implementation science
- Community engagement and co-creation
- Gender and social inclusion
- Implementation among underserved populations
- Rural, remote, and geographically difficult settings
- Migrant, displaced, and conflict-affected populations
- Indigenous and locally grounded knowledge
- Power, ethics, and representation in implementation research
Track 8: Digital Innovation and Data-Driven Implementation
- Digital health and telehealth
- Artificial intelligence and implementation
- Mobile health interventions
- Digital implementation strategies
- Routine data for implementation monitoring
- Learning health systems
- Data dashboards and decision support
- Digital equity, privacy, and ethical implementation
Track 9: Implementation Economics
- Cost of implementation strategies
- Economic evaluation of implementation
- Cost-effectiveness and budget impact
- Affordability and financial sustainability
- Resource allocation
- Business cases for scale-up
- Measuring implementation efficiency and value
Track 10: Capacity Strengthening and the Future Workforce
- Implementation science education
- Competency-based training
- Mentorship and career development
- Institutional capacity strengthening
- Communities of practice
- Teaching implementation science
- Embedded implementation research
- Building sustainable regional research networks
Cross-cutting
Cross-cutting Application Areas
Submissions may address implementation within areas including:
●Primary healthcare
●Maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health
●Noncommunicable diseases
●Mental health and suicide prevention
●Infectious diseases
●Cancer prevention and care
●Nutrition and food systems
●Ageing and long-term care
●Rehabilitation and disability
●Climate change and planetary health
●Emergency and humanitarian settings
●Occupational and environmental health
●Education and social services
●Health promotion and disease prevention
Ready to Submit?
Ready to Submit?
See the submission categories, abstract structure, and review criteria on the Call for Abstracts page.