ACIS 2027 invites submissions from researchers, implementers, policymakers, health professionals, community organisations, educators, students, and other professionals working to improve the adoption, delivery, scale, and sustainability of evidence-informed interventions and policies.
We welcome abstracts from three broad contributor categories:
- Research
- Implementation Practitioners
- Industry
Research
This category is intended for researchers, academics, students, and research teams presenting empirical or methodological work related to implementation science.
Submissions may include:
- Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods implementation research
- Implementation science theories, frameworks, and methods
- Health-system and policy implementation research
- Equity-focused and community-engaged implementation research
- Adaptation, scale-up, and sustainability research
- Digital health and technology-enabled implementation
- Implementation research protocols or work in progress
- Systematic, scoping, or other relevant evidence syntheses
Implementation Practitioners
This category is intended for professionals directly involved in implementing evidence-informed interventions, programmes, policies, or services in real-world settings. Please include how the implementation was assessed and what evidence supports the lessons.
Submissions may include:
- Experiences implementing evidence-informed interventions
- Programme implementation and scale-up
- Implementation strategies used in practice
- Adaptation of interventions to local contexts
- Implementation challenges and solutions
- Lessons learned from implementation
- Health-system strengthening and service delivery
- Policy implementation experiences
- Sustainability and institutionalisation of programmes
- Practical innovations and approaches that have supported implementation
Submissions in this category do not necessarily need to follow a conventional research paper structure, but should clearly describe the implementation context, approach, experience or evidence, key learning, and implications for implementation practice
Industry
This category welcomes contributions from industry, technology companies, digital health companies, consultancies, and other organisations contributing to implementation science and the translation, adoption, scale-up, or sustainability of evidence-informed innovations. Please disclose funding and commercial interests. The submission must provide implementation evidence or learning; abstracts considering primarily of product promotion will not be considered.
Submissions may include:
- Implementation of health technologies and innovations
- Digital health implementation
- Technology adoption and scale-up
- Implementation of diagnostics, therapeutics, or medical technologies
- Industry–health-system partnerships
- Implementation challenges and lessons from product or service delivery
- Approaches to sustainability and scale
- Data, AI, and technology-enabled implementation
- Methods or tools supporting implementation in real-world settings
Industry submissions should clearly demonstrate their relevance to implementation science and/or the implementation of evidence-informed health innovations.
Presentation Formats
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for the following presentation formats. Authors may indicate their preferred format during submission; however, the Scientific Committee will make the final allocation based on the submission’s quality, content, and fit within the conference programme.
Oral Presentation
A 12-minute presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session. Oral presentations may be selected from submissions that demonstrate a clear contribution to implementation science, practice, policy, or innovation and provide sufficient evidence, findings, or learning to support a substantive presentation.
Lightning Talk
A concise 5-minute oral presentation highlighting a key finding, emerging idea, implementation experience, methodological innovation, or practical lesson. This will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Lightning talks may be particularly suitable for:
- Research in progress
- Early-stage implementation research
- Emerging findings
- Innovative implementation approaches
- Programme or practice-based experiences
- Case studies
- Novel methodological or theoretical ideas
- Lessons learned from implementation challenges or adaptations
Poster Presentation
A visual presentation of completed or ongoing research, implementation initiatives, programme experiences, or methodological work. Poster presenters will be expected to be available during designated poster sessions to discuss their work and respond to questions from participants.
Abstract Submission Requirements
General Requirements
- Language: Abstracts must be submitted in English.
- Word limit: Abstracts must be a maximum of 300 words, excluding the title, author names, and affiliations.
- Format: Abstracts should be submitted through the official online abstract submission system.
- Abstracts should not include tables, figures, graphs, images, or references, unless otherwise specified by the conference organisers.
- Abstracts should present sufficient information to allow reviewers to understand the purpose, approach, key findings or expected contribution, and relevance to implementation science.
Information Required During Submission
The submission form will request the following information:
Title
The title should be:
- Concise and informative
- Specific to the work being presented
- Reflective of the study, implementation experience, or contribution
Authors and Affiliations
Please provide:
- Full name of each author, in the order in which they should appear
- Institutional affiliation and country for each author
- Corresponding author
- Presenting author
- Up to two affiliations per author, where applicable
Main body
Authors are encouraged to structure their abstracts using the following headings. The specific structure may be adapted depending on the nature of the submission.
- Background and objectives: Briefly describe the health, programme, policy, or implementation problem being addressed. Explain why the issue is important and state the study or implementation objectives.
- Methods or implementation approach: Describe the study design, methods, implementation approach, setting, population, intervention, implementation strategies, or other relevant methods. For practice- or programme-based submissions, describe the approach taken and how implementation was assessed.
- Results or lessons learned: Present the main findings, including relevant quantitative or qualitative results, implementation outcomes, experiences, or lessons learned. For ongoing studies or implementation initiatives, clearly indicate the current stage of the work and any findings available to date.
- Conclusion and implementation implications: Summarise the key contribution of the work and its implications for implementation practice, health systems, policy, research, or future implementation efforts.
- Relevance to Implementation Science: Briefly explain how the submission contributes to implementation science and/or the implementation of evidence-informed interventions, programmes, or policies.
Submission categories:
- Research
- Implementation Practitioners
- Industry
Preferred Presentation Format
Authors may indicate their preferred format:
- Oral presentation
- Lightning talk
- Poster presentation
The Scientific Committee reserves the right to assign a different presentation format.
Conference Theme
Authors should select the theme that best aligns with their submission.
- Implementation Science theories, methods and measurements
- Exploration and evaluation of implementation context
- Designing, adapting, and evaluating implementation strategies
- Embedding evidence in policy and health systems
- Community Engagement, equity and locally led implementation
- Scale-up, sustainability and de-implementation
- Implementation cost, financing and economic evaluation
- Digital health, data, and artificial intelligence in implementation
- Workforce, leadership and implementation capacity
- Learning from implementation in practice
- Implementation across sectors and changing context
Consent and permissions
By submitting an abstract, authors provide consent for the abstract to be:
- Included in the conference programme;
- Published on the ACIS conference website;
- Included in conference proceedings or an abstract book, where applicable; and
- Shared through official conference communication and dissemination channels.
For accepted presentations, presenters may also be asked to provide permission for presentation materials or recordings to be made available to registered conference participants, where applicable.
Authors will be informed of any additional permissions required before publication or recording.
Eligibility and Submission Conditions
- Submission of an abstract does not constitute registration for ACIS 2027.
- At least one author of an accepted abstract must register for the conference and present the work for it to be included in the final programme.
- Authors may submit multiple abstracts. The organisers may introduce limits on the number of presentations by the same presenting author if necessary to ensure a balanced programme.
- Abstracts are the responsibility of the authors. Authors should ensure that submitted abstracts are accurate, complete, and appropriately proofread.
- Abstracts should not be submitted simultaneously to ACIS 2027 and represented as original work if they have already been published or presented elsewhere, unless this is clearly disclosed and permitted by the conference.
- Changes to authorship or abstract content after submission may be subject to approval by the conference organisers.
- The Scientific Committee reserves the right to move an accepted abstract to a different presentation format or thematic session to support the overall conference programme.
Review and Selection Criteria
All submitted abstracts will undergo review by members of the ACIS Scientific Committee and/or designated abstract reviewers.
Abstracts will be assessed based on the following criteria:
- Relevance to implementation science.
- Clarity and significance.
- Methodological appropriateness
- Originality and contribution
- Implementation relevance
- Contextual relevance
- Clarity of findings or contribution
- Overall quality
The Scientific Committee will consider the author’s preferred presentation format but may allocate an accepted abstract to another format based on the review outcome and programme requirements.
**Decisions of the Scientific Committee regarding abstract acceptance and presentation format will be final.
Key Dates and Notifications
- Abstract submission opens: 15 October 2026
- Deadline for Abstract submission: January 31, 2027
- Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2027
- Presenting author registration deadline: September 2027
Conference dates:
- Pre-conference: 17 November 2027
- Conference: 18-20 November 2027
Notifications regarding abstract acceptance, presentation format, and presentation details will be sent by email to the corresponding author identified during submission.
For questions regarding abstract submission, please contact: