Theme

Insight to Impact: Leveraging evidence & collective expertise to advance public health practice

This theme attends to how bridging or intentionally engaging expertise across sectors, professions, and communities can enrich the impact of public health practices. Furthermore, it emphasizes evidence on or opportunities for integrating evidence, while leveraging innovation and adaptation to elevate quality, scale success and maximize positive population health outcomes.

Concepts aligned with this theme include: inter-sectoral collaboration, interprofessional, multi-disciplinary or cross-functional teamwork, program spread-and-scale, innovation, adaptation, and quality improvement.

TOPHC 2025 aims to strengthen competencies, expand collaboration, and inspire excellence across the spectrum of public health practice. 

Note: While TOPHC Reviewers will not see the name of the authors, TOPHC staff cannot remove all identifiers such as the name of the local public health agencies or name of a city or town. In these situations, it may be possible for an abstract reviewer to infer the identity of the authors. If authors want to remove such risks, they are encouraged to avoid including such information in their submission.