The North America Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC24) co-hosted with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), IFIC Canada, the North America Centre for Integrated Care and the International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) and the Health System Performance Network at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto will take place in the Westin Calgary, Canada from 15-17 October 2024.
With the overarching theme ‘Creating Health and Wellbeing through Integrated Care’, the conference will bring together leaders, researchers, clinicians, managers, community representatives, patients and caregivers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and care. The conference is kindly supported by our premier partners Health Standards Organization and Accreditation Canada.
The conference will be organised around three core themes, 1) Human-level transformation for collective impact 2) Community-enabled population health and wellbeing and 3) Integrated teams and systems: navigating complexity and change. Each theme demonstrates components of IFIC 9 Pillars of Integrated care.
There are also three cross-cutting priorities that are central to the NACIC24 conference. The areas include 1) health equity 2) person and community centered partnership and 3) evaluation. These areas are pivotal to research and practice to advance integrated care and population health. Rather than denote as an individual conference theme, these priorities cut across and are embedded within each of the core themes. Further the first two priority areas of health equity and patient and caregiver partnership will be explicitly considered within the program planning and abstract review and selection process.
The International Scientific Committee (ICS), is now seeking abstracts of good practice in research, policy, practice and education from around the world. This is expected to be a competitive process so presenters are asked to take time in understanding the guidelines and to follow the process carefully. We are particularly keen to hear from our colleagues across Canada to celebrate the great achievements that have been made in progressing people-centred integrated care across the region.
NACIC24 is co-designed with patients and caregivers and achieves Patients Includeddesignation. Special consideration is given to papers that demonstrate active people involvement and engagement in either or all of design, implementation and evaluation. Patient and caregivers attend the conference for free, but we cannot cover accommodation and travel costs. We encourage papers from patient and caregivers, but also suggest that health and care researchers and practitioners should encourage patient and caregiver partners to co-present where appropriate and fund travel and accommodation costs if possible.
If you have any questions please do get in touch and we will do our best to assist you.
Call for papers is now open, deadline for submissions is Friday, 31 May.
For more information see here.