2025 Annual Institute

Hilton Columbia Center
924 Senate Street
Columbia, SC 29201

June 4 - 7, 2025

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Intended Audience

Public health and community health nursing educators, public health leaders, public health nurses, and students and partners interested in public health, health equity, population health, social determinants of health, and other public health issues.

Purpose

To provide a scholarly and supportive community for those committed to excellence and innovation in community/public/population health nursing education, research, and practice.

2025 Conference Objectives

  1. Derive innovative pedagogical approaches to community/public/population health nursing education;
  2. Debate the implications and influence of community/public health nursing education on current and emerging academic program and workforce needs;
  3. Explore the effects of historical, social, and physical contexts on population with a focus on how health equity intersects with these contexts to shape health outcomes and disparities; 
  4. Highlight new science and evidence to support best practices in community/public health nursing education and practice;
  5. Examine innovative community/academic partnerships and their impact on nursing education and workforce development; and
  6. Critique the implications and effects of recent social and political events on community/public/population health education.

Submit Your Abstract for the 2025 ACHNE Annual Institute: Shaping Futures in Community/Public Health Education & Supporting Health Equity

Columbia, SC, June 4 - 7, 2025

Start Your Submission

Download the ACHNE 2025 Annual Institute Abstract Solicitation and Instructions here.

The Deadline to submit your abstract is November 20, 2024. 

Abstract submitters will be notified of decisions by December 20, 2024.  Visit www.ACHNE.org/institute for more information.

Abstracts are invited for presentations on original research, practice-based research, innovative teaching strategies, and other topics related to the conference theme. Abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of experts and selected based on their relevance to the conference theme, originality, and potential to contribute to the field of community/public/population health nursing.

Members of all levels of ACHNE are invited to submit your abstract.

Instructions

Complete and submit one submission per presentation. Please indicate your preference for a podium presentation (15 minutes), symposium (30 minutes), plenary presentation (60 minutes), or ePoster. Please ensure the abstract is submitted completely, indicated by a completion message and abstract submission summary email immediately following the submission.

The submitter will receive confirmation of receipt. Revisions to abstracts cannot be accepted after the deadline of November 20, 2024. Late submissions will not be accepted. *Communications will be directed to the submitter only.

Required Components

Required components:

  1. Presentation title
  2. Lead presenter and abstract contact name, credentials, job title or role (e.g., student), organization, address, phone number, email, (*All communication about the abstract will be sent only to the submitter only).
  3. Additional presenters, job title or role (e.g., student), organization, address, phone number and email (up to 5 additional presenters)
  4. Short biographical sketches for each presenter
  5. Conflict of Interest fields completed for all authors as directed by the submission form
  6. Preferred session format (podium, symposium, plenary, or ePoster)
  7. Learning outcomes (up to 5), using ANCC’s revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
  8. Abstract text should include these components (500 word maximum)
  9. Background
  10. Purpose
  11. Methods
  12. Results
  13. Conclusions
  14. Implications/relevance for public health
  15. Brief description of session or poster that will appeal to attendees and may be used for the conference program (no more than 50 words)
  16. Target audience (what type of professional would be most interested in your session/poster)
  17. Level of session/poster (beginning, intermediate, advanced)
  18. Special accommodations needed for presenters

You will not be able to submit your abstract if there is any missing information in your submission.

If accepted for a plenary presentation, ACHNE will request your PowerPoint a few weeks prior to the conference. Symposium and Podium presenters will be required to upload their pre-recorded presentation prior to the conference in addition to presenting in person.  Posters will be created in our ePoster platform Learning Toolbox and authors will be expected to attend in person on the day of their poster reception.

All accepted abstracts are expected to have at least one author with ACHNE membership, and at least one presenter attend the Annual Institute in person. Paid Registration is REQUIRED to attend the Annual Institute.  Virtual presentations are not available for the 2025 AI. 

Please feel free to contact the ACHNE office with any questions:  info@ACHNE.org or 937-586-3727

2025 Annual Institute Review Criteria