2025 PRESENTATION SUBMISSION PORTAL - Deadline to submit: Extended to Friday, March 7, 2025

The National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference (NHCPC) cordially invites all interested parties to submit presentation proposals that support our conference theme; Strengthening Coalitions Lies Deep in the Heart of Collaboration.

  Presentation Types:

  Conference Tracks:

Track 1: Executive Coalition Leadership   
The success of every coalition hinges on visionary leadership. This track focuses on anecdotal learnings from experienced coalition leaders. The shared expertise will help developing coalitions learn best practices, sustainability tactics and how to implement strategies for capacity building and growth.

Recommended Presentations:

• Coalition leaders who have implemented a successful change in direction or strategy; how they defined or measured their success; and how they made it happen.
• Other non-profit CEOs who have similar organizational structures to healthcare coalitions and have developed successful and sustainable models that can be learned from.  

Track 2: Expanding and Sustaining Coalitions
Coalitions are faced with ongoing challenges - shrinking budgets and resources, staff reductions, increasing workloads and continuously changing public health threats. This track will explore how coalitions are working to combat these challenges through specific case studies and key learnings.

Recommended Presentations:

• Specific stories of coalitions that have grown, thrived and how they accomplished it. 
• New and unique ventures (i.e., products, services, etc.) that coalitions have piloted or permanently implemented that have not only addressed a need but also generated revenue.

Track 3: Emerging Threats
The nature of threats to our national health security continues to change. Threats will continually evolve, and to protect our communities, coalitions are tasked with developing new and inspired solutions to address events like pandemic diseases, the opioid crisis, active shooter emergencies and cybersecurity threats.

Recommended Presentations:

• Stories of cyber-attacks on hospitals, health departments, EMS and emergency management systems (CORE 4). How were they prepared, how did they respond and how did they recover? What lessons were learned as a result and what new plans have been implemented to either prevent or respond to in the future?
• Specific active shooter stories from each of the CORE 4 perspectives.
• Specific weather emergency stories from each of the CORE 4 perspectives.

Track 4: Pediatrics
Children account for 25% of the population and are one of the country’s greatest resources, as they are the future. Being that the needs of children vary drastically from that of adults during a crisis, it is important to ensure that they are accounted for to truly address the total population. This track will focus on a variety of coalition partners. Along with targeted coalition pediatric planning, it will also include how pediatric priorities are integrated into current grants, projects and plans.

Recommended Presentations:

• Pediatric disaster events that had a successful response and/or recovery, why it occurred and how it was executed.
• Response and/or recovery plans that specifically address at risk pediatric patients.

Track 5: Health Equity and Coalition Diversity
Coalition planning should address health equity in both rural and urban communities while supporting at risk demographics within those communities. All impacted by emergency circumstances should be provided equitable and universal access to quality health care and resources. Emergency mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery planning and assistance in all communities should not be impacted by socioeconomic conditions, background, or zip code. Coalitions must strive to partner with and improve the health and safety of all identified individuals in the communities they serve. Coalitions should actively engage in creatively expanding their efforts to include partnerships with agencies, groups, and organizations who can best address inequities and reduce disparities. This will effectively increase diversity and inclusion while strengthening connection and response to their community.

Recommended Presentations:

• Projects addressing single or multiple social determinants of health within a community. This is a broad opportunity that can address those who are at risk due to specific health conditions such as diabetes or heart disease, and live in a neighborhood without access to healthy foods, neighborhood walkways, etc. Given these circumstances, how are they planning prior to, during and post disaster?
• Unique or diverse members that have become an integral part of the coalition planning and/or membership process and the subsequent lives saved. 

If selected, all presenters must adhere to the below requirements:

• Complete all tasks and documentation by the deadline dates outlined in the acceptance email (due to CE requirements no extensions to these dates will be provided).
• Register for the conference. Presenters will receive a 50% discount on the standard registration.
• Presenters will be responsible for all travel and hotel accommodations. 
• Use the provided audio visual equipment (no additional equipment will be provided).
• No changes will be accepted to presentations after the final submission due date.